Big companies, and big investment, continue to flow towards “ed-tech,” as Intel announced on Friday that it acquired education software company Kno. Intel had previously made a$20 million investment in the company, as part of a $37.5 million round of financing in 2011. Kno started as a hardware company, aiming to make tablets for educational markets, and then shifted to a strategy of helping to digitize, enhance and sell electronic textbooks. Intel says in the announcement: “The acquisition of Kno boosts Intel’s global digital content library to more than 225,000 higher education and K-12 titles through existing partnerships with 75 […]