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Pear Deck Raises $4M to Jazz Up Digital Presentations in the Classroom

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Pear Deck works on most web browsers on desktop and mobile devices. Prior to this venture, Eynon-Lynch and two other co-founders developed an online gradebook that was acquired by Haiku Learning in 2013. Haiku Learning, in turn, was bought by Powerschool in 2016.) Sorry, Internet Explorer.)

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PowerSchool Buys Chalkable, Tops $200 Million in Acquisition Spending

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Chalkable was formerly called STI, a Mobile, Ala.-based The company raised $3 million in 2013 and acquired three companies: Learning Earnings, Spiral Universe (an SIS provider) and Chalkable, which initially aimed to create an educational app store where teachers can purchase and deploy apps.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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He was an instructor in one of several high-profile Coursera failures back in 2013. Winnie is a new mobile app that, according to Techcrunch , “helps parents find family-friendly places, share their experiences.” PowerSchool has acquired the LMS Haiku Learning for an undisclosed sum. Remember Richard McKenzie?