Quickwire: Textbook-Rental Company Buys College-Matching Site Zinch

Chegg, the textbook-rental company, announced on Thursday that it was buying Zinch, a Web site that matches students with colleges and scholarships. The acquisition is Chegg’s latest move in its expansion from renting textbooks to becoming a wide-ranging student portal. “This is the beginning of a connected student network that we hope to build into a giant platform,” Dan Rosensweig, Chegg’s CEO, told All Things Digital. “We want to have a student using us all the way through for a 10-year span, from high school on.”