Investors and innovators from across Africa will converge in Nairobi on Thursday, October 24 for this year’s DEMO Africa conference, where innovative tech start-ups will pitch for funding and technical support. The two-day conference, billed as the
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China’s Huawei to offer smartphone for high-end market
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei will launch a new smartphone on Tuesday to better compete with high-end rivals like Apple and Samsung overseas, a company official said. Huawei will unveil the Ascend P6 in London in one of its major smartphone launches
Yahoo unveils makeover of flickr site
Reinvigorated technology player Yahoo! Monday unveiled a dusted-off design of its flickr photo platform only hours after the company's dramatic acquisition of blogging site Tumblr. Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer, maintaining that her ambition was
Amazon working on 3D screen for smartphone: report
Amazon, long rumored to be developing its own smartphone, is working on a screen that allows people to see 3D images without glasses, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The Journal said the Internet retail giant is working on several gadgets
Indian women use smartphones to ‘pin the creeps’
With virtual bodyguards, panic buttons and maps to pinpoint harassment blackspots, women in urban India are using their smartphones for protection after a notorious gang-rape in New Delhi. Interest in safety apps and websites has surged since the fatal
