Mark Zuckerberg And Facebook, IPO, Birthday And Divorce
Editor’s Note: This post is from pieces sent in by two different contributors – Adewale Yusuf and Tech Mistress, and it’s just for you to start your weekend on a ‘outside-tech-business-as-usual’ note. Well it’s centered around Facebook and it’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is very much in the news – well he always has.
We have covered a number of story on
Facebook, but aside the IPO (going public at $41 per share to have a value of $116 Billion), what else should you know about the social network and it’s founder – Mark Zuckerberg? First, May 14, 2012 was Mark Zuckerberg’s 28th birthday. From late last year till now, Facebook (and MZ) has been in covered stories than ever before with interesting growth and storming steps the company took in making their service the best in market. Read more
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Pledge51: The 2.0 Version of The Nigerian Constitution Mobile App
One of the things I fancy so much about the mobile phone is its ability to be with us at all times. Three things we can hardly leave the house without; a mobile phone, Keys and our wallet [Money]. Not only is the mobile phone with us at all times, but it connects us with the wonderful conversations we like to have with people that we are connected with.
Pledge51 with the support of Indigo Trust and Co-creation Hub is releasing the Version 2 of The Nigeria Constitution on mobile phones. The app has been repackaged and developed to promote citizenship enlightenment.
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Growth Academy Opens With User Experience – User Interface Design Training
Growth Academy – an initiative by Nokia and the Co-Creation Hub, to open for classes. The three intensive program, to equip early stage start-ups and innovative business ideas and businesses with skills, resources, channels to market, platforms and expertise in a bid to accelerate and grow their development as businesses with major economic potential.
Co-Creation Hub in conjunction with Futurice will be providing hands-on User eXperience/UserI design training for mobile based designers from the selected startups. So make sure you are on the list before you start dashing down to the ccHub.
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African News Innovation Challenge To Transform The Continent
Over history, mass media has been disseminated in various ways like the old letter in the bottle, using pigeons, to the stages of technological advances, and then came the internet. With the internet came the evolution of media to what is known today as the new media.
We have now realized the powers to which the alternative forms of disseminating information has, it started with the revolution in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya as well as the ongoing war in Syria.
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E-commerce Sites Start Using Pinterest to Market Their Products
Following the extensive growth of Pinterest in recent months, several large e-commerce sites have added plugins to the new social network. Recently, both Amazon and eBay have added Pinterest “buttons” to their product pages, allowing users who like a particular item they came across while browsing on one of the e-commerce sites to then share it with their Pinterest community.
Notably, eBay only added this functionality for some of their products – namely fashion, gadget, and kitchen ware, indicating that their other major sellers – electronics and games – are unlikely to attract Pinterest users in the first place.
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Why Nairaland Remains Nigeria’s Number One
I have been observing the Nigerian Startup scene for a long while and I’ve seen it all. Various Startups with various propositions: local search, directories, social networking, online shopping, pidgin dictionary etc. We’ve seen startups with varying ambitions all come and go.
But one startup has remained “evergreen”: Nairaland. Launched in 2005, loathed by Techies, wooed by investors and loved by its approximately 1million users, Nairaland is one of the most popular web destinations in Nigeria.
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Developer’s Corner: Compass On Your Mobile Device That Comes With The Pirate Feel
Editor’s Note: Remember My Checklist? The simple task manager that helps keep track of your “To Dos” in your personal or professional life? Well the app-maker Tunde Olabenjo (Vevici Technologies Limited) sent me an email about another app he just added to the Apple app store, as well as the Android market place – now part of Google Play.
If you’ve always wanted to have the feel and look of Captain Jack Sparrow, you have no excuse now. The Pirate Compass is simple yet classy and easy to use, and I know this first hand, as I did try it out on one of my visits to the lab. The app is available on iOS – iPhone and iPad, as well as Android powered devices – phones and tabs.
Nigeria: Card, ATM & Mobile Expo Africa 2012
To all those who prefer to hide money under the carpet, inside their mattresses, or even in holes in the ground, this is not for you, and you got no reason to read this. However, if you’ve not missed out on the term ‘cashless society/economy’, then read on.
Presenting the 12th edition of the Card, ATM & Mobile Expo Africa 2012 (the biggest of its kind in Africa), taking place from the 12th to the 14th of June, at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos.
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iROKING Adds Symbian Version of Mobile App
iROKING is the Nigerian premium music streaming platform belonging to the iROKO Partners, the owners of Nolywoodlove on YouTube, that is now available on their own channel on the web; iROKO TV.
It is available on the web and mobile. It allows you to stream music over 3G or Wifi on your mobile. It also claims to have an offline option for listening to music on mobile. [I did not get that to work for me on my mobile]
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Future Technology: Bacteria That Makes Your Hard Drive Faster, And Other Stuff
The words bacteria, viruses, bacteriophage makes you probably think about diseases but we also forget the beneficial effects of these microscopic organisms; like yoghurt, penicillin and Botox. Well, in years to come we are probably going to add Computers to the growing list of the benefits of bacteria.
The University of Leeds and Tokyo university are neck deep in research for alternative uses of bacteria in Technology. And so far they have been successful, a certain type of bacteria when they ingest iron become magnetic themselves thus mimicking components similar to those in PC hard drives.
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