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Ice bucket challenge: What's happened since?

Posted in Online on 4th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

In what has been described as the world's largest social media phenomenon, more than 17 million people uploaded videos to Facebook which were then watched by 440 million people.

Sri Lanka is the first country to sign up for Google Loon

Posted in Business on 1st Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

Each balloon could cover about 5,000 square km with 3G access and with a little over a dozen the entire country could be covered.

Nearly half of Facebooks users only access the service on mobile

Posted in Business on 30th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

Today Facebook revealed that it now has more than 1.49 billion monthly active users, 655 million of whom only access Facebook via a mobile device.

Opternative launches online eye exams, so you can get a prescription right from your desktop

Posted in Medicine on 29th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

Opternative says its the only online eye exam that can deliver a physician-approved prescription for glasses and contacts.

Google has decided to pull YouTube and Google+ apart

Posted in Online on 27th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

After spending a few years plugging Google+ into all of its services, even as users of those services complained, Google is now rolling that back.