Is Twitter the New News?
With the rise of the Internet and social media outlets like twitter and Reddit, citizen journalism has taken off in leaps and bounds, or should I say tweets and bounds. One of the things I found most...
View ArticleThe Y Combinator Effect
Despite recent claims that 11 in 12 start ups will fail, I decided to look into startups that did survive, of course, what I came across was tech-incubator Y Combinator. Most readers of UWS will be...
View ArticlePosterous Acquired by Twitter
Posterous, the online platform that specialises in ‘micro-blogging’ has been acquired by social media giant Twitter. Originally a Y Combinator start up, Posterous has been growing rapidly since it was...
View ArticleBig Plans for new Yahoo CEO
Speaking on a conference call regarding earnings for his first full financial quarter, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson outlined the company’s latest plans to let go or ‘transition’ at least 50 Yahoo owned...
View ArticleThe Interconnected World of Tech Companies
If you haven’t already seen this one by Mashable infographics check it out. It illustrates just how interconnected the tech world is. An update that springs to mind is of course facebooks acquisition...
View ArticleInfographic: Who Are The Unbanked?
Recently we ran the Infographic: Mobile Payments and the future of money. It stated; ’17 million adults in the U.S are unbanked’ and ‘Nearly all of the worlds unbanked population lives in Africa,...
View ArticleAd Campaign Relates Stalin to Social Media
A project created by Russian communications student, Ilya Tekhlikidi has been used as a campaign for the Victims of Illegal Political Repressions Organization. The campaign has been aimed at younger...
View ArticleChanging Times: Google Pictionary Defines the World Today
Dictionaries are pretty much always filled with words, right? Countless pages of definitions, black on white sort of stuff, a friend to all of us but still kinda dull and boring. Not on this occasion...
View Article12 Million Apple User Files Stolen from FBI Laptop
In a recent breach of FBI security, hacktivist group Antisec have released a large cache of data that was apparently stolen from an FBI agent’s laptop. The group claim they have intercepted 12 million...
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