Kno
Encyclopedia
Kno, Inc. is a software company in Silicon Valley
that sells into the education market. The company is working with major academic publishers including McGraw-Hill
, John Wiley & Sons
, Pearson
, and Cengage Learning
to make their textbooks available to Kno users.
. Kno's largest investor is venture capitalist and Netscape
creator Marc Andreessen
. The Company first announced a line of tablet computers at the D: All Things Digital conference in June of 2010. In April of 2011, the Company announced that it had licensed its hardware design to Intel and would focus on developing software "to make learning engaging, effective, and social for students."
, John Wiley & Sons
, Pearson
, and Cengage Learning
will be making their textbooks available for the Company's beta program.
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations...
that sells into the education market. The company is working with major academic publishers including McGraw-Hill
McGraw-Hill
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., is a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, education, publishing, broadcasting, and business services...
, John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing and markets its products to professionals and consumers, students and instructors in higher education, and researchers and practitioners in scientific, technical, medical, and...
, Pearson
Pearson PLC
Pearson plc is a global media and education company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is both the largest education company and the largest book publisher in the world, with consumer imprints including Penguin, Dorling Kindersley and Ladybird...
, and Cengage Learning
Cengage Learning
Cengage Learning is a publisher of print and digital information services for the academic, professional and library markets, and delivers customized learning solutions for colleges, universities, professors, students, libraries, government agencies, corporations and professionals around the...
to make their textbooks available to Kno users.
History
Kno was founded in May of 2009 by Babur Habib and Osman RashidOsman Rashid
Osman Rashid, is an executive and entrepreneur in the field of education technology. He was co-founder and CEO of online textbook rental leader Chegg, and also co-founder and CEO of Kno, Inc., a digital education platform company....
. Kno's largest investor is venture capitalist and Netscape
Netscape (web browser)
Netscape 7 was a series of proprietary cross-platform Internet suites created by Netscape Communications Corporation and then in-house by AOL to continue the Netscape series after Netscape 6. There were three main editions released from the Netscape 7 series; being Netscape 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2...
creator Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, investor, software engineer, and multi-millionaire best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, and co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation. He founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard...
. The Company first announced a line of tablet computers at the D: All Things Digital conference in June of 2010. In April of 2011, the Company announced that it had licensed its hardware design to Intel and would focus on developing software "to make learning engaging, effective, and social for students."
Digital Textbook Catalog
Kno has reported that McGraw-HillMcGraw-Hill
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., is a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, education, publishing, broadcasting, and business services...
, John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing and markets its products to professionals and consumers, students and instructors in higher education, and researchers and practitioners in scientific, technical, medical, and...
, Pearson
Pearson PLC
Pearson plc is a global media and education company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is both the largest education company and the largest book publisher in the world, with consumer imprints including Penguin, Dorling Kindersley and Ladybird...
, and Cengage Learning
Cengage Learning
Cengage Learning is a publisher of print and digital information services for the academic, professional and library markets, and delivers customized learning solutions for colleges, universities, professors, students, libraries, government agencies, corporations and professionals around the...
will be making their textbooks available for the Company's beta program.