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WATCH: Chocolate for mosquitoes: New sugar-bait tool hopes to end malaria

Mosquito season is almost here and we think we’ve spotted innovation that may just be a mosquito’s achilles heel. We’ve spotted a new tool…

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies at 65

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has died after a long batter with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 65. Allen was a childhood friend of Bill Gates,…

College dropout Mark Zuckerberg is finally getting that Harvard degree

The relatively-famous Mark Zuckerberg is finally getting his Harvard degree nearly 12 years after he dropped out to create that small global experience we…

Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, others join to fast track clean energy innovation

Founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft’s Bill Gates — alongside a group of 26 other powerful business leaders — have launched an initiative…

Mark Zuckerberg pours bucket of ice over his head, challenges Bill Gates

All in the name of a good cause, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has just poured a bucket of ice over his head. Zuckerberg was…

#FirstTweet: revisit your very first tweet with cool new tool

As Twitter heads into its eighth year, the social network thought it might be a good idea for users go to take a back…

Microsoft reportedly settles on Satya Nadella for CEO spot

If you’ve been paying attention to Microsoft’s quest for a new CEO over the past few months, you will have seen one name going…

Redditor asks for iPad for Christmas, gets Bill Gates as her secret Santa

When user NY1227 decided to take part in Reddit’s massive secret Santa exchange, little did she know she’d be getting something that didn’t quite…

Microsoft’s Nokia buyout bound to be a massive boost to Elop’s CEO chances

Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed in an interview with The Seattle Times that Stephen Elop is not only on the shortlist for the…

Check out this clever online Snake game celebrating the Microsoft Nokia deal

If you didn’t buy Microsoft’s multitude of reasons for buying Nokia, don’t worry, you’re not alone. UK based digital agency Webtise has its own…

The man who missed the boat: how do we judge Steve Ballmer’s legacy?

Like so many big tech companies, Microsoft started out as just a couple of guys in a garage. Back in the 1970s Bill Gates…

Ballmer departure may have been more sudden than Microsoft let on

Steve Ballmer’s retirement may have been more sudden and a lot less smooth than Microsoft suggested when it made the announcement on Friday. According…

Steve Ballmer to retire from Microsoft within the year

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will retire within the next 12 months, the company announced today. The Redmond-based giant says Ballmer, who has been CEO…

Bill Gates, computers for kids and why telling a single story is risky

Creating solutions for one population base in a society does not mean that the others don’t exist. Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie gave a great…

13 things we learned about Bill Gates from his Reddit AMA

Reddit’s Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions have hosted everyone from US president Barack Obama to William Shatner and adult entertainment star James Deen. When…

Microsoft chief, Steve Ballmer heralds the everlasting ‘Windows Era’

Microsoft chief, Steve Ballmer proclaimed an everlasting “Windows Era”, as the software giant’s current board swept to an easy victory at an annual meeting…

Jobs biography reveals anger over Android, respect for Zuckerberg

Excerpts from Steve Jobs’ biography have revealed a long-standing vendetta with internet giant Google. The conflict stemmed from the emergence of Google’s Android operating…

Young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and their unethical ways

The film “The Social Network” has helped to make startups popular among young people the world over. It’s just one factor inspiring new generations…

Twitter: 13 follow-worthy CEOs

Why would a high profile Chief Executive Officer need to make use of a microblogging system such as Twitter? Considering that their very words,…

12 predictions for the web

IBM Chairman Thomas Watson famously predicted in 1943: “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” In the same decade the…

Online media is the new black

I’ve been at Mail & Guardian for a long time now, five years and counting, flying the online flag. Am blogging from our 2007…

’The future of advertising is the internet’

The future of advertising is the internet. And that’s not from my mouth. It’s from Bill Gates’. At an Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) conference…

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