5 Best internships in Kenya.

The Kenyatta administration has said that it will offer tax rebates to companies that offer internships to young Kenyan graduates that are just out of university. So, which are the Kenyan companies to intern at? Here are five of the best.

1. Bamburi

Want to get lots of experience plus a little pocket money on the side? Then Bamburi is no doubt the place to be. It also encourages female interns to apply, especially in the technical and engineering fields.

2. Google.

Google is known to offer generous monthly stipends, plus you get to go to work in jeans and T-shirts,

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Facebook, Microsoft release surveillance data requests from US.

Facebook and Microsoft have struck agreements with the U.S. government to release limited information about the number of surveillance requests they receive. The companies aim to avert a fallout from their users as they far their private data could be sold off to US intelligence agencies.

Facebook became the first to release aggregate numbers of requests, saying that it received between 9,000 and 10,000 U.S. requests for user data in the second half of 2012, covering 18,000 to 19,000 of

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Google launches cheap internet for Africa, South Asia.

Google has launched internet balloons; a service it hopes would bring internet to the world’s ‘marginalized regions’ in Africa and South Asia. Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons will also provide internet to rural areas in the developed world, where internet service providers shy away from serving because of lack of ‘profit incentives’. 

If successful, the technology might allow countries to leapfrog the expense of laying fibre cable,

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