News Corporation (NASDAQ:NWS) is acquiring 90% of Wireless Generation for $360 million in cash. Wireless Generation is a Brooklyn based company that creates education technology for teachers. Wireless Generation will continue to operate independently after the acquisition. Wireless Generation has about 400 employees and they server over 200,000 teachers. About 3 million students use Wireless Generation in all 50 states. Rupert Murdoch said that they are making the purchase because education in the U.S. is a $500 billion sector. [paidContent]

Tim Burton is the popular director behind Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, Mars Attacks!, and Batman Returns. He is now reaching out to Twitter users to work with him on Stainboy, a character that he recently developed (pictured above). Twitter users can post their own narratives for the character in order to make it to the final sessions on December 6th. “Stainboy, using his obvious expertise, was called in to investigate mysterious glowing goo on the gallery floor #BurtonStory” is where the story begins on Burton’s Twitter feed. The tweets must be clean and must contain that hashtag. [Moviefone]

Welocalize has raised $34 million in funding from Riverside Partners. Riverside is a Boston-based private equity firm. Welocalize is known for translating web based content. The company is based in Frederick, Maryland is was founded in 1997. Below is the full press release:

Badgeville is a service where you can check-in to websites. Similar to Foursquare, you can earn badges for checking in to certain websites for a specific amount of time. Badgeville has raised $2.5 million in Series A funding. Investors in this round of funding include Maynard Webb (eBay COO), Joe Lonsdale (Palantir Founder), Pejman Nozad, Zain Khan, Felix Investments, and senior execs from PayPal, Chegg, Shopping.com, Drugstore.com, and Warner Music. Badgeville is working with over 1,500 companies to offer them real-time analytics about people visiting their website. Partners that signed up include Comcast Sports, Philly.com, and The Next Web. [TechCrunch]

Foursquare announced on their blog that they are opening an office in Silicon Valley. The company already has a West coast presence by having a few employees work at Square’s office. “Despite growing from 5 employees to 35, we can’t expand as quickly as we want,” said Foursquare on their blog. “Hide yo developers, SF!” said Foursquare PR head Erin Gleason in a tweet. [Foursquare Blog]

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has launched a plug-in that resolves sync conflicts between Microsoft Office and Google Docs. The plugin is called Cloud Connect and it is available for free of charge. When you edit a document in Microsoft Word, it will automatically sync it to Google Docs every time you hit Save. I think that this is an awesome feature.

The Moron Test is a popular iPhone application that tests how much common sense you have. The company behind The Moron Test, DistinctDev, recently announced their numbers. They have hit 3 million paid downloads. With a price of $0.99, this means that they have earned $2 million and Apple took $1 million as part of their 70-30 cut. DistinctDev is a company formed by four people who made the app in their spare time while working full-time jobs. After seeing some success all 4 of them quit their day jobs to focus on The Moron Test. The Moron Test also sells on Android and Symbian. [iTunes Link] [BusinessInsider]

Earlier this month Eva Longoria announced on Twitter that she is divorcing her husband and NBA player Tony Parker. Supposedly Longoria had found some provocative text messages from Erin Barry on Parker’s cellphone. Barry and Longoria used to be very good friends before the divorce situation. Last year Tony Parker, Eva Longoria, and Erin Barry made a spoof of Grease. You can see the parody below (Barry is the pink-shirted girl with the sunglasses, Parker plans Danny, and Longoria plays Sandy):