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Youku, the Chinese online video sharing site has added another raise of $30 million in private equity funding. Along with that it has received an equipment loan worth $10 million. According to the CentreNetworks, the round was led by Maverick Capital, joined in by the Board of Directors that includes existing investors namely, Brookside Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures, Farallon Capital and Chengwei Ventures.

The total amount tat has been raised by Youku has touched $80 million with the US $10 million equipment loan provided by Western Technology Investment.

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If you talk about desktop, the only name that strikes the mind is Windows, but if you’re looking for some hi-fi performance then the only choice is only Linux.

According to the June’s stats of Top500 regarding world’s fastest supercomputers, 85.4%  (427 out of 500)of the world’s fastest computers are Linux by default choice. Windows barely had 1% of the market share.

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Inside Contactless has raised an additional $4 Million in order to conclude its third round of funding worth $42 Million. It is actually a company that produces chips for contactless payments. The French company, Aix-En-Provance, was already backed by two big companies including Nokia Growth Partners and Nokia Ventures.

As the name suggests, Contactless technology facilitates protected communication between two devices e.g. card to reader or reader to reader through 13.56 MHz ISO standard. A contactless chip which can be found in any device (card, fob, cell phone, PDA, etc.), runs secured applications for payment, access control, content exchange, transport or ID.

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If you’re sick of getting updates by manually refreshing websites, then you should give IM Feed a chance. It is actually a bot that interacts with specific commands adequately (atleast there is a bot which is used positively). The robot supports all the prominent Instant Messaging networks which include AIM, Google Talk, MSN and Yahoo. Another good thing is that there aren’t any pre-requisites for this service.

It is actually a RSS feed which is based on IM which means that the service allows you to receive RSS updates through IM (cool, isn’t it?). The service is somewhat like Anothr. The feeds can be managed either by sending an IM to the bot or by sending a message using the site. The merit of using such a site is that it allows you to get the latest update in a real time instead of refreshing the page manually which takes time and utilise resources.

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Google Maps has furthered its pact with Tele Atlas for a period of 5 years. The information was disclosed by Tele Atlas, a Netherlands based digital map provider.

The licensing agreement will give Google access to Tele Atlas maps and dynamic content in more than 200 countries around the globe, specifically in Europe and Africa. Under the agreement Google will be able to use the mapping data for its current and future mapping products across mobile, online and desktop environments. Current Google apps that use mapping data are Google Maps and Google Earth.

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If I were to say that there is absolutely nothing to kill time, I would be very wrong to do so simply because the web is so completely filled with an endless number of sites that offer everything from information to simply poke back at boredom. One such place is BlingEasy; a site that lets you put creativity to test by using the very many animations and effects to them.

You don’t have to bludgeon yourself with time consuming downloads, especially when all you have to do is pass time and go ‘wow’ over your masterpiece. Added to that, you can also convert your stiff, very traditional photographs to something more interesting.

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The title might seem absurd or down right stupid to you, but it is true nevertheless. A couple of weeks back we reported that June 30th, 2008 would be the last day when Microsoft will ever sell Windows XP. Back than we didn’t knew that Microsoft will come up with such a lousy technique to sell Windows Vista or may I say sell Windows XP again.

Microsoft will not be selling Windows XP from today onwards and any one who wants to get hold of this Operating System would have to buy Windows Vista and than "legally downgrade" to Windows XP. This is the same technique that retailers use to get rid of their back dated inventory or items that couldn’t be sold out normally i.e. put them on sale or bundle them with a hot item.

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LinkedIn has quietly launched a dynamic CPM Text Advertising platform called LinkedIn DirectAds. The unique thing about the launch is this that they have not announced it altogether but robbwebb2k managed to get a scoop on this info.

Advertisers will now be able to dynamically target ads by age, gender, geography, educational institution, industry, and seniority on LinkedIn. The minimum amount that enables you to start serving your ads is $25, however the minimum number of impressions depend upon the targeted audience, with some demographics fetching more than others. The rate also varies with the options you add or remove from your targeting options, thus the more targeted the ad the more you will have to pay. Another compulsion for the advertisers is this that they should have a profile on LinkedIn and their ad will include a link to their profile to have maximum transparency.

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