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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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Create The Perfect Virtual Recruiting Strategy For Universities With These Tips

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Universities and other educational institutions across the world canceled in-person career fairs and on-campus recruitment drives. This led to a forced transition to virtual campus recruiting—which turned out to be a good thing so far! Creating a virtual campus recruiting strategy: The steps. Build a robust hiring plan.

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5 Best Practices For An Effective Hybrid Campus Hiring Strategy

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The team asks you about the roadmap for the company’s hybrid campus hiring strategy. It’s been weeks since you have been talking to your recruiter friends from other organizations to pull off the strategy but haven’t been able to do it. And now, you have no answer and no strategy! You stay quiet. And confused.

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5 Best Practices For An Effective Hybrid Campus Hiring Strategy

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The team asks you about the roadmap for the company’s hybrid campus hiring strategy. It’s been weeks since you have been talking to your recruiter friends from other organizations to pull off the strategy but haven’t been able to do it. And now, you have no answer, and no strategy! You stay quiet. And confused.

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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.

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Digital listening reveals 3 leading innovation drivers

CIO

To gain perspective, Iron Mountain sponsored research by Quadrant Strategies, which used digital listening technologies to study public online conversation trends among enterprise decision-makers. In these spaces, virtual and physical worlds can be unified, and what happens in one world can affect the other.