(2010-06-15) Kno Tablet Student

Kno has announced plans to launch a 2-piece Tablet aimed at the College Education market.

Sept15 update: Marc Andreessen has invested.

Sept30 update: they're also planning a single-screen version (like an IPad).

Feb21'2011 update: they're hoping to sell of the hardware business and focus on the software side. Sources said the shift to deliver Text-Book and other student-related delivery system would be a better path for all that investment money, since Kno has established a wide range of partnerships with colleges and universities.

Apr08'2011 - Intel's VC arm and AdvancePublications (Conde Nast's parent) just invested $30M in them. In addition to the funding from its venture capital arm, Intel itself will license the hardware design of Kno, which will now focus on its software to manage the devices that are aimed at the college market. Intel will not manufacture tablets, but take its hardware blueprints and share it with their OEM partners.

Nov'2013: Intel has bought them. The entire Kno team will be joining Intel as a result of the acquisition — with one notable exception. Osman Rashid, the co-founder and CEO (who is also a co-founder of Chegg), will not be joining the company. His plans after the exit remain unclear; we’re trying to find out and will update when we learn more. “He was definitely the figurehead behind it,” John Galvin admitted later to TC in an interview, but ultimately the two did not see eye to eye about the direction of Kno under Intel. “[Staying on] was something that Osman and I talked about early in the process,” he said. “But where I wanted to take Kno and where Osman wanted to take it were two different things. His direction was to continue with a North American focus and I want to go international; and for us to go international, that’s about integrating with Intel’s sales teams, working on bringing this to new markets.”... With this acquisition, it essentially becomes the software platform for Intel’s hardware shell. It’s the same motivation that arguably led Amazon to acquire an education company, TenMarks, last month.