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EdTech Trends: The Multi Billion Dollar Remittance Market
For developing nations like the Philippines, remittances from oversea workers play an important economic role. According to data from the country’ central bank, remittances made through bank transfers...
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EdTech Funding Asia: Fliplingo, PhilSmile, Wanxue, Yuantiku and Taamkru
Our EdTech Funding Coverage is brought to you by Digital Education. In this Asia edition of EdTech Funding News we cover rounds that took place in June and July. Fliplingo, a translation service for...
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EdTech News Europe: TES Resources, LEO Learning and ABA English
Here is our weekly rundown of the edtech news covered by our sister site EDUKWEST Europe. This week we got news from TES Global, announcing that the next version of TES Resources will introduce paid...
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There are over 60 potential EdTech Seed Orphans in the US
According to venture capital database CB Insights there are currently 1686 tech startups at risk of becoming “seed orphans” in the United States. Over 60 of these startups are in the education and...
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Chegg outsources Textbook Distribution to Ingram in its Transition to Digital...
Chegg announced a strategic partnership with book distributor Ingram along with its second quarter 2014 results on Monday. With results better than expected and a partnership that will immediately...
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TES Global acquires Digital Lesson Platform Blendspace
Cross-published on EDUKWEST Europe. TES Global announced that it has acquired San Francisco-based edtech startup Blendspace, a platform that makes it easy for teachers to create digital lessons...
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Qualcomm works on a Blueprint for Mobile Education to Offset Shrinking...
Chipmaker Qualcomm announced the acquisition of mobile learning platform EmpoweredU for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2011, EmpoweredU pivoted and changed names several times before settling on its...
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EdTech Trends: School Bus Tracking and Management Apps
It is a thin line being a protective parent and becoming overly involved in your child’s life. For some time now educators have been dealing with those so called helicopter parents who pay extremely...
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Former Etsy COO Adam Freed new CEO at Teachers pay Teachers
One year after John Yoo took over as CEO of Teachers pay Teachers from its founder Paul Edelman, the teacher resource marketplace shuffles its leadership again. Adam Freed, who joined TpT’s board of...
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Edmodo enters IPO zone with $30 million Series D led by Index Ventures
Edmodo has raised a $30 million venture round led by Index Partners, bringing the total amount of funding raised to $87 million according to Xconomy. Investors participating in the four venture rounds...
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Overview: Three EdTech Startups in 500 Startups 10th Batch
500 Startups announced its 10th accelerator batch last week. It will be the second batch in San Francisco with 28 startups from across the globe participating. Ten of the startups did not raise money...
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Can a Kickstarter campaign #saveedshelf? Interview with edshelf co-founder...
Last week we wrote about the 60+ edtech startups that are in risk of becoming seed orphans and therefore face an uncertain future. edshelf, an imagine K12 alumnus, is on the brink of shutting down but...
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Junction Education launches a Flipboard for College Courses
Today Junction Education, a startup founded by former McGraw-Hill executive Vineet Madan, officially launched. Junction Education aims to provide instructors and students with an easy to use course...
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Desire2Learn raises $85 million Series B for International Growth
Canada-based Desire2Learn raised an $85 million Series B led by a large institutional asset manager with participation from Columbus Nova Technology Partners, Graham Holdings, Four Rivers Group, Aurion...
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Gig Economy Marketplace Fiverr raises $30 million Series C
Fiverr, an Israel-based startup and one of the drivers behind the so called Gig Economy, raised a $30 million Series C from Bessemer Venture Partners, Accel Partners, Qumra Capital and additional...
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Overview: The Semi-Finalists of the Robin Hood Foundation College Success Prize
The Robin Hood Foundation announced the semi-finalists of its College Success Prize. Through the competition, the Robin Hood Foundation aims to find scalable and technology-enabled tools to improve the...
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EdTech Funding July 2014: WeSpeke, OpenEd, MamaBear, ClassOwl
Our EdTech Funding Coverage is brought to you by Digital Education. In this EdTech Funding Roundup we take a look at investments we haven’t covered in our regular news rundown in July. WeSpeke, a...
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EDUKWEST Live: Multilingualism in Europe
I am happy to announce that we will be hosting our second event of the year in London. It will be a half-day event starting in the afternoon on September 17th. We’re excited to have Macmillan Digital...
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Radically Re-thinking Language Assessment
Editor's Note: This post is co-authored by Paul Gollash, founder and CEO of Voxy and Katharine Nielson, chief education officer at Voxy. English language learning is fraught with ineffective products...
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EdTech Trends: Myanmar
It is quite fascinating to follow Myanmar’s rise as a tech, edtech and thus startup destination in general these days given that the reign of the military junta only ended in 2011. As Myanmar is now...
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