http://techcrunch.com – Xeneta, which offers a crowdsourced price comparison service for sea freight, has raised a €1.2 million (~$1.6m) seed round led by the Stockholm VC Creandum, with participation from Norwegian private investment firm Alden. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Viki, the video streaming site that has carved out a niche for itself as a destination for premium, subtitled, foreign language streamed video content — some 1.5 billion streams today, all translated by crowdsourcing — has renovated itself in a bid to scale up to improve its advertising-led business model. (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. So let’s be upfront about a couple of things. First, I went to the OUYA party at GDC. Second, I also was invited to the pre-dinner beforehand. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://serverfault.com – In my company we are dealing with an interesting decision: which Operating System should we choose as the default one? (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Sokikom, a new startup that wants to help K-12 teachers motivate students to learn using games, is announcing today that it has raised $2 million in seed funding, half of which comes in the form of a grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (a research branch within the U.S. Department of Education) and the other half comes in the form of angel funding from former Intel Chairman and CEO Dr. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://www.thevarguy.com – Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is striving to restock retailers with Surface Pro 128GB tablets this week. But even before the latest round of Windows 8 tablets arrives, some pundits are calling on the software giant to develop a Surface Pro Mini Tablet to counter Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad Mini. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – Car insurance is a necessary evil for all drivers. Of course, if you don’t happen to be accident prone, paying expensive monthly or annual bills is a headache and seems equivalent to setting your wallet on fire. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://serverfault.com – I wanted to do some (very rough) comparisons between different computers, seeing the relative compute performance of laptops and cloud machines (AWS EC2, rackspace, etc.). I wanted something extremely easy and quick to run, and just wanted a rough benchmark of computation performance. Not testing parallelism, disk access, etc. (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – One of America’s worst performing education systems, Alabama schools, got beat on International science tests by the humble central Asian republic of Kazakhstan, and only narrowly outperformed Iran and Turkey. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://techcrunch.com – In the same way that LinkedIn has become the home of your professional identity, and Facebook the home of your social identity, founder and CEO Adam Lieb wants to turn his startup Duxter into the center of your gaming identity. There are plenty of other gaming social networks, but Lieb argued that they’re too focused on specific aspects of the gaming experience. (IT news)
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