Kohlberg Ventures http://kohlbergventures.com Kohlberg Ventures Tue, 01 May 2012 20:24:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Akademos Launches Textbook Adoption Tool, an Online Portal for Selecting the Best Textbooks Based on Quality and Value http://kohlbergventures.com/2012/04/akademos-launches-textbook-adoption-tool-an-online-portal-for-selecting-the-best-textbooks-based-on-quality-and-value-read-more-httpwww-newstimes-combusinesspress-releasesarticleakademos-lau/ http://kohlbergventures.com/2012/04/akademos-launches-textbook-adoption-tool-an-online-portal-for-selecting-the-best-textbooks-based-on-quality-and-value-read-more-httpwww-newstimes-combusinesspress-releasesarticleakademos-lau/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:57:18 +0000 admin http://kohlbergventures.com/?p=644 Easy Discovery of Textbooks with Faculty Peer Reviews from a Comprehensive Library of Learning Materials

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Akademos, Inc., a leading provider of integrated online bookstores and marketplaces for educational institutions, announced today that it has launched the Akademos Textbook Adoption Tool, which is the most comprehensive online [...]]]> http://kohlbergventures.com/2012/04/akademos-launches-textbook-adoption-tool-an-online-portal-for-selecting-the-best-textbooks-based-on-quality-and-value-read-more-httpwww-newstimes-combusinesspress-releasesarticleakademos-lau/feed/ 0 London Book Fair 2012: Open Road Launches International Program with Mondadori http://kohlbergventures.com/2012/04/london-book-fair-2012-open-road-launches-international-program-with-mondadori/ http://kohlbergventures.com/2012/04/london-book-fair-2012-open-road-launches-international-program-with-mondadori/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:42:13 +0000 admin http://kohlbergventures.com/?p=630 Open Road Integrated Media has teamed with Italian publishing giant Mondadori to digitize, distribute and market English-language e-book versions of titles from Mondadori’s catalogue. Mondadori is Open Road’s first foreign publishing  partner and kicks off the company’s international publishing partner program. “Open Road is committed to working with international publishers to [...]]]> http://kohlbergventures.com/2012/04/london-book-fair-2012-open-road-launches-international-program-with-mondadori/feed/ 0 Scripps Networks Interactive acquires RealGravity Inc. http://kohlbergventures.com/2012/01/scripps-networks-interactive-acquires-realgravity-inc/ http://kohlbergventures.com/2012/01/scripps-networks-interactive-acquires-realgravity-inc/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:27:27 +0000 admin http://kohlbergventures.com/?p=626  

January 31, 2012. 

Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. (NYSE: SNI), seeking to enhance the digital video capabilities of its growing lifestyle media businesses, has acquired RealGravity Inc., a California-based company that specializes in online video publishing technologies.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Founded in 2009, RealGravity [...]]]> http://kohlbergventures.com/2012/01/scripps-networks-interactive-acquires-realgravity-inc/feed/ 0 Author of her own destiny http://kohlbergventures.com/2011/12/author-of-her-own-destiny/ http://kohlbergventures.com/2011/12/author-of-her-own-destiny/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:09:49 +0000 admin http://kohlbergventures.com/?p=619  

By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson

The solitary bookcase in Jane Friedman’s SoHo office is half empty. Her home library has 10,000 volumes, she says, but after a 40-year publishing career that saw her rise from being a Dictaphone typist at Random House to chief executive of HarperCollins, she rarely picks up [...]]]> http://kohlbergventures.com/2011/12/author-of-her-own-destiny/feed/ 0 Vintners’ Alliances’ Winery Partners Sell 14% More Wine http://kohlbergventures.com/2011/12/vintners-alliances-winery-partners-sell-14-more-wine/ http://kohlbergventures.com/2011/12/vintners-alliances-winery-partners-sell-14-more-wine/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:47:52 +0000 admin http://kohlbergventures.com/?p=608

Vintners’ Alliance, a marketing technology and database provider for super premium wineries, announced that wineries utilizing its Intent Conversion service received, on average, a 14% increase in their October eCommerce sales.  Read more.

]]> http://kohlbergventures.com/2011/12/vintners-alliances-winery-partners-sell-14-more-wine/feed/ 0 ClearEdge Designs Fuel Cells To Replace Power From The Grid http://kohlbergventures.com/2011/12/clearedge-designs-fuel-cells-to-replace-power-from-the-grid/ http://kohlbergventures.com/2011/12/clearedge-designs-fuel-cells-to-replace-power-from-the-grid/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:12:01 +0000 admin http://kohlbergventures.com/?p=596 Fuel cells have long promised to deliver a cleaner source of power, but they are far from commonplace. But government efforts in recent years to reduce emissions by subsidizing cleaner energy generation are boosting fuel cells’ acceptance and benefiting companies such as ClearEdge Power, which on Tuesday launched two new systems designed to make [...]]]> http://kohlbergventures.com/2011/12/clearedge-designs-fuel-cells-to-replace-power-from-the-grid/feed/ 0 Nine Titles Join Alice Walker Ebook Collection From Open Road Integrated Media http://kohlbergventures.com/2011/12/nine-titles-join-alice-walker-ebook-collection-from-open-road-integrated-media/ http://kohlbergventures.com/2011/12/nine-titles-join-alice-walker-ebook-collection-from-open-road-integrated-media/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:08:12 +0000 admin http://kohlbergventures.com/?p=591 Open Road Integrated Media announces the ebook publication of nine titles by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, including novels The Third Life of Grange Copeland and Meridian; poetry collections Revolutionary Petunias, Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, and Once; short story collections You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down and In Love & Trouble; and essay [...]]]> http://kohlbergventures.com/2011/12/nine-titles-join-alice-walker-ebook-collection-from-open-road-integrated-media/feed/ 0 Travel and Leisure: America’s Coolest Coffee Houses http://kohlbergventures.com/2011/12/travel-and-leisure-americas-coolest-coffee-houses/ http://kohlbergventures.com/2011/12/travel-and-leisure-americas-coolest-coffee-houses/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:01:40 +0000 admin http://kohlbergventures.com/?p=584 Blue Bottle is one of the major shrines of the national coffee circuit. The shop at Mint Plaza is small, with big windows. Inside it’s like a mad-scientist’s laboratory whose devices are designed to torture the bean and make it yield its secrets.  Read more.

 

]]> http://kohlbergventures.com/2011/12/travel-and-leisure-americas-coolest-coffee-houses/feed/ 0 Portland Community College Celebrates Commissioning of Combined Heat and Power Fuel Cell System http://kohlbergventures.com/2011/10/portland-community-college-celebrates-commissioning-of-combined-heat-and-power-fuel-cell-system/ http://kohlbergventures.com/2011/10/portland-community-college-celebrates-commissioning-of-combined-heat-and-power-fuel-cell-system/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:32:17 +0000 admin http://kohlbergventures.com/?p=569 U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today applauded the commissioning of a combined heat and power (CHP) fuel cell system at Portland Community College in Oregon. The CHP fuel cell system will help Portland Community College save on its energy bills and help achieve its energy efficiency and sustainability goals. Students at the College will [...]]]> http://kohlbergventures.com/2011/10/portland-community-college-celebrates-commissioning-of-combined-heat-and-power-fuel-cell-system/feed/ 0 ClearEdge Power completes $73.5 million financing round http://kohlbergventures.com/2011/08/clearedge-power-completes-73-5-million-financing-round/ http://kohlbergventures.com/2011/08/clearedge-power-completes-73-5-million-financing-round/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:09:16 +0000 kohlbergventures http://kohlbergventures.wordpress.com/?p=303 http://kohlbergventures.com/2011/08/clearedge-power-completes-73-5-million-financing-round/feed/ 0