bidorbuy.com Inc, a Delaware Company and the parent of bidorbuy, one of Africa’s largest online marketplaces, has bought a 22% stake in Jump Internet Technologies, the company which operates Jump Shopping, the South African online shopping comparison web site.

As a well-established feature of the African journalistic landscape, the Siemens Pan Africa Profile Awards for 2007 is now open to entries from journalists whose work has helped make science and technology more easily understood with new categories that aim…

IBM has announced an ambitious new mentoring program that will pair more than 250 of its top scientists and researchers with university students throughout Africa. Called “Makocha Minds” (after the Swahili word for “teacher”),

Former top officials of the Federal Government who were alleged to have received about 10 million euros as bribes from the German telecommunications company Siemens will soon land in hot soup as President Umaru Yar’adua yesterday ordered security agencies to…

Google has signed up MySpace, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, and Bebo, a favourite among UK teenagers, to its new OpenSocial system that aims to link services on some of the web’s most popular sites.

Kenya is to host the third African Outsourcing and Contact Centre in Nairobi from November 27 to 28. The two-day meeting has been sponsored by the newly formed Kenya ICT Board to the tune of Sh1.5 million.

Four years ago we saw the launch of face book and already there are over 50 million people singed up and around 200,00 joining a day. But what if you want to leave? Is it as simple as just deleting…

While the evolution of the internet has served to unite the world, satellites have kept the most remote corners of the globe connected.

The greatest challenge for most start-up SME owners? “Focusing on their core business.” This is the opinion of Ivan Epstein, CEO: Softline. “Doing the ‘actual business’ of your business is often that much more difficult for SMEs because of the…

Social bookmarking may be flying under your radar — it was mine. However, this Web 2.0 phenomenon involves millions of Internet users, especially those under 50 and with higher income levels.

Social networking has set the online world on fire over the past two years, with the likes of Facebook, MySpace and YouTube enjoying explosive growth in revenues and users. South African Internet users have embraced social networking with the same…

In an age of increasing social and cultural diversity international perspectives on career development are more evident than ever before.

Africa: an entire continent of potential and possibilities. This is the view of the Switch Group – one which it is already acting on, with a new branch office in Kenya and another planned for Nigeria. S’bu Manqele, group business…

The United Nations says millions of online wordsmiths have translated their vocabulary prowess into more than one billion grains of rice — enough to feed 50,000 hungry people for one day.

Larry Lessig gets TEDsters to their feet, whooping and whistling, following this elegant presentation of “three stories and an argument.”

Cisco Systems is to invest $10 million to develop its network infrastructure on the continent. According to the report, five African countries who stand to benefit from the initiative are Nigeria, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Kenya.