Scholabo is the private social network for primary and pre-schools. The site isn’t meant for pupils though – it’s more aimed at bridging the divide between parents and teachers. It launched to the UK market in February 2011, and it’s designed to provide a secure ‘gated’ community where schools can send child reports, news,...
Image: Esthr Zynga’s next big hit is called Pioneer Trail, a sequel to a previous hit FrontierVille. The interesting part about the game, as Kotaku points out, is that it takes a radically different tack from Zynga’s previous game: it limits the number of friends you can have in the game. To three. The...
Good morning! Here’s what you need to know: Apple is ordering 20 million iPhone 5s for a blockbuster October release. Backup startup Dropbox is being valued at $5 billion dollars. The future of the Facebook platform is media and ecommerce. Google is plugging Google+ into all of its services. The patent system is an...
Entrepreneurs are pirates – heading out onto the high seas of business with a swashbuckling attitude, facing high risk but also potentially huge rewards. That’s the ethos behind The European Pirate Summit, taking place in Cologne, Germany, next month. The one-day event will celebrate true technological innovation, creativity, risk disposition and delight of entrepreneurship,...
Image: Illustration: Ellis Hamburger Apple has raised its orders to suppliers for 20 million iPhone 5s in the fourth quarter, according to well-sourced trade publication DigiTimes. It increasingly looks like the iPhone 5 will be a blockbuster and, like the iPad 2, the problem will be making enough to sell them. The iPhone 4,...
We’ve spent countless posts, in CrunchGear times, on the gigantic (60 foot) statue of Gundam that was erected in Tokyo and Shizuoka in 2009 and 2010. The “life-size” statue was deconstructed a few months ago, and now Bandai, the company behind the Gundam franchise, decided to bring it back to Tokyo. But this time,...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. We have written about VM security vendor Reflex Systems here back in May....
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Silicon Valley’s so-called undertaker, Sherwood Partners, which specializes in shutting down startups, sees a major fallout coming for certain tech sectors including cleantech, according to an interview with PeHub. Sherwood Partners’ cofounder Marty Pichinson tells reporter Connie Loizos that the firm is already starting to close down cleantech startups and are expecting to see...
Want to help stimulate the economy? You may not need to go any further than your web browser’s search box. Each online search engine adds about 50 cents to the worldwide economy, according to a new research report from consultancy giant McKinsey Company. In fact, Internet search as a whole accounted for $780 million...