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Ronan Steyn has a love for all things technology, with a particular focus on startups, gadgets and games. When not writing the good write, he can be found making films or purveying the latest gadget, game or film. At night he attempts an MA in Screenwriting at UCT. A firm believer that video is the future of the web, he hopes to be at the forefront of online multimedia in Africa.
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Demo Day has come and gone for African startup accelerator 88mph and the ten startups that completed their intensive three month acceleration programme, capped off with a beautiful Cape Town sunset.The ten startups that presented on the day began the programme three months ago, and through the process they moulded (some even changed) their ideas into marketable, scalable companies with the hopes of achieving follow-on funding.Taking the rise of Africa's mobile market into account, 88mph places its investment focus ...
In 2010 China was the place of choice for foreign investment in the tech sector. Fast forward to today and it's an IPO ghost town, with less money and deals than a mid-level casino. At the heart of this "decline" in foreign interest are a number of factors.The Next Web states that political unrest, audit checks and internet censorship are but a few reasons for investor hesitation while Bloomberg pips rising employee and land costs as lowering China's "attractiveness as ...
Nedbank is aiming to compete with FNB's dotFNB stores -- a kind of cashless branch that operates as part bank, part retail experience -- with the launch of their La Lucia Mall Branch in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.The branch marks part of the South African bank's "Branch of the Future" roll-out of state-of-the-art technology designed to provide products and services for both individual and business needs for new and existing clients.‘In keeping with our client centred approach, we understand that ...
The European Union's Competition Commissioner, Joaquin Almunia, has received another complaint about Google -- this time with regards to how it runs its mobile software business and the Android operating system.The complaint claims that Google's mobile operating system (OS) promotes Google's own products and services on many Android-supported smartphones.The latest Smartphone Platform Market Share shows that Android controls 51.7% of the US market, indicating that its competitors would have ample reason to be upset if they felt Google was ...
Personalised ecommerce. It's all about data.Every click, purchase, like, share or pin executed on a website has the potential to allude to your tastes. How eshops use that information effectively is a tricky business indeed.But now, the age of collected and then curated information, is upon us -- and we're here to help you.One could argue that there are two divisions of personalised ecommerce. They aren't necessarily distinct in that their end-goal is the same ...
No it wasn't a joke. The objections to Apple's 'iPad Mini' Trademark Application issued on 1 April by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) were all too real. These objections though, one week later, have officially been withdrawn.According to MacRumours the primary objection, related to the 'iPad mini' name being determined as "descriptive" rather than a distinctive product name was removed as well as the secondary objection, relating to the use of the iPad mini overview ...
At first glance you probably wouldn't think that there is money to be made off the unemployed. After all, no jobs means no money, right? For the most part perhaps, but the US$400 billion recruitment industry might beg to differ.Technology has the ability to eat into industry revenues and professional social network LinkedIn stands the best chance to take a bite out of the recruitment market. But for the most part, the industry is alive and well.Read more ...
Twitter archive adds Danish, Filipino, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Urdu— Twitter (@twitter) March 21, 2013Twitter's archive feature is now available in a dozen new languages including Russian, Portuguese, Japanese and Simplified Chinese.The archive feature, announced back in December, allows users to download all their tweets ever, from time in memoriam... or more accurately the date of joining the microblogging service.A Twitter blog post from December had this to say about its archive feature: "Over ...
There are two parties going on in the photo-sharing-platform world. The first party is outgoing, social, and the more guests talk and share between themselves (and with their friends outside the party), the better. This type of party often only has one or a few tricks (filters, effects), and prefers to rely on the social nature of their guests to provide entertainment and thrive. These are the photo-social platforms and their king is Instagram.Read more on Ventureburn.
Never mind piracy, music artists have another problem to worry about when it comes to receiving their hard-earned royalties. This problem is actually ingrained in the music industry itself as it's prevalent in one of its fastest growing areas - Music Licensing.This problem is something called retitling.A recent infographic report published by The Music Licensing Directory reveals a rather complex situation, especially with regards to the contracts signed between artists, labels and publishers. The report states that retitling is:"where ...
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