South Africa's alleged most visited homepage, Howzit MSN, has relaunched with more local content, some additional unique channels and social networking convergence.Howzit MSN, operated by Kagiso Media since July last year, was named SA’s biggest homepage by AC Nielsen just days before the relaunch.Howzit MSN senior editor Justin Zehmke, says: "We are re-creating the entire portal and increasing the online content relevant to SA.South Africans want local content – this was proven late last year when we added a significant ...

Sitting at the southern tip of Africa you get used to giving a resigned shrug and half-smile when the entire continent gets lumped into something called ROW (rest of world), especially when it comes to scheduling the release dates of new technology.Which is why part of me is almost pathetically grateful for Google’s hands-on approach in Africa. On the other hand, it seems that Google really has set its sights on Africa and is determined to take over the continent ...

Cuba now has the promise of better internet connection with the arrival of a massive submarine fiber optic cable on its Cuba. Though most Cubans will still have only limited access to the Web.The French ship "Ile de Batz" arrived at Siboney beach, Santiago de Cuba province, 870 km (540 miles) southeast of Havana, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Ramon Linares told a computing conference.Valued at US$70 million and considered one of the most ambitious projects between socialist oil-rich ...

Facebook on Tuesday announced plans to move its fast-growing operations to a sprawling Silicon Valley campus once home to Sun Microsystems.Facebook, which turned seven years old this month, has seen its ranks of employees increase by about 50 percent annually and is already cramped in the space it moved into in the city of Palo Alto in early 2009.The former Sun campus in the city of Menlo Park, which borders Palo Alto, has nine buildings with a total of a ...

Chinese venture capitalists have clearly stated their desire to see the success of the western venture capital process replicated in their country. State and private firms have begun to take initiatives and institute policy reforms in recent years in order to meet that target.The Hualu Group, one of the biggest Chinese state-owned enterprises which focuses on the audio and video industry, has been quietly forging ahead in the tech sector. In 2010 Hualu Group's new video website adopted a business ...

Facebook users are being asked to vote on whether one of the most iconic US couples ever should be reunited after a seven-year split. Barbie and Ken, two half-century-old dolls marketed by the world's biggest toy company, Mattel, split on Valentine's Day 2004 after 43 years together, and now the public is being asked to weigh in on whether they belong together.Weeks before Mattel, the iconic toy maker, is due to launch a brand new "Sweet Talking Ken" doll, the ...

In 2008 a couple of tech guys sitting around a table after Barcamp Nairobi first discussed the idea that eventually would become the heart of Kenyan innovation, iHub. In January 2010 there was another group, this time of people trying to setup their own labs, hubs and co-working environments in other countries across the continent.It was there that the idea for Afrilabs was born: An association of these facilities across the continent. The association is for linking the spaces for ...

Dan Lyons of US-based news and opinion site, The Daily Beast, nails it in his look at the AOL acquisition of The Huffington Post for US$315 million."The big problem that everyone in online media faces is that advertising rates keep falling.One response to that has been to say that if each page is worth less, then we must have more pages. Thus we now have 'content farms' like Demand Media which flood the Web with low-cost, low-quality content that is ...

It is a known fact that traditional booksellers are struggling from the onslaught of eBooks and web 2.0 technology. The current woes of large US book retailers have come into focus with the news that Borders Group, which operates some 500 US stores, would delay payments to vendors, landlords and others as it seeks to restructure its debt. Many analysts see bankruptcy or a sale looming for the second-largest US bookseller.Last year, the money-losing number one US bookstore group, ...

You have around 2 seconds and less than 50 characters to grab your reader’s attention with the subject line of your email campaign, so it is absolutely vital that you optimise this space. You might be tempted to go for CAPS, exclamation marks and cheesy phrases but contrary to popular belief this is the complete opposite of what you should do.Good subject lines are straightforward, clear and describe the subject of your email. Go figure. It’s simple advice and ...