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La Maison Blanche a annoncé dans un communiqué, lundi 20 mai, que le président Barack Obama se rendrait du 26 juin au 3 juillet au Sénégal, en Afrique du Sud et en Tanzanie. Une première tournée africaine pour celui dont le discours d'Accra, en 2009, est resté dans les mémoires.

Business, sécurité, diplomatie... Un demi-siècle après la création de l'OUA - et un peu moins de trente ans après s'en être retiré -, le Maroc n'a jamais été aussi présent au sud du Sahara.

Alongside the Tumblr acquisition, Yahoo is taking off the wraps on one of its earlier acquisitions. Image-sharing service Flickr gets a major hi-resolution makeover with a new app for Android users. 

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US President Barack Obama will visit Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania in his first extended tour of sub-Saharan Africa, the White House says.

This beautiful, glittering swirl is named, rather unpoetically, J125013.50+073441.5. A glowing haze of material seems to engulf the galaxy, stretching out into space in different directions and forming a fuzzy streak in this image. It is a starburst galaxy — ...

“Social business” has become a popular buzzword, but what are the processes and best practices that successful social businesses use to boost profits, decrease expenses and increase customer satisfaction? A new report from IBM aimed to find out. 

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Navigating social media sites can be quite a task, but Pinterest aims to improve how users use the content sharing website with a new feature that will prove useful to brands and companies: information pins.

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Traditional media companies are attempting to transform themselves into digital media companies, but for those who still publish newspapers and print magazines, Atex has updated its OneView advertising system for ads online and on paper.

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 While concerns over cloud deployments are now a thing of the past, the cloud is still proving difficult for many enterprises. In fact, new research form Oracle shows that the dual promise of business efficiency and IT agility is still eluding many enterprises.

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About 120 militant Islamists are arrested in Maiduguri as they organise the funeral of a commander, the Nigerian army says.

You’ll often need to explain the goals of your Enterprise Content Management (ECM) program in more detail than an elevator pitch. Here are the objectives and guiding principles applicable to most ECM programs.

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À l'appel du collectif Sauvons le Togo (CST), un groupe de femmes a manifesté seins nus, samedi 18 mai, devant le local de la gendarmerie nationale à Lomé, en marge d'une marche pacifique pour dénoncer le décès en détention de l'opposant Étienne Yakanou.

An unknown mathematician, Yitang Zhang, has revolutionized his field and helped move forward a 2,000-year-old conjecture about prime numbers. His counterintuitive findings show that special pairs of primes, called twin primes, can never be more than 70 million places away ...

Web stat geeks will be stoked about Google Analytics updates that include real time widgets and interactive insights that help define how customers really decide to finally make a purchase.

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Business intelligence and strategic analytics provider, Alteryx has announced US$ 12 million in funding that will be used to help with company growth.

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There is much written on the virtues and triumphs of mapping customer journeys, but little about what can go awry.

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Senda Ould Boumama, porte-parole d'Ansar Eddine, s'est rendu samedi soir aux forces mauritaniennes, a affirmé une source sécuritaire lundi 20 mai.

À la veille des célébrations du 50e anniversaire de la création de l'Organisation de l'unité africaine (OUA) et du sommet des chefs d'État qui doit se tenir à Addis-Abeba, l'administration de la Commission de l'UA est secouée par des guerres internes. La nouvelle patronne, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, est dans le collimateur de certains fonctionnaires qui regrettent son prédécesseur.

Depuis l'hospitalisation d'Abdelaziz Bouteflika à Paris il y a un peu plus de trois semaines, la présidence algérienne se montre extrêmement discrète sur l'état de santé du chef de l'État. Cette stratégie du silence, orchestrée par Saïd Bouteflika, le frère du président, est dorénavant largement critiquée par les médias algériens.

In a series of surveys last year of more than 1,000 SharePoint administrators and business professionals, much was learned about how people "perceived" their organizations to be handling their SharePoint governance strategy. The data showed a large gap between those perceptions and what governance actually looked like inside businesses. 

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