Twitter recently unveiled Twitter Engage, its new standalone mobile app for Apple iOS devices, to help “influential” video content creators better monitor the performance of their tweets through an easy interface and “down-to-the-second” analytics. It also announced that users will now be able to share videos of up to 140 seconds (compared to 30 seconds before) and a small group of users will also be testing longer Vine videos as well.

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Self-Driving cars are coming, but is our infrastructure ready? The SAP Digital Futures division is pondering that very thing.

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After Baidu was accused of promoting false medical information on its search platform last month, Chinese regulators initiated an investigation on the search engine’s practices and have now issued new rules for online search and advertising in the country. The regulator recently announced that search companies must provide “objective, fair and authoritative” results which shouldn’t harm the rights and interests of the nation, public and other legal organizations. Search companies are also required to identify and label paid ads clearly, distinguishing them from regular search results and limiting the number of paid ads per page. As Baidu works towards meeting these regulatory requirements and reducing sponsored links, the company revised its second quarter revenue guidance from around $ 3.2 billion (its previous estimate) to around $ 2.8 billion (post new regulatory guidelines). Search services revenue per user is a key driver of Baidu’s valuation and a decline in this number will impact the company’s valuation negatively in the short term. That said ethical practices should improve user trust and benefit the company in the longer term to grow its user base.
See our complete analysis of Baidu here

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Liquid Telecom, the unlisted pan-African group majority owned by Econet Global, is buying South African telecoms company Neotel for ZAR6.55-billion ($428-million), it was announced on Tuesday.

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At the AWS Summit event at Mumbai, Andy Jassy, the newly minted CEO of Amazon Web Services announced the immediate availability of the India Region. Mumbai becomes the 6th AWS Region in Asia Pacific bringing the global footprint of AWS Regions to 13. AWS already has three edge locations in India for its Content Delivery Network (CDN).

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This week I close out my examination of Cisco Systems’ CSR (corporate social responsibility) programs, with a closer look at one of their flagship initiatives—the Cisco Networking Academy referred to as “NetAcad”. This follows my holistic look at the CSR program and my deep-dive on TacOps and community partners. In terms of tangible impact, this 20-year old Cisco Networking Academy program is truly impressive and as it relates to Cisco Systems’ entire CSR program, this is the easiest one to link to the core business. Let’s dive in.

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In this episode of the Unchained podcast, legendary VC Bill Tai reveals how the Bitcoin mining ASIC chip was designed by people with no training and what blockchain organization was founded in Sir Richard Branson’s hot tub on Necker Island.

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There’s so much talk about Millennials these days. The term is used to define folks born sometime between 1982 and 2000, which makes both me (32 years young) and my colleague Virginia (25) Millennials — so why do I sometimes feel as though Virginia and her peers speak a different, faster language than I do? Let’s face it, in the digital world, things change fast. If mine was the generation to connect the world through social media, I often feel like I need crash course in how to reach folks who are 25 and younger. They’re different, brave, confident. They are like younger siblings everywhere who grow up quickly by watching older kids pave the way. When I graduated from university in 2007, the economy was fragile and everyone took the first job they were offered. Today, our younger millennial counterparts advocate for their own professional development almost before they interview. They have a plan. They know what they want, they know what they’re worth are and, as a result, they are making more and more money and giving it away in unprecedented amounts. They have a lot to teach us.

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