http://techcrunch.com – Songza, a free streaming music service that has expert-made playlists and runs on the web and various touch screen platforms, raised $3.8 million according to a SEC filing. While Amazon has long been an “unconfirmed” investor listed on AngelList, it parlayed its investment in the earlier Aime St vehicle into Songza. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://news.softpedia.com – Git, a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency, is now at version 1.8.2.1. Every Git version released so far has a hefty changelog and introduced a huge number of improvements. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://news.softpedia.com – SeaMonkey 2.18 Beta 1, a web browser, advanced e-mail, newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing suite, has been released. SeaMonkey 2.18 Beta 1 is a new major release in the series and comes with a couple of important new features, not to mention all the bugfixes made available. Highlights of SeaMonkey 2.18 Beta 1: • Private Browsing support has finally been implemented, but kee (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://news.softpedia.com – Mozilla released Mozilla Thunderbird 21.0 Beta 1 for Linux, an email and RSS client, featuring numerous bug fixes and improvements. Mozilla has announced a while ago that the development of Thunderbird will cease in the near future, but, for now, they are adding quite a lot of new stuff. Highlights of Mozilla Thunderbird 21.0 Beta 1: • The Twitter API has been updated to use v1.1; • L (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://news.softpedia.com – AMD has released a major driver update for its current product line, integrating a lot of fixes for Team Fortress 2 and other major titles. This AMD Beta driver arrives shortly after Nvidia launched a huge update. It could be just a coincidence, but the AMD driver also has a generous changelog. The ... (read more) (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://news.softpedia.com – The Document Foundation has announced that the final version for LibreOffice 3.6.6 is now available for the Linux platform, bringing a lot of bug fixes and improvements. The new LibreOffice 3.6.6 has arrived just a week later after another stable, and more advanced version, 4.0.2, was released. Highlights of LibreOffice 3.6.6: • Shapes are no longer missing when importing xlsx file format; (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a veteran game designer, creator of leading game design blog What Games Are and creative director of Jawfish Games. You can follow him on Twitter here. There’s a reason why games and organized crime have often gone hand in hand. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – There’s a gold rush going on these days, or a Bitcoin rush, at least. Driven by the recent swings in the value of a Bitcoin, more and more people are learning about and becoming interested in the currency. While they could just buy Bitcoins at the current market rate, others are looking to try their luck at mining Bitcoins. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Editor’s note: Jon Auerbach is a partner at Charles River Ventures, a 42-year-old, early-stage venture firm based in Menlo Park and Cambridge, Mass., where he focuses on mobile technologies. Follow him on Twitter @jgauerbach. Research over the past two decades has identified a strong link between hours of practice and expertise in sports, chess and the performing arts. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – In the first interview since her husband’s death, Laurene Powell Jobs dedicated her sizable platform to advancing immigration reform, while remaining notably tight-lipped about the private life of the late Steve Jobs. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Schmap already helped advertisers and other companies understand their Twitter followers through its Know Your Followers product, but today it launched a new, upgraded service called Demographics Pro — CEO Paul Hallett described the concept as “Nielsen for Twitter.” Nielsen does its own social media analysis, and it announced a partnership with Twitter last fall, but that was focused o (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 40-city community bringing the global startup world together while educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs. There are few people whose impact on entrepreneurs and business in general you hear about as frequently as Clayton Christensen. (IT news)
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