And though strong oil prices and disappointing earnings news from technology companies brought the index down on Wednesday, other sectors held firm.
The savvy interplay between information, news and technology is allowing the average African citizen to be informed, connected and empowered to effectuate change at both the micro and macro levels.
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Key titles include the BBC's flagship news and current affairs programme, Newsnight, noted for its in-depth analysis and robust cross-examination of senior politicians (available within a week of the UK broadcast), as well as HARDTalk, Click (a popular technology magazine show covering news and developments in consumer technology), Fast Track and Talking Movies (a guide to the best in film, from the most recent Hollywood blockbusters to ground-breaking world cinema).
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The continent is home to countless tech applications that use information, news media and technology .
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Technology news site The Verge was first to note the change in Vine's status.
Many dot.com ads will certainly go away, but surely not the interest in technology news.
It was written four years ago in Manufacturing and Technology News, hardly a bastion of liberal thinking.
Consider article written four years ago in Manufacturing and Technology News, hardly a bastion of liberal thinking.
In other green technology news, Casabella unveiled a stair-climbing vacuum cleaner that is powered by trash.
He sees a pent-up demand for technology news that's visual, fun and interactive.
Here is similar article written four years ago in Manufacturing and Technology News, hardly a bastion of liberal thinking.
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Unfortunately, I believe there is still some bad news concerning the technology out-flow.
While we all waited patiently in long lines to see nothing, the real technology news was being made back in Silicon Valley.
This is exciting news for the technology industry and will inspire a new round of innovations for apps, advertising and cross-device marketing.
Technology news website Ars Technica reported that Bitcoinica suffered a loss of more than 43, 000 BTC in a security breach in March.
Stuart Miles, founder and head of technology news website Pocket-lint, said the Bluestacks software would likely prove popular with keen users of Android apps.
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Its official Twitter account tipped Techmeme, a high profile technology news aggregator, which subsequently pushed out the press release directly from its homepage.
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That editor, Joshua Topolsky, is joining SB Nation, a newish publisher of sites for sports fans, to launch a technology news site sometime this fall.
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It begins today with the acquisition of ReadWriteWeb, a technology news site that attracts about 650, 000 unique visitors per month in the U.S., according to Quantcast.
Technology news site Ars Technica said it had been contacted by many readers who said the credit card they used for the PSN had been used fraudulently recently.
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Techmeme, which is an aggregator of technology news, agreed that the value of what they did was in driving traffic back to the original publisher of a story.
"We've asked the court to implement a procedure for all consumers, not just our client, to recover their data, " the EFF told technology news site Ars Technica.
Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- Anyone who's even peeked at the Internet over the past few days has likely noticed the flood of technology news out of Las Vegas.
Talks between Yahoo and Tumblr were reported earlier by technology news and opinion website All Things Digital, which, like The Wall Street Journal, is owned by News Corp.
At the moment the first plane hit, I had just finished doing a bit of color commentary on some eminently forgettable technology news for a Boston business station on AM radio.
Some early reports had suggested that news of the technology was in fact an April Fool's joke - but while some reports on 1 April were embellished, there was truth behind the rumours.
Engadget's team of dedicated reporters are seemingly everywhere at CES, covering the breaking product news and scoring the top name interviews that help make the CES experience even more robust for all who follow CES' inspiring innovations and technology news.
In wearable technology news, a brilliant 17-year-old developed a 3D-printed prosthetic arm using Lego bricks and a Nintendo Power Glove, and a new biomimetic fiber inspired by pine cones could lead to activewear that keeps you dryer for longer.
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