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Chegg Ditches Ingram for FedEx and Eyes International Growth

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Back in 2014, more competition from Amazon had led the Santa Clara, Calif-based Chegg to a deal with book distributor Ingram Content Group. Ingram bought Chegg’s textbook inventory to sell and distribute, and the companies shared the revenues. The Ingram deal was framed as part of Chegg’s strategy to 100 percent digital revenue.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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Byju’s Becomes an Edtech ‘Decacorn’ After Fundraise from Mary Meeker’s Bond Capital

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That’s the industry lingo for companies valued at $10 billion or more. It’s an ultra-exclusive club of two dozen companies across the world, according to CB Insights. Byju’s is the newest member—thanks to an investment from technology investment firm Bond, which values the company at $10.5 billion.

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2022 Scholarship Owl Review – Is Scholarship Owl Legit?

Fractus Learning

Many companies offer employee family scholarships. There are several alternatives, such as Scholly, Scholarships360, and Chegg Scholarships. Chegg Scholarships. Chegg Scholarships is like Scholarships360. Minority scholarships can be their own thing, or they can be a subset within need-based or merit-based scholarships.

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More Big Bucks for Tutoring Companies: Varsity Tutors Raises $50M in Series C Funding

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One market analyst projects the global market for private tutoring will hit $227 billion by 2022. In the heartland of America, one company is raising big bucks in a bid to capture this lucrative market. Louis-based company’s $50 million Series B round, which closed in November 2015.

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Look Who’s Talking—Michael Trucano from the Brookings Institution on AI in education

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I mean, I get, you know, pitch decks from companies. I’m going to use Chegg PT to do this. Well, I mean, I think we all collectively turned to wrap our head around this and you know and and whether it’s, you know, sort of oversold in the short run, undersold in the long term. I mean, this is going to be this stuff.