In a significant policy shift, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, has announced the termination of its third-party fact-checking program in…
Living with Google Glass and Twitter’s TV dreams: top stories you should read
What’s it like to walk down the street wearing a pair of US$1500 futuristic glasses? What steps is Twitter taking to make sure that…
Want to know why Amazon’s ship isn’t sinking? Its shareholders are loyal
Amazon reported revenue up 22% in its most recent quarter and a net loss of 2 cents a share compared with a profit of…
Why digital natives need to leave their ivory towers: the DStv example
I recently had an interesting discussion on an email group I’m part of discussing the merits of Netflix over pay TV and Naspers‘ Africa-wide…
Social sentiment can provide serious insight for big data: here’s how
As social media explodes, valuable trends are increasingly available to those able to discover them. Yet sorting out signal from noise is only getting…
