Five years ago, launching a decent streaming platform took millions. Now? A teenager with a laptop can build something that reaches millions. That shift…
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Springleap made a name for itself selling t-shirts based on crowdsourced designs. It was more or less an African version of Threadless, with artists’…
Burning Hot: Twitter going public, Dark Souls 2 and African entrepreneurship
What do you get when you combine the next big social media IPO with a title set to have fans of role-playing games grimacing…
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Mail & Guardian editor-in-chief Chris Roper is standing in front of a graph predicting newspaper circulation figures — and it’s not good. You may…
Free internet can fix education issues in developing countries [T4A]
There are many issues facing the emerging markets and most will argue that technology and access to the internet can help solve those problems….