Three companies will dominate digital Africa for the next decade. The first is Facebook. The mobile site was zero-rated in 2010—that is, made free of data charges. The second company is Google. Google’s most interesting initiative is with languages. There are over 100 African languages with 1m or more speakers, and Google wants to offer knowledge, transaction services, and entertainment in all of them.
The third big player in Africa’s digital revolution is Nokia. Apple is nowhere in Africa and shows little interest in democratisation, but Nokia is facing stiff competition at the top of the market from BlackBerry,

Google Celebrates Valentine’s Day With Pop Art Logo: Google is wishing its users a “Happy Valentine’s Day” with a colorful, pop art-inspired logo based on an image by artist Robert Indiana. The Valentine’s Day Google logo borrows the same typeface and color scheme Indiana employed in his 1964 LOVE design, which was used for the Museum Of Modern Art’s holiday card…