Xconomy

APRIL 16, 2018

The Adecco Group, the global staffing and worker training giant, has inked a $412.5 million agreement to acquire General Assembly, a tech training and career development company that offers courses online and at 20 campuses worldwide.

Training 59

Training Incubator Demand Course 59

Xconomy

MAY 17, 2018

Arevo’s technology mix—which combines automated printing equipment with Web-based software and customized raw materials—exemplifies the changes in 3D printing since the days when it served as a mere tool for crafting prototypes and as a consumer novelty. Instead, 3D printing startups have trained their eyes.

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Training Web Tool Software 68

Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR. René Pinnell says he and his wife Selena Pinnell were “blown away” by the virtual reality projects their friends were creating in 2014, so they looked for an entrepreneurial niche that would allow them to support such artists.

Content 71

Content Training Design Startup 71

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. We took the recent round, because Jake and I feel very passionately about our social missions, and, about four years ago, we started developing the software to create software. But, that's also why we are in software.

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Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

Investing in affordable education and training at all levels of society would prepare people for meaningful work, and provide compensation that could help reduce social inequities and divisiveness. In Sweden, citizens and entrepreneurs gladly pay taxes because of all the personal and social benefits those taxes produce. Need more convincing?

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Entrepreneur Education Training Invest 40

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

And finally, we have a story by Sarah Schmid Stevenson looking at Lessonly, an Indianapolis-based corporate training and education startup. In the near future, we will have a feature piece looking at some of the San Francisco area’s biggest edtech startups, and how things have been going with them.

Education 40

Education Newsletter Training High Tech 40

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. They have much more important things that putting in an RTLS system--they've got electronic medical records, infection control, and other software that are more important.

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Xconomy

JULY 13, 2016

Better edtech, perhaps in the form of next-generation MOOCs and other online training, might help people beset by the skills gap enter the high-tech workforce, which might help to slow rising inequality. But in the short term, videos and social media can also foment even more violence, as we saw in Dallas.

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Social Media High Tech Media Organization 40

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

The company is the provider of the cloud-based collaboration software Central Desktop, which revolutionizes how people connect and share information to drive profitable business results. socalTECH.com is the most respected and most read sources of information on Southern California’s technology and venture capital industry.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78