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SpaceX launches into history
Things didn't go quite to plan for SpaceX's first launch attempt late last week. Technical difficulties saw it having to be aborted in the last few seconds.Today it launched its way into the history books by getting the Dragon spacecraft into space. From now on, Dragon's mission will be to dock with the International Space Station, the first privately funded and built spacecraft to do so.So far the mission seems to be going well, with the Dragon's solar arrays ...ABSA launches revamped online banking site, but is it enough?
"A new era in online banking." That's what South African online banking giant Absa is promising with its revamped online banking site.The site, which went live today, features a new design that includes a central dashboard. The bank claims that this presents "a snapshot view of one’s day-to-day banking, investments, other assets, and liabilities -- allowing customers to better plan their financial affairs".Arrie Rautenbach, Head of Retail Markets at Absa reckons that providing this centralised view, his bank is ...Facebook stock plummets on day two of trading
Facebook stock has fallen more than 10% on its second day of trading, after already having had problems on its opening day of stock trading.In fact, there were so many issues on Friday that the Nasdaq is reportedly changing its IPO procedures, and underwriter Morgan Stanley had to step in to defend the US$38 opening price.For a while though, things looked good, with the price climbing to US$42 in late Friday trading. Today's pricing represents a 25% ...Facebook goes crazy for Zuckerberg wedding
So it turns out people care a lot more about the fact that Mark Zuckerberg got married this weekend than they do about the fact that his company raised billion of dollars in its IPO.Want proof? Just look at the number of likes each event has on the hoodied one's timeline.His marriage has over one-million likes:His IPO announcement meanwhile only got 511 likes:According to The Next Web, the wedding picture even surpasses Zuckerberg's goodbye note ...It’s official: Chrome is the web’s most popular browser
It's finally happened. Chrome is now the world's most popular web browser. Microsoft haters the world over, rejoice.According to figures from online research company StatsCounter, Google's browser overtook Internet Explorer -- which has long dominated the broswer wars -- some time last week.Of the most popular browsers, Chrome is the only one that has shown real and consistent growth over the past year. Both Internet Explorer and Firefox have been on the decline, although the latter has shown ...New Daily Maverick site goes live
Regular Memeburn readers may recall that we got a sneak preview of the new Daily Maverick site a few weeks back. Today the South African-based investigative news outfit's site is live.What we saw in the sneak preview is more or less what the Daily Maverick has given us. The site eschews the option of having as much of its content showing at one time as possible. Instead it's gone for a minimalist, linear, more blog-like approach.For anyone with short ...YouTube turns seven: 72 hours of content now uploaded every minute
Think back to 2005. What were you doing then? Well Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim were getting ready to launch a site that would completely change the way we view video on the web.Yup seven years ago, YouTube first buffered its way into the world's imagination. Okay the company was actually officially founded in February of that year, but it was in May that its founders first decided to share the site with the world. Just over ...Pakistan restores Twitter after weekend blockage
Pakistan has restored access to Twitter in the country after blocking it over the weekend, saying that it would turn to Interpol for help with screening sensitive content.Somewhat ironically, the country's interior minister took to the social network to explain that the government had chosen to shut it down because of "un Islamic" content, adding that the country's government had tried contacting Twitter, but that it had not been of any assistance.The series of tweets started out ...WikiLeaks launches encrypted social network
Everybody's favourite whistle-blowing organisation has branched out into social. WikiLeaks has just launched Friends of WikiLeaks (FoWL), an encrypted network, which it says is aimed at supporting anyone aligned with its goals and philosophies.According to the site's welcome page, FoWL:is a network of people from across the globe who defend WikiLeaks, its people, its alleged sources and its mission. We publicly and privately promote WikiLeaks and individuals and organisations aligned with the mission of WikiLeaks. This site will ...Mark Zuckerberg weds long-time girlfriend one day after IPO
Mark Zuckerberg is now a married man. The Facebook founder and CEO wed his long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan in a backyard ceremony in Palo Alto yesterday.The couple have been together for nearly eight years after meeting at Harvard, where Zuckerberg first put what would become Facebook in motion.The ceremony took place in front of 100 people in the back garden of the house the two share together.Zuckerberg and Chan had reportedly been planning the wedding in secret ...
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