Post Arab Spring, African Startups Should Be Next in Line for Attention
In Accra, the capital of Ghana, it’s not about who you know, what you know, which member’s club you belong to or even which school you used to go to. It’s all about which church you belong to. Ghana is nearly 70% Christian and on Sundays anybody who is anybody heads off to church, not [...]
Read MoreBonfire.im Brings IM Chat To Twitter, Know If Your Friends Are Online
So far Twitter users have gotten by with Direct Messaging when they want to be more intimate with their friends. But what if they could do Facebook-chat style instant messaging? That’s the offering today from Bonfire.im, a brand new disruptive startup which promises to change the Twitter experience in quite a fundamental way, by adding IM-syle [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 10-21-2011
QR Codes are New Security Threat It was only a matter of time. The same QR codes that have grown in popularity around the world, more so in Asia and Europe than in the US, are now a security threat. An incident took place in Russia where unsuspecting people thought they were downloading an app [...]
Read MoreFirst Lady Michelle Obama on YouTube Sending Her First Tweet [Video]
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President Barack Obama finally got the First Lady hip to something he has been taking on full force over the past few months; social media! Twitter in particular. The First Lady sent out her first tweet yesterday on her Mac laptop. She didn’t use a personal account but used the Joining Forces account, to answer [...]
Read MoreGoogle Looking to Minority Students for Diversity Internship Program
Applications for the Google BOLD diversity internship program are now live! This past summer was Google’s largest batch of interns for the BOLD Diversity internship program. They are now in search of applicants for this coming summer. This program is designed to provide exposure to the technology industry for students who are historically under-represented in [...]
Read MoreFileblaze Partners Up With RocNation, Releasing Artists Music in a Secured Cloud
Fileblaze , a secured cloud-based file storage and streaming platform announced a new partnership with Jay-Z’s record label, RocNation. Fileblaze offers various services from file sharing, storage, streaming and most recently the release of exclusive tracks from RocNation. Fileblaze is a platform for artists and media professionals who deal with sensitive content; including music, video, images [...]
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