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Nintendo has revealed that four titles from its Game Seminar event last year will be released this week on the Nintendo eShop for Wii U in Japan. Crafted by teams of students, the games will be available as free downloads from the online marketplace. Game Seminars have been held by Nintendo since 2006. They give students the opportunity to get mentored by Nintendo employees as they make games.

Nimboxx, a Gigaom Structure 2014 Launchpad People’s Choice winner, plans to announce its kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) data-center-in-a-box Thursday at Structure. Additionally, the company will also reveal that it has landed $12 million in Series A funding from Hong Kong-based SMC Holdings.

The company’s appliance is geared toward small-to-medium-sized businesses that don’t necessarily have the IT staff or the expertise to deal with the complexities of managing multiple virtual machines.

Trent Fitz, Nimboxx’s chief marketing officer, told Gigaom in May that a user of the company’s appliance will be able to spin up multiple virtual machines in around seven minutes after setting up the hardware.

The company currently competes with other data-center-in-a-box companies like Nutanix and Simplivity.

Nimboxx has 26 employees and expects to double that by the end of this year.

The German publisher Axel Springer has bought a minority stake in a French search engine called Qwant, which focuses on user privacy and sorts its results into streams for the web, news, social, shopping and so on.

Axel Springer spokesman Michael Schneider told me the publishing house – which is getting into digital in a big way – saw search as crucial to its various websites in general. The company has also recently invested in vertical search engines in the classifieds space, such as Truffls and Jobspotting, through its Plug and Play accelerator.

“We want to use the knowledge of Qwant and to make an exchange of ideas to see how search works,” Schneider said. He declined to say how large the investment was.

Axel Springer has a keen interest in search, using its political influence in Germany to push back hard against Google from the publishing perspective…

If you are a business person, you might have some sensitive information saved in your computer. Your computer may have financial information, clients’ information, business strategies or any similar records. All these sorts of data are sensitive and can harm fiercely if it gets leaked. Losing financial information such as account numbers, capital information or credit card numbers, if your financial records get compromised, you can easily be a fraud victim or can face some other perils as well. Similarly, the loss of clients’ credentials can result in a decline in your goodwill in the business world. So, be sure that your records are secured from getting leaked, for the purpose, you need to opt for some measures that are nor complicated neither expansive, but, you just ignore them.

Establish Policies Regarding the Use of Data

If you are not willing to hand over your business’ information to your employees…

Here’s some fascinating automobile trivia for you. The inspiration for the legendary Ford Thunderbird (or T-Bird) came from a 1952 Ferrari Barchetta that was given to Henry Ford II by Enzo Ferrari. Yes, the two automakers had a long relationship before their famous falling out in the mid-1960s, which resulted in the Ford GT40. Just look at the styling of this one-off Ferrari Barchetta, especially the rear, and you will see the T-Bird in the making.

This one-off Ferrari currently resides in the Peterson Automotive Museum, and they let Jay Leno take it for a spin with his cameras rolling. Enjoy the sights and sounds of this machine that helped shape automotive history, because without this Ferrari, her daddy would’ve had to take away whatever else she was having fun, fun, fun with.

-Nick

Software as a Service has been at the vanguard of cloud adoption, with Salesforce.com(s crm) starting to blaze the trail more than a decade ago and Workday, Okta, Zoho and other players following behind. But growth for SaaS shows no sign of slowing, according to new research from North Bridge Venture Partners working with Gigaom Research.

Among 1,348 respondents surveyed, SaaS adoption grew five-fold from 11 percent to 74 percent in the four years that North Bridge started running Future of Cloud Computing Survey, said Michael Skok, general partner of North Bridge Venture Partners. Of the total field surveyed, 43 percent of which were cloud users ,57 percent were tech vendors. Skok will talk more on the findings thursday at Structure.

North Bridge also found that more than half (56 percent) are using Infastructure as a Service, and 41 percent are using Platform as a Serivce to build new applications

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