“Intel Romania announces the expansion of the local team by 35 employees, which are developing educational software in Cluj-Napoca,” the company said in a statement.
”Kno is the leading educational software developer for grades 1 to 12 and provides solutions for eReaders and eTextbooks, collaboration and classroom activity evaluation tools, and book licensing and distribution management, as well as complete solutions for schools, including analytic data about the activity and performance of each student,” Intel officials added.
Kno’s software center will remain in Cluj, Adrian Cioroianu, business development manager of Intel Romania told ZF.
“The company we bought, Kno, has offices in the United States, in India, and its only office in Europe was in Romania. The center will stay in Cluj, but be part of Intel.”
Now that Intel bought Kno, the center in Cluj might work on developing educational software for the Romanian market, too, Cioroianu added.
“Before Intel bought them, our colleagues in Cluj had been developing software for the US market mostly. They develop educational content for ereaders and have some 225,000 titles in their library so far. Most of the titles were in English, intended for the US market. Now that we have them in Romania as our colleagues we will soon start to discuss to assess opportunities to have local content (digital textbooks) in Romanian. Kno could work very well with Siveco, a company where Intel Capital has a stake in. Kno, too, was at first a company where Intel Capital had a stake in before being acquired.”
With this acquisition, Intel’s number of employees in Romania rose to 400 from 10 three years ago.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)