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Tutor.com
Tutor.com is an online tutoring company founded in 1998 that connects students to tutors in online classrooms. Since 2022, the company has been owned by Primavera Capital Group. History Tutor.com was founded in 1998 by George Cigale. In its early years, the company focused on partnerships with libraries across the United States, which would provide online tutoring to its clients. Tutor.com expanded into multiple markets, including universities, employee benefits, the United States Department of Defense, and additional direct consumer services. In January 2013, InterActive Corp (IAC) announced the purchase of Tutor.com, for an undisclosed amount. In August 2014, IAC's former subsidiary and Tutor.com's former parent Match Group bought test-preparation service The Princeton Review and combined it with its Tutor.com educational business. In March 2017, Match Group sold The Princeton Review, along with Tutor.com, to ST Unitas, a Korean education company. In January 2022, Primave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Princeton Review
The Princeton Review is an education services company providing tutoring, test preparation and admission resources for students. It was founded in 1981, and since that time has worked with over 400 million students. Services are delivered by 4,000+ tutors and teachers in the United States, Canada and international offices in 21 countries.; online resources; more than 150 print and digital books published by Penguin Random House; and dozens of categories of school rankings. The Princeton Review's affiliate division, Tutor.com, provides online tutoring services. The Princeton Review is headquartered in New York City and is privately held. The Princeton Review is not associated with Princeton University. Corporate history The Princeton Review was founded in 1981 by John Katzman, who—shortly after graduating from Princeton University—began tutoring students for the SAT from his Upper West Side apartment. A short time later, Katzman teamed up with Adam Robinson, an Oxford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Online Tutoring
Online tutoring is the process of tutoring in an online, virtual, or networked, environment, in which teachers and learners participate from separate physical locations. Aside from space, participants can also be separated by time. Online tutoring is practiced using many different approaches for distinct sets of users. The distinctions are in content and user interface, as well as in tutoring styles and tutor-training methodologies. Definitions associated with online tutoring vary widely, reflecting the ongoing evolution of the technology, the refinement and variation in online learning methodology, and the interactions of the organizations that deliver online tutoring services with the institutions, individuals, and learners that employ the services. This Internet-based service is a form of micropublishing. Concept and definitions An institution, website or individual can offer online tutoring through an internal or external tutoring website or through a learning management sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IAC (company)
IAC Inc. is an American holding company that owns brands across 100 countries, mostly in media and Internet. The company originated in 1996 as HSN Inc. as the holding company of Home Shopping Network and USA Network before changing its name to USA Networks, Inc. in 1999 and its television assets were sold to Vivendi in 2002. Those are now owned today by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast. The company is incorporated under the Delaware General Corporation Law but is headquartered in New York City. Joey Levin, who previously led the company's search and applications segment, has served as chief executive officer since June 2015. History 1980s and 1990s IAC was established in 1986 as Silver King Broadcasting Company, as part of a plan to increase viewership of the Home Shopping Network (HSN) by purchasing local television stations. By 1988, Silver King had bought 11 stations for about $220 million. The company was later renamed as HSN Communications, Inc., and then Silver Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandy Ginsberg
Mandy Ginsberg is an American businesswoman and executive who served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Match Group from 2017 to 2020. Early life and education Ginsberg was born in 1969/1970. She grew up in Dallas, where she was educated at the Hockaday School. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992 and subsequently obtained an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Career In her early career Ginsberg was Vice President of Consumer Technology for Edelman Public Relations Worldwide, and subsequently became Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at JDA Software. In 2006, Ginsberg joined IAC, where she has since worked in different positions. In 2008 she became executive vice-president and general manager of Match Group’s North American operations and in 2010 was nominated as CEO of the Match Group Americas, where she continued to focused the Match U.S. brand, Match Affinity Brands, OkCupid, PlentyOfFish, ParPerfeit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primavera Capital Group
Primavera Capital Group (Primavera; ) is a Chinese investment firm with offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Silicon Valley and Singapore. It is considered one of China's leading investment firms with notable investments in companies such as Alibaba, Ant Group, ByteDance, XPeng, Yum China and The Princeton Review. In 2023, ''Private Equity International'', ranked Primavera as the fifth largest private equity firm in Asia based on total fundraising over the most recent five-year period. History Fred Hu was previously a partner and the chairman of Greater China at Goldman Sachs. In 2010, Hu and several other managing directors at Goldman Sachs founded Primavera. The firm primarily invests in China but in recent years has diversified into Southeast Asia and North America. Institutional investors of the firm include AIA Group, Bank of China, MetLife, Pennsylvania State Employees' Retirement System, State Street Corporation, Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company and TSMC. Primave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Cotton
Thomas Bryant Cotton (born May 13, 1977) is an American politician and United States Army, Army veteran serving since 2015 as the Seniority in the United States Senate, junior United States Senate, United States senator from Arkansas. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he is the Republican Conference Chairman of the United States Senate, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference and third-ranking Senate Republican. He also chairs the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senate Intelligence Committee. From 2013 to 2015, Cotton served in the United States House of Representatives, representing Arkansas's 4th congressional district. He was elected to the Senate in 2014 United States Senate election in Arkansas, 2014, defeating two-term Democratic Party (United States), Democratic incumbent Mark Pryor. A staunch conservative, Cotton is known for his War hawk, hawkish views on foreign affairs, especially toward China, Iran, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chronicle Of Higher Education
''The Chronicle of Higher Education'' is an American newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and student affairs professionals, including staff members and administrators. A subscription is required to read some articles. ''The Chronicle'' is based in Washington, D.C., and is a major news service covering U.S. academia. It is published every weekday online and appears weekly in print except for every other week in May, June, July, and August and the last three weeks in December. In print, ''The Chronicle'' is published in two sections: Section A with news, section B with job listings, and ''The Chronicle Review,'' a magazine of arts and ideas. It also publishes Arts & Letters Daily. History In 1957, Corbin Gwaltney, founder and editor of the alumni magazine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, joined with editors from magazines of several other colleges and universities for an editorial project to investigate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Today Show
''Today'' (also called ''The Today Show'') is an American morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and after years of broadcasting it is fifth on the list of longest-running American television series. Originally a two-hour program airing weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., it expanded to Sundays in 1987 and Saturdays in 1992. The weekday broadcast expanded to three hours in 2000, and to four hours in 2007 (though over time, the third and fourth hours became distinct entities). ''Today''s dominance was virtually unchallenged by the other networks until the late 1980s, when it was overtaken by ABC's ''Good Morning America''. ''Today'' retook the Nielsen ratings lead the week of December 11, 1995, and held onto that position for 852 consecutive weeks until the week of April 9, 2012, when ''Good Morning Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvan Learning
Sylvan Learning, Inc. (formerly Sylvan Learning Corporation) consists of franchised and corporate supplemental learning centers which provide personalized instruction in reading, writing, mathematics, study skills, homework support, and test preparation for college entrance and state exams. Some centers also offer STEM courses in robotics and coding. Sylvan provides personalized learning programs and primarily serves students in primary and secondary education. History Sylvan Learning began in Portland, Oregon in 1979 at the Sylvan Hill Medical Center Building. It was founded by former school teacher W. Berry Fowler, who had also worked with the educational company The Reading Game. By 1983, Sylvan had dozens of franchises and moved its headquarters to Bellevue, WA. In 1986, having over 500 franchises, Sylvan went public on the NASDAQ exchange and used funds to develop corporate learning centers in key cities. By July 1987, KinderCare, then based in Montgomery, AL, owned th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
InstaEDU
Chegg Tutors (formerly known as InstaEDU) was an online tutoring company that matched students seeking help with online tutors. Students could receive help either on-demand or by scheduling a lesson. History Chegg Tutors was founded in 2011 as InstaEDU and launched into public beta in May 2012. At that time, the company also announced that it had raised $1.1M in venture capital funding from The Social+Capital Partnership. Two of the company's co-founders had previously run an in-home tutoring company called Cardinal Scholars. After running Cardinal Scholars they got the idea for an online tutoring company—InstaEDU. In July 2012 they sold Cardinal Scholars to Course Hero. In August 2013, the service announced it had raised a $4 million Series A round of funding from Battery Ventures. At that time, the InstaEDU service also emerged from beta. On 3 June 2014, Chegg announced that it purchased InstaEDU for $30 million in cash, and that it planned to keep the InstaEDU service ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xconomy
Xconomy was a media company providing news on business, life sciences, and technology{{cite web , title=Company Overview of Xconomy, Inc. , url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=36215051 , publisher=Bloomberg Business , date=nd , access-date=19 July 2015 focusing on the regions of Boston, Boulder/Denver, Detroit, New York City, Raleigh-Durham, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle. The website was launched in June 2007 by founders Robert Buderi and Rebecca Zacks.{{cite news , author=Rafat Ali , date=February 11, 2009 , title=Business News Blog Network XConomy Gets Second Round Funding , url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/business-news-blog-network-xconomy-gets-second-round-funding/ , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023073713/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/25/paidcontent/main4631868.shtml , archive-date=23 October 2009 , publisher=CBS News , agency=paidcontent.org , url-status=live , access-date=30 June 2021 Xconomy content ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
