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India’s edutech startup MeetUniv announced today that it raised US$1 million from US-based Peesh Venture Capital. Last year, the company raised funding from Times Group’s fund TLabs. MeetUniv allows users to search and apply for higher education abroad. The one-year-old startup lists 3,000 colleges and universities as well as 40,000 undergraduate and postgraduate courses from USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore, and so on. It has facilitated 75,000 video calls with universities. The firm has also developed a CRM for universities. With this round, MeetUniv also gets access to Peesh Venture Capital’s limited partners, most of which are stakeholders…

Privileged account misuse – either accidental or malicious – is a very real threat. From Edward Snowden accessing government systems, through to the Target hack, this type of breach is becoming increasingly common. No firm is immune to this type of attack, and it is easy to point the finger when it does happen. But finding out who is responsible is not always straight-forward and can entail a long and arduous investigation. However, the incident occurs, it is important to get to the bottom of it quickly and efficiently, in order to prevent it happening again. The best way to…

Magento Community Edition is one of the best open source shopping carts. My clients like it, I don’t. I think it’s clumsy to manage, the admin panel is ill thought out, there’s no drag’n’drop interface and it regularly crashes with Internal Server 500 Errors when updated. But this post is about fixing the Magento Internal Server 500 Error that happens when the cart software is updated. Specifically, updating Mage_Downloader causes Megento to crash to ground like a skydiver without a parachute. It just isn’t WordPress. How can you fix this Magento server 500 error? When the cart software updates modules,…

As TechCrunch’s resident watch nerd, I have been asked many times if I’m swapping my Omegas and Seikos and JLCs for the Apple Watch. And I have. I honestly have. I’ve worn the Apple Watch every day since I got it and I don’t know when I’m going to strap on a mechanical next. It’s the saddest thing in the world for me to say but, after years of calling each and every smartwatch nice but not necessary, I’ve finally succumbed to this shiny bauble for a number of reasons. It gets notifications right I’ve worn multiple Android Wear devices, as…

Former Mozilla software engineer Monica Chew and Computer Science researcher Georgios Kontaxis recently released a paper that examines Firefox’s optional Tracking Protection feature. The duo found that with Tracking Protection enabled, the Alexa top 200 news sites saw a 67.5 percent reduction in the number of HTTP cookies set. Furthermore, performance benefits included a 44 percent median reduction in page load time and 39 percent reduction in data usage. Tracking Protection allows Firefox users to avoid many forms of online tracking. Originally based on the blocklist from antitracking startup Disconnect, the feature offers better privacy while also speeding up page…