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MLB.TV adds Chromecast support for streaming live, out-of-market baseball games

Apr17
by on April 17, 2014 at 3:15 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Gadgets, Google

MLB.TV is the latest live streaming service to add Chromecast support, letting premium subscribers and their friends watch live, out-of-market games. You can download the new MLB.com At Bat app now directly from Google Play and Apple’s App Store, both of which should be updated with Chromecast functionality today. Casting a live Major League Baseball game straight to your TV is as simple as tapping the cast button. While casting, you can still use your phone or tablet to check scores, stats, and news. Best of all, you can choose between home or away broadcasts to “steer clear of the…

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EdTech champions: The Sanoma startup challenge presents its 5 finalists

Apr17
by on April 17, 2014 at 3:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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One space in tech that is not broadly covered, but is super interesting, is education. Finnish media and learning giant Sanoma ($3 billion revenue in 2013) organised a Startup Challenge to find the most interesting EdTech companies in Europe. Over a hundred companies, from 24 countries, joined the competition. Now five companies battle for the $35k check that Sanoma is awarding to the winner. The five companies are: Wewanttoknow (Norway) creates learning solutions based on games, teaching difficult subjects in an easy, quick, fun and effective way. EduKey (Wales) improves student behavior in schools seating by offering seating charts &…

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General Assembly teams up with Google, Microsoft and others to launch new tech scholarship program

Apr17
by on April 17, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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General Assembly, the New York-based startup that offers educational courses in web development, UX design and other technology-related skills, today launched a scholarship program to train individuals from underrepresented groups. Called the Opportunity Fund, General Assembly is starting out with a small pilot for 17 students in the ‘Big Apple’. The company has allocated $170,000 in total and already attracted support from some of the biggest names in the technology industry. Microsoft will be focused on scholarships for veterans while Google, through its Google for Entrepreneurs program, supports women on the scheme. “Women-led tech companies achieve 35 percent higher return on…

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RunKeeper releases Breeze, an iPhone 5s app for tracking your steps and helping you stay active

Apr17
by on April 17, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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RunKeeper is expanding beyond running with Breeze, a new iPhone 5s app for tracking how many steps you take in a day via the smartphone’s M7 co-processor. While the main RunKeeper app is a staple among fitness enthusiasts, Breeze is designed with us sedentary folks in mind. The app’s interface has a beautiful, calming look that’s worthy of iOS 7. Breeze is iPhone 5s only because it relies on the special M7 motion processor that Apple included in its latest phone. The M7 logs data like steps taken in the background without waking up the more power-hungry A7 chip, allowing…

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Polling app Poutsch relaunches as Voice – a name you can actually pronounce and spell

Apr17
by on April 17, 2014 at 2:47 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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There has been no shortage of polling apps launched in the past few years and one of the most interesting was Poutsch (we called it “Quora for polls“) but with a name that was difficult to pronounce and spell for many English speakers, it was bound to struggle. So, today it’s relaunching as Voice. While Poutsch felt very much ‘desktop first’ with an ‘encyclopedia of polls’-type approach and a simplified iOS app, Voice is putting the mobile experience front-and-center. Firstly, the iOS app (nothing for Android or Windows Phone yet) feels perfectly in step with the new desktop website. Both…

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