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Saudi Prince Invests $300 Million in Twitter

Prince Walid bin Talal of Saudi Arabia has taken a $300 million stake in the social media start-up Twitter, adding an emerging brand name to an international investment portfolio that largely includes established giants like Apple, [...]

Steve Jobs’ Sister Revealed His last Words

Steve Jobs’ sister has revealed her brother’s last moments and the enigmatic words he uttered before he died. In a touching eulogy at his memorial service on October 16, Mona Simpson described how the Apple founder [...]

Uganda To Test Its First Electric Car

Uganda’s Makerere University students will Tuesday afternoon test drive their first electric car that has been three years in the making. The Kiira EV made by the College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology students is [...]

Blackberry Blackout Continues

Millions of BlackBerry users around the world are facing outage of email, messaging and internet services for a fourth straight day. Research in Motion (RIM), the Canadian company that makes the phones, told some of its [...]

Apple Has received More Than One Million Orders After Job’s Death

On Monday Apple said it received more than one million pre-orders on Friday for the device, breaking a record set by the iPhone 4 when it was released in 2010. Jobs died the day after Apple [...]

Uganda’s US$70m Fibre-Optic Cable Completed

Chinese vendor Huawei has completed the second stage of Uganda’s UGX201 billion (USD71.2 million) fibre-optic backbone two years after the expected completion date of the entire project, having installed 1,380km of cable linking Uganda to South [...]

Farewell Steve Jobs

The fallen Apple chief was regarded as one of the brightest brains of our times. “Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.” Steve Jobs’ death of [...]

Google Celebrates 13 Years

Online giant, Google, which started as an ambitious Stanford project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to index the entire Internet and deliver meaningful search results, turned 13 today. However, 13 years later Google is no [...]

Google To Boost Ugandan Economy

Due to the increased need to invest in business sector by Ugandans, Google has confirmed a commitment to drive the web forward in Uganda to highlight the entrepreneur opportunities presented by internet especially to small business [...]

Facebook promises ‘something awesome’

Just days after the search giant rolled out its new networking platform, Facebook, the reigning champs of the social space, announced Friday that it will hold a news event next Wednesday. Facebook didn’t provide any details [...]