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JumpStart’s Penguins of Madagascar: Dibble Dash mobile launch signifies shift for ed-game studio

Mobilize, a better alternative to Google Groups for community management, raises $1.2M

SummitView Capital raises $1.7B private equity fund with Shanghai government for chip investments

World of Warcraft’s Pepe the bird goes from lark to phenomenon

Get your Crunchies nominations in — and get your tickets now

Vine now lets you favorite accounts and get push notifications when they post new videos

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is the system’s fastest-selling game

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80% of marketers agree innovation is important — but disagree on what it means

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Scripted raises $9M for its writing services, plans to launch copy-editing service next year

South Korea’s Gamevil expands in mobile gaming as it acquires Waplesoft

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Interest in CRO grows 30% as marketers spend big on tools to attract you

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Blizzard’s, players’ top 10 World of Warcraft quests offer adventure, nudity, and tears

Attention, unsafe drivers of on-demand car services: ZenFleets will be watching you

Studio head apologizes for woeful Halo: The Master Chief Collection launch: ‘We will make this right with our fans’
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Relive the intense Battle of the Bulge in Company of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault

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Live Rounds will offer video chat for up to five players in PC online games

Elance-oDesk scores $30M to help more freelancers work in their pajamas

Roomer grabs $5M to help you sell your nonrefundable hotel reservations

Surprise! 22% of all startups at CES 2015 will be from France (updated)

HBO shows will be censored as part of Tencent distribution deal in China

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Tales from the Borderlands: Episode 1 delivers a hilarious knockout blow without relying on the usual fighters (review)

Ranked: The 12 programming languages that will earn you the most

Sentient Technologies picks up $103.5M for massively distributed artificial intelligence

FCC asks T-Mobile to be clearer with customers about throttled data speeds

New Hexoskin smart shirt uses sewn-in sensors to get heart rate, respiration

Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding stories, in one place

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Mobile marketer Fetch adds tool to better connect paid ads with what users do

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare by the (big) numbers

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BlackBerry offers up to $550 to trade your iPhone for a BlackBerry Passport

Santa Cruz school threatener says other budding terrorists should avoid using Yik Yak

Nintendo pulls 3DS game from eShop after hackers exploit it to run homebrew software

Shopping app Slice acquires Unroll.me, a service that takes the clutter out of your inbox

Slack adds Compliance Exports to let companies meet regulatory standards for employee communications

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GameStop exec voices concern over the dipping price of digital games

Google Chrome will block all NPAPI plugins by default in January, drop support completely in September
