“Africa’s Bill Gates” Launches ShopAfrica53, A Continental Enterprise
Tall and well-built, cheerful with an appearance of nonchalance, the man Inc. Magazine described as Africa’s Bill Gates is a man with a few tricks up his sleeve – as you might expect. After making his fortune with an enterprise-software company, Herman Chinery-Hesse reached higher, creating a company with a dual goal: helping the continent’s SMBs sell their products [...]
Read MoreFacebook CEO to Donate $100 Million to Newark Schools
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to donate $100 million to the Newark school system. This could bring in a total donation of $200 million as Newark’s mayor, Cory Booker, has been working on raising another $100 million from private foundations and others. Zuckerberg is setting up a foundation with $100 million in Facebook stock [...]
Read MoreWordnik, The New Wikipedia?
How ironic that one of the first truly innovative search engines to come a long in the past 5 years started out as little more than the new millennium’s contemporary version of a dictionary. Wordnik, which launched as the brainchild of Erin McKean, provides contextual information about words and their definitions. The project states its mission as “discovering all the words and everything about them,” which it does by providing real-time search results from Twitter, the web, Flickr and it’s own database off definitions.
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