Google's Knowledge Graph is generating a lot of hype. For good reason too, it’s a big leap forward in the early stages of the semantic web. A semantic web has context and not just content. This means that when you search for the Taj Mahal, as an example, you get results on the Taj Mahal that you were actually looking for. So if you were looking for the iconic building, that’s what you will find. If you were looking for ...

The trope of geeks dreaming of space is a well-worn one. Thing is it’s not exactly without basis. Today one of those geeks might just see one of those dreams come true. Space X is the brainchild of South African-born PayPal founder, inventor, engineer and billionaire genius Elon Musk (If that description sounds a bit like Tony Stark, it’s probably because Robert Downey Jr based his character on Musk. A little later this morning the programme will launch its Dragon ...

Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg has rung the bell that signals the opening of the Nasdaq stock exchange. Shunning the suits of Wall Street, Zuckerberg instead chose to ring the bell from the social network's California headquarters. His attire? Sneakers, jeans, a grey shirt and a dark hoodie. What, like you were expecting anything else? Zuckerberg was surrounded by some of his most senior executives and a host of employees -- many of whom have been attending an all-night ...

After months of speculation, a two-week long roadshow, and hours of pent-up waiting, it's finally happened. Facebook has officially started trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The company's share price opened at US42, higher than the US$38 it was offering, before leveling back down to US$40. Earlier today CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg rang the bell that opened trading, officially signalling Facebook's first day as a publicly trading company. It took a few hours, however for the company to ...

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, or just woke up from a coma you probably know that Facebook debuts on the stock market today. As with any big event, the people of Twitter (which, by the way, was last seen doing everything its power to avoid going public) had to have their say. There were, of course, jokes: Facebook IPO day joke:Why is Facebook going public?Because they couldn't figure out the privacy settings either. :P— Sritika Dhar (@Sritika) May ...

South Africa is country with an incredibly high mobile penetration, but which has always suffered from excessively high voice call rates. This week it seemed like all that was changing. The country’s third operator CellC threw the first volley, announcing that call rates on prepaid packages would drop to 99c per minute. Vodacom, the country’s first and biggest operator, responded in kind, saying that it too would reduce its rates to 99c per minute. And the masses rejoiced. My question is simple: ...

Chances are, anyone in your office even remotely interested in tech or business is going to be talking about Facebook's IPO today. If you're feeling a little out in the cold, don't worry. We've got your back. Here's everything you need to know about the Facebook IPO in a nutshell. The social network’s initial public offering consists of 421 233 615 shares. Shares will start trading at US$38 apiece. Predict the closing price. There are two classes of Facebook stock. Class A stock ...

Facebook is not interested in reforming Wall Street with its IPO, as Google tried to do with its Dutch auction process and snubbing the big investment firms. So it shouldn't be surprising that Facebook isn't interested in adopting a more open company governance structure either. In fact, Facebook [$FB] has copied Google's [$GOOG] corporate structure as closely as it could, and even improved on it. The two-tier shares where insider's shares have 10 times the voting power is common to ...

While the press scrutinises every move surrounding Facebook’s IPO, it is worthwhile remembering that life goes on. Sometimes it goes on hilariously. According to the Deccan Chronicle, an Indian woman is divorcing her husband for failing to change his Facebook status from “single”. The man meanwhile says he was just too busy settling into matrimonial bliss and running his furniture repair business to change his status. The 28-year-old woman is am IT professional who says she decided to divorce her ...

"We have a symbiotic relationship with the internet, we cannot live without it and I am pretty sure if it could think, the internet could not imagine existence without users," says Yasushi Okamura, Global client director at Oracle. Okamura, who was addressing the audience at the Korea Communications Conference, suggests that human beings have undergone a symbiosis with the internet that has enabled both parties to evolve greatly in the last 25+ years. "We have evolved and adapted the internet into ...