Tech Roundup: MWC, #FiorinaForPrez and Facebook City

News:

Snapshot: Fight! Amazon and Alibaba Clash Over Foreign Markets

Roundup: MWC, #FiorinaForPrez and Facebook City

Friday Rant: That Evil Electric Bin...

Regional Insight:

The Slums to Riches Startup Journey of Interview Mocha

Female South African ICT Leader Inspiring Black Woman in the Industry

YellowPepper Heats up LatAm m-Payments

My Life as a Tech Teacher - Part 1

Playing Assassin's Creed With Eye-Tracking Tech

Welcome to this week's tech roundup. This week, find out how Amazon and Alibaba are fighting to conquer the world's biggest markets and get regional insight from India, Africa, LatAm, Australia, and Europe as well as IDG Connect's exclusive roundup of the week's tech news. Plus, we rant about the obnoxious behaviour of the electric kitchen bin.

Interview Mocha: A 'Slumdog Entrepreneur'

Amravati is a little known town in central India and at the center of it there is a little known slum. Amit Mishra, co-founder of SaaS startup, Interview Mocha, was born and brought up in this slum, where his parents still reside. Read this article to learn about how he noticed a gap in the recruitment market and now his startup is attracting customers from all over the globe.

South Africa: Being Black and Female in Tech

As a young girl growing up in rural Eastern Cape, Xoliswa Kakana's daily dawn-to-sunset routine included herding her grandmother's sheep across village plains. Fast forward a few decades and not only has Kakana become a developer of a variety of technologies, she is also a noteworthy leader within South Africa's ICT industry. See this interview as Kakana shares her experiences with the hope of encouraging other aspiring black women in the industry.

CEO of YellowPepper: Changing Payment Culture of LatAm

Serge Elkiner's story epitomises the way that globalisation is creating opportunities for technology entrepreneurs. When Elkner co-founded YellowPepper, he chose to focus on countries like Ecuador, Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia and Peru rather than joining the scrum of competitors in North America.Read his interview here to discover how he plans to change the payments culture of LatAm with YellowPepper's Yepex mobile wallet.

Teaching Kids Programming: One Journalist's Attempt

Picture a small rural school in New Zealand surrounded by farms and with an adventure playground and swimming pool. Journalist Alex Cruickshank wants to teach the children here how to understand computers and program them, not just use them. Find out how Cruickshank plans to teach the children formal logic, an awareness of how computers work, and the mental tools to understand how any given computing system works.

Eye-Tracking in Games: The Next Analogue Stick?

Since time immortal (in gaming terms) the rules around cameras have been simple. If you wanted to look left or right, you had to move a mouse, d-pad or stick in your chosen direction. But what if it was possible to move the camera by simply looking in your desired direction? Read this piece to discover how Swedish company Tobii tech's eye-tracking device worked with Assassin's Creed and its potential beyond gaming.

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