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Virtual social network IMVU raises $35M from China’s NetEase and others

TechCrunch

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China (behind Tencent), is among a group of investors who just backed IMVU, an avatar-focused social network operating out of California.

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Pakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible

TechCrunch

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.” Maqsad announced today its $2.1

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The Engagement You’ll Find at Our Virtual Events

CIO

A record number of participants turned out for a discussion group with one of our speakers, Tom Kouloupolous , futurist and chairman and founder of Delphi Group, during our April virtual summit, CIO’s Future of Cloud and Data. Indeed, interaction is what makes a virtual summit a conference vs. a webinar. Text chat was different.

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Fiveable lands $10M Series A to become ‘the hallways of the educational internet’

TechCrunch

While tech workers may turn to virtual HQs or Twitter Spaces for spontaneous chats, high schoolers are searching for casual places online to riff and study with friends. Now, it is evolving to become a social learning platform that helps any student navigate high school. What do students do in the hallways of high school?

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Turkey’s Spyke raises $55M in a seed round to bring a social twist to casual mobile games

TechCrunch

Spyke Games , which hopes to bring a new dimension to casual games by using multiplayer functionality and other social elements, has raised $55 million in a seed round of funding. She said the team there “unintentionally” built in social elements into Toy Blast and “stumbled” on to a community of players.

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Skich’s new app brings social discovery to mobile game recommendations

TechCrunch

Users aren’t promised in-game rewards, virtual currency or anything else. Upon first launch, users simply tap on the categories of games they most enjoy — like board, adventure, card, casino, educational, strategy, word, racing, sports, casual, puzzle, and others. It’s just a recommendation. Image Credits: Skich.

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Why educational institutions should consider Salesforce Education Cloud to streamline student services

Trigent

They chose Salesforce Education Cloud to centralize their communication channels and elevate the student experience. . Needless to say, educational institutions can break new ground with Salesforce Education Cloud! Salesforce Education Cloud enables all this and more to facilitate continuous learning and improvement.