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Shake-Up, Social Media Crackdown, and Political Shifts Define the Week
Earlier this week, the United States tech giant Nvidia lost over a sixth of its value to a newly founded...
Bill Gates Calls Divorce “The Mistake I Most Regret”
Bill Gates has described his divorce from ex-wife Melinda Gates as “the mistake I most regret,” despite feeling “more cheerful...
Dangote Refinery To Receive 12m Barrels Crude Oil From US
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery, a $20 billion project in Nigeria, is awaiting the arrival of 12 million barrels of crude...
Monitise Buys Turkey’s Pozitron For Up To $100M To Take Its Mobile Money Network To The Middle East
Some consolidation in the world of mobile commerce. Monitise, a UK-based company that works with the likes of Visa to build and roll out mobile payment solutions, has acquired mobile commerce…
GoldieBlox’s Super Bowl Ad Is A Counterbalance To Rampant Sexism
https://www.youtube.com/embed/mHXbQ4PeNLI?feature=player_embeddedOn Sunday night, about 110 million people turned on their TVs to watch a series of lavish, expensively produced 30-second skits interspersed with live footage of men throwing a ball…
What if I want to Stick with Windows XP? Here is what to do!
Is longer a secret, it's been over a decade since Windows XP came into being. It's true, time has changed; newer technologies has been introduced, even the guys up there…
North Korea's home-grown OS looks a lot like Apple's OS X
IDG NEWS SERVICE - If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, might the folks in Cupertino be pleased when they see the latest version of North Korea’s home-grown operating…
EU's copyright do-over delayed a month
The planned overhaul of the European Union’s copyright laws has been set back by a month as a public consultation was extended. The European Commission had asked for feedback by…
Chrome beta users get an assist from Google Now
IDG NEWS SERVICE - Google Now is moving out of the lab and onto the desktop in the beta version of Chrome. Starting this week, Chrome beta users can view…
Windows XP gained market share in January (or did it?)
Microsoft is almost ready to put Windows XP out to pasture, but the popular operating system refuses to die. The latest worldwide numbers from Net Applications show Windows XP market…
German federal prosecutor considers formal NSA investigation
Germany’s federal prosecutor is considering if there is enough evidence to warrant a formal, criminal investigation into the German government’s alleged involvement in the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) data…
Feds pave the way for cars that can talk to one another
The Department of Transportation (DOT) said Monday that it plans to require vehicle-to-vehicle communications in future generations of cars, eventually making the technology as ubiquitous as seat belts. Specifically, the…
How to Immigrate to Canada from Lebanon
Immigration to Canada for Lebanese offers over 100 ways to get around. Almost 1,800 Lebanese citizens have already chosen to immigrate to Canada over the past five years. With between…