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Turn on the Subtitles
by: Startacus Admin ~ 14th August 2018"If you want to teach a nation to read: Just turn on the subtitles". This simple advice might just help make kids become proficient readers...
Oli Barrett MBE, amongst many other things, co-founded StartUp Britain, Tenner, and social innovation agency Cospa. Tenner, for example (now run by Young Enterprise), has challenged over 250,000 school pupils to see what they can achieve in one month,...
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Bookaxe chats to Startacus
by: Startacus Admin ~ 1st August 2018Bookaxe was founded by an internationally published author and a data whizz. Focused on matching readers to their perfect books, we previously featured Bookaxe on Startacus earlier this year, so were delighted to catch up with co-founder Lucy Cruickshanks at Digital DNA '18, where Bookaxe were pitching.
Bookaxe is a book discovery platform that uses machine learning techniques to better...
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PowerLinks powers on with it's programmatic native advertising platform
by: Startacus Admin ~ 14th February 2018
PowerLinks, a platform that enables brands & media businesses to adopt & scale native advertising, has secured a £4.58m Series A investment.
PowerLinks, an emerging leader in a new generation of advertising platforms connecting advertisers and publishers in a data rich marketplace, which processes over 6 billion auctions each day, has just annouced it has raised £4.58m ($6.1...
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EdTech Startup Perlego branded the “Spotify for student textbooks”
by: Startacus Admin ~ 16th January 2017EdTech Startup Perlego has been branded the “Spotify for student textbooks”. With the aim of making educational content more scalable and affordable, we spoke to Founder Gauthier Van Malderen to find out more about their subscription service that has 'class' intentions...Tell us in 140 characters or less what Perlego aims to do.
Perlego which has been branded ...
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