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Google invests $1 billion in SpaceX as 21st century Space Race heats up
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What Twitter’s ZipDial buy tells us about mobile in emerging markets
The chirpy blue bird has just acquired India’s ZipDial, which is a popular mobile marketing and analytics platform for emerging markets. TechCrunch estimates the…
Ubongo, Lekki Peninsula Affordable Schools named Africa’s top edupreneurs
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Meet iXperience: the startup that’s teaching US college kids how to code in Africa
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Watch this hungry, hungry hippo torpedo after a speedboat [video]
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Bitcoin price is lowest in two years, here are 4 possible reasons why
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Redfish wants to become the top space for SA’s manual labour workforce
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Je Suis Charlie iPhone app gets over 1 million downloads in just two days
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Google’s barrier breaking real-time voice translator is almost here
The world is more connected than ever before. Yet, foreign languages still seem to be the biggest barrier to achieving a truly interconnected planet….
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