Looks like it's tech IPO season folks. The latest company set to go public is King Digital Entertainment, maker of the highly addictive Candy Crush Saga.The company has officially filed paperwork with the US Securities Exchange Commission as it gets ready to enter the stock market.In the filing, the company reveals that it managed to pull in a profit of US$567.6-million on US$1.89-billion in revenue. The vast majority of that, around 70%, came from one game: Candy Crush ...

Any consumer business competing on the web must be optimised for search, using tactics such as search engine optimisation (SEO) of its visible content – and, under the hood, an AdWords campaign on Google (or the equivalent for other search engines like Phoenix Nest for Baidu or Bing Ads for Bing and AdWords Editor for Yahoo!).This ensures that sites end up at the top (or thereabouts) in organic searches, or at least in a shaded box alongside or above search ...

"The internet revolution is similar to the industrial revolution," said Nigeria's ICT Minister Omobola Johnson at Social Media Week in Lagos. "President Goodluck Jonathan said that we missed out on the industrial revolution, we shouldn't miss out on the internet revolution. Our lives revolve around technology today."The tech minister who has been travelling the globe, collecting thoughts on how to improve Nigeria's tech industry, says that based on government assessment, Nigeria's tech sector showed growth in all sub-sectors even ...

Crime is something we all have thought about at some point in our lives. Whether it is to prevent one or protect yourself, it is important to stay current with the world’s latest crime fighting gadgetry. We might not have reached the days of light sabers and freeze rays but our present technology is still something to marvel at. So to all heroes and villains, here’s a list of six modern-day crime fighting gadgets:Read more on Gearburn.

Each year Geneva kicks off the motoring show season in style. It isn't the first of the year, but it certainly contends for the best and most glamorous.It's where many of the top manufacturers have their chance to show off their most prized metal manifestations and is also the best chance the public has to view these beauties up close and personal.This year is no different to any other as there are plenty of drool-worthy debuts to wait ...

A recent set of job ads suggests that music streaming service Spotify could be preparing for an initial public offering, which would value the company at an estimated US$8-billion.According to a report by Reuters, the Swedish company is looking to hire a US financial reporting specialist.Someone in that kind of post could help it understand the various US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) standards for filing financial disclosures. That kind of knowledge is essential for any company looking ...

Always wanted to learn how to code but can't face sitting through a lecture or an online course? How about playing a game?CodeCombat is a browser-based dungeon-stalking battle game where you play as a wizard, who can control the movements of other characters. But your spells aren't made using magic wands and secret potions -- they're cast using Javascript. The game, which was designed by the Y-combinator funded team behind written language-learning app Skritter, came about after the founders ...

We share a lot of stuff on social media: our dates of birth, our relationship statuses and all those embarrassing party photos. Sharing the results of your latest STD test has to be a first though.Wait, what now? Yup, you read right, and this isn't about typing out a status on an existing social network either. Instead, it's a full service app going by the name of Hula. The app, currently available on iOS, allows you to find your ...

If you're going to start an internet business in Nigeria, get ready to be screwed. That's IROKO Partners' founder Jason Nkojo's biggest takeaway from the company's journey since its inception.In the last three years, the company has become synonymous with Nigerian content using the infectiously popular Nollywood as a segue, but getting there hasn't been particularly easy.The early days of the company mostly involved Njoku negotiating rights for movies in Nigeria. It's a not hard to see why ...

Yes, there are a lot of cool accounts on Twitter. From the ones which saw their owners land book and TV deals to the ones which simply ring out the time, users have a choice far beyond some celebs, friends and tech-savvy brands. But it's still rare to see an account gain 13 5000 followers in just over 10 days... with just 22 tweets.Whatever the odds, @DrawnYourTweet has done it. As its username suggests, the account picks tweets and then ...