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Michelle Atagana has a Masters Degree in New Media and Journalism, her thesis focuses on social media technologies in the South African journalistic space with some focus on the public sphere. She has been hanging around the Internet since she was 11 back in proper Netscape days and even found a way to get not one, but two degrees out it. She blogs with moderate regularity and tweets with alarming consistency and works tirelessly at memeburn.com.Mich also sometimes writes for CNN on tech and startups in Africa.
Yahoo has officially announced its acquisition of blogging platform Tumblr for US$1.1-billion cash. The news was first broken on Twitter by the Wall Street Journal, seemingly confirming rumours of the buyout, which have been floating around for a few days now from Kara Swisher and the AllThingsD crew.It's not all great news though as it seems nearly 72 000 Tumblr users have moved their blogs to rival platform WordPress following the rumours, according to WordPress founder, Matt Mullenweg.Mullenweg, wrote in ...
Things are stirring in the house of Yahoo! According to multiple sources, the Silicon Valley veteran is in talks to buy popular social blogging platform Tumblr for a staggering US$1-billion.Yahoo! CFO Ken Goldman, is cited in AllthingsD as expressing the need for the company to be "cool again". Goldman was speaking at JP Morgan’s Global Technology conference earlier this week. The CFO was very explicit about the company's shortcomings and how to fix it, reports AllthingsD."One of our ...
Every year it's the same thing: I say I am not going to let myself get caught up in Magnum's elaborate web-infused campaign racing across the internet. Every year I fail because the games get more addictive.The first year you had the race across the web collecting chocolate bonbons in search of the ultimate pleasure. That was fun. Last year it was a race through the streets of New York also in search of the ultimate pleasure. Now Magnum's ...
Google reportedly wants to take on Spotify. The news, which was first reported on The Verge, says that the internet giant is planning on rolling out a subscription music streaming service as early as this week at the company's I/O event.The news is hardly surprising as Google signed a deal with Warner Music for two streaming services last year, one tied to YouTube and the other to Android Music.Citing people familiar with the matter, the New York Times ...
Most would think that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs had a bitter relationship until the end. But that just isn't true, as the Microsoft founder tells 60 minutes, during an interview in which he describes his last visit to the late Apple co-founder.Gates grew emotional talking about his last visit with Jobs before his death. According to the personal computing billionaire, the visit ended on a "forward-looking" note."He showed me the boat he was working on, and talked about ...
There goes all the information at your fingertips, says every feature phone owner who uses Google's SMS search. According to reports, the search giant has shut down the service that allowed people to send search queries via text message by texting their queries to "466453" (GOOGLE).Apparently the service was stopped in the last week with no word from Google until users took to forums to query the shutdown. A Google employee going by the name of Jessica S ...
It's obvious that Africa really is pushing an entrepreneurial agenda at the moment. Africa 2.0 is entrepreneurship competition aimed at bringing together startups in a workshop format following the Startup Weekend model.Africa 2.0 is a Pan-African organisation made up of more than 300 people from Africa and the Diaspora. According to the collective it shares a vision for Africa and "a commitment to finding and implementing sustainable solutions capable of leapfrogging the development of the continent".Read more on ...
Google's core business is all about finding you what you need to know. The company has become synonymous with searching the internet, so it is no surprise that it will always try to innovate in that area. The next step in search? Well, that would be Knowledge Graph.When Google launched its latest version of search, it said it was trying to build a search of the future that taps into the "collective intelligence of the web and understands the world ...
Twitter breaks news and readers flock to the social network for the latest in world events, so it stands to reason that the company will capitalise on that. It's looking for a head of news and journalism.According to the job posting, the company "is playing an integral role in the evolution of the news industry — both as a tool for reporters and newsrooms and as a way for consumers to find news in real-time. Twitter has already changed ...
