Koobits

KooBits designs and builds digital products for children and educators. KooBits was founded in 2007 by current CEO Stanley Han, with Professor Sam Ge Shuzhi and Dr Chen Xiangdong.[1] The trio saw an opportunity in the rapid growth of the ebook industry and decided to focus on creating software for interactive enhanced ebooks. Currently, KooBits is focused on education technology for primary mathematics learning.

KooBits
IndustryEducation, Information and Communication Technology, e-Learning
Founded2007
HeadquartersSingapore
ProductsKooBits ProblemSums, KooBits Editor, KooBits 4.0
Websitewww.koobits.com

History

In 2008, KooBits was the winner [2] of the Asia Pacific ICT Awards 2008 (elearning) [3] and the Infocomm Singapore Awards 2008 (elearning).[4][5]

KooBits received support from the Media Development Authority (MDA) [6][7] in the development of Future Media [8] and was one of the companies selected to receive funding in Interactive Digital Media [9] projects. MDA also helped Personal e-Motion secure Venture Capital fund from Accel-X Pte Ltd. KooBits is part of the FutureBooks[10] Partner Network initiated by MDA to develop Singapore-based learning from user-generated content to delivery across multiple platforms. PEM raised its first round of Venture Capital investments in July 2009 through NUS Enterprise ’s network of Business Angels and Venture Capitalists.

KooBits provides the platform for the creation of ebooks for Young Reporters Training Camp program of Youth Olympic Games 2010, an initiative by the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA),[11] Singapore.

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gollark: According to some testing of this smart speakers often just activate randomly, which is not ideal.
gollark: It could be done encrypted, with a key only known to the owner of the camera.
gollark: I don't think it's a good thing to have even more cameras around, especially ones uploading to amazon.
gollark: They can probably also infer your schedule, infer other people's schedules, see what people opposite you are doing through windows, and if they have microphones listen a bit.

References
  1. "www.zaobao.com.sg". 早报.
  2. APICTA-SiTF 2008 – Jakarta, Indonesia Archived 2009-10-15 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "KooBits Wins Asia Pacific ICT Awards 2008". Archived from the original on 2010-01-30. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
  4. NUS Press KooBits Wins Infocomm Singapore Awards
  5. KooBits Wins the InfoComm Singapore Awards 2008 Archived 2010-04-11 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Five Digital Media Projects Set to Draw $70m Investments" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-05. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
  7. "Five New Media projects awarded S$7.6 m funding by MDA" (PDF).
  8. Singapore MDA Taps Industry Leaders To Shape Future Of Books And Virtual Worlds Archived 2009-10-28 at the Wayback Machine
  9. "33 digital media projects win $14m funding". www.asiaone.com.
  10. FutureBooks Archived 2010-04-17 at the Wayback Machine
  11. Minister Speech About KooBits MICA Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine





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