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Nur is an enigma with a passion for creating words. He recently entered a love affair with technology and chorizo sausages. He travels a lot -- you catch him, if you can, at a Silicon Cape event every now and again.
Ever wished your tweets would self-destruct after a set period of time? No? Well apparently some people do and that's where Efemr comes in.The web app allows you to set a time-limit on how long people can see your tweets for. The company behind the app claims that it allows you to "control your reputation better, protect your privacy and sharing humorous fleeting moments".We only really buy the last of those. After all, it only takes a couple ...
IBM chief executive Virginia Rometty has rebuked her company's employees after the tech giant posted weak financials last week.The company, she says has not moved fast enough when it comes to keeping up with the demands of its customers and that it needs to speed up the shift to new computing models."Where we haven't transformed rapidly enough, we struggled," Rometty said in the video published on IBM's internal website. "We have to step up with that ...
Looks like Kickstarter's starting to attract Hollywoood's attention. First there was the Veronica Mars project, which hit serious pay dirt on the platform. Now Zach Braff is looking to finance his own project via the crowdfunding resource.The former Scrubs star says it was actually the success of the Veronica Mars funding drive which made him realise how powerful Kickstarter could be in funding a film. He also says that he likes the amount of control the platform will allow ...
Google Street View is now live in 50 countries after taking the product live in Lesotho and Hungary today.That's not bad going for a product that started out in a handful of US cities back in 2007. Today it covers over five-million miles (just over eight-million kilometres) and includes photos of cities, great wildernesses, parks and mountain tops.According to Google, this is also the largest single update of Street View imagery it's ever pushed, including new and updated imagery ...
A hedge fund executive has revealed that his company owns a US$2-billion stake in Microsoft and that he reckons other investors don't appreciate the value of the tech giant's businesses.Speaking at an investor conference, ValueAct Capital Management LP founder Jeffrey W Ubben disclosed the stake and how much it was worth. While he did not reveal exactly how many shares his company has in Microsoft, their value suggests that it amounts to less than one percent of Microsoft's total ...
If you've had broadband piping into your home, and the various devices within it, for a while now, you might have forgotten what it was like to have your phone on a mobile network only.Imagine what it would be like if you tried to use as much data as you do now in that scenario. Scary right. That's why tech research company Gartner has come to the same conclusion as many of us: a network that shares a robust, ...
Indian mobile ad network Vserv.mobi has announced a strategic partnership with Yahoo! that will see the two companies attempting to conquer South East Asia.In an official blog post, Vserv says the move is part of Yahoo's efforts at becoming predominantly mobile company."With this partnership", the company says, "our advertisers will be able to experience the superior audience targeting capabilities of our network on Yahoo’s inventory across Southeast Asia including Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam".The Next Web quotes ...
We have the pleasure of presenting the Accelerating Entrepreneurship in Africa report compiled by the Omidyar Network, the philanthropic foundation established by Pierre Omidyar -- the founder of eBay -- in partnership with global strategy consulting film, Monitor Group. This epic 48-page report is the result of a three-phase research project launched in 2012 aimed to better understand the state of entrepreneurship in Africa.The project started with a survey of 582 entrepreneurs across six Sub-Saharan African countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, ...
Computing giant IBM is apparently set to sell part of the server side of its business to Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo.According to the Wall Street Journal, the Silicon Valley pioneer will be selling off its so-called x86 server business in a deal expected to be worth billions of dollars.While IBM doesn't provide a breakdown of how much this aspect of the business generates in its financial reports, Morgan Stanley estimates that the x86 division produced around US$4.9-billion ...
