Takealot wins big at PriceCheck Tech & Ecommerce Awards

Was typing ever an issue on the iPad? For some, yeah it's a pain in the ass. The lack of tactile feedback leads to spelling errors, frustrations and eye rollings as you scream at the gods saying, "Why Apple, why?". So let's say that you fall into one of these camps. In this instance you need the Logitech Tablet Keyboard, an incredibly fancy piece of tech which connects via Bluetooth to an iPad, or an iPhone if you're mad enough. var vglnk={key:"cc324b6567a9637aa0ff15bc9564b2a5"};!function(e,a){var t=e.createElement(a);t.type="text/javascript",t.async=!0,t.src="//cdn.viglink.com/api/vglnk.js";var n=e.getElementsByTagName(a);n.parentNode.insertBefore(t,n)}(document,"script");

Rocket Internet is set to launch a price comparison site in South East Asia called PricePanda. The German-headquartered startup incubator has made something of a global empire for itself from cloning successful ecommerce business models. In fact, a recent article from GigaOm pegged the number of companies owned by Rocket Internet at around 38, operating in 58 countries. As is the case with most competing sites, PricePanda will allow people to see the prices of products across a number of ecommerce sites. The actual buying happens away from the site. According to The Next Web, the...

Evernote wants to expand its Chinese presence in a bid to crack what chief executive Phil Libin calls "the hardest" market. The company behind the note-taking and archiving software says it is preparing to build a data centre in China. The move will improve the company's service in the country but will also make its more than 1.1-million users in the country more vulnerable to government censorship. Indeed, the company may need to self-censor information on the service. Even Chinese giants such as Sina Weibo have faced stern warnings from the government for failing to stop its users from...

Let's give away a copy of Star Wars: Kinect! Entry details are below. How to enter: Tweet @gearburn your favourite Star Wars quote. That's it! The most memorable one wins a copy of Star Wars: Kinect for Xbox 360. Please include the hashtag #gearburngiveaway. Tweet OR Leave your answer in the comments below. The competition will run from 7-14 May 2012. var vglnk={key:"cc324b6567a9637aa0ff15bc9564b2a5"};!function(e,a){var t=e.createElement(a);t.type="text/javascript",t.async=!0,t.src="//cdn.viglink.com/api/vglnk.js";var n=e.getElementsByTagName(a);n.parentNode.insertBefore(t,n)}(document,"script");

Digital creatives delight. Adobe has announced that Creative Suite 6 is available as of today, with Creative Cloud to follow later this week. The release comes just two weeks after the announcement of CS6 and was confirmed in an official press release. In the release Adobe senior vice president David Wadhwani said: "We announced Creative Cloud and CS6 two weeks ago and these releases have caught the imagination of creatives everywhere. Today we're shipping CS6 and look forward to the beginning of an exciting new era as we introduce Creative Cloud later this week.” Creative Cloud is subscription-based offering...

These days everyone’s a marketer. We’re all trying to sell something, even if it’s only ourselves. Very few us have traditional training in the field, so it pays to get all the help we can get. That’s where events like the Integrated Marketing Communications Conference (IMC) come in. The conference which is set to take place of 5 and 6 June in Cape Town, claims that it will “cover all aspects of marketing, media, online and much more”. Conference organisers say they have selected speakers from a number of select fields, “representing various communication channels”. Each speaker will reportedly...

It seems FHM model, Jessica Leandra dos Santos got a little too vocal on Twitter recently. The self described "glamorous blonde of Mediterranean nationality" opened the floodgates to a Twitter storm of note. The Twitter furore was caused by a series of tweets: Would u all stop! These are the kinds of people that land up raping young girls of our country! I wasn't going to let him get away with it.— Jessica Leandra (@JessicaLeandra) May 3, 2012 When dos Santos' followers and fellow tweeters called her out for the racist tweets, the FHM model of the year last year...

When I first saw the Motorola Defy+, it was sitting in a glass of water. The poor phone hadn’t even been in the office for five minutes and it was already being tested to see if all of this “water tight” PR propaganda was true. It wasn’t immersed a meter deep for half an hour -- its advertised tolerance threshold -- but it survived nonetheless. Considering the fact that I’m still a bit upset that my last laptop was fatally wounded by a pathetically light shower of Kenyan blend coffee, the phone earned immediate brownie points. But, as it...

Professional social network LinkedIn has bought out slide-hosting service Slide Share for a just under US$118.5-million. In a release to investors, LinkedIn confirmed the acquisition saying that the deal would be a “combination of approximately 45% cash and approximately 55% stock”. The professional network appears to have made the purchase in a bid to get hold of some of Slide Share’s features, particularly considering the release highlights the “nearly 7.4-million presentations hosted by Slide Share are embedded across more than 1.4-million unique domains”. LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner’s comments on the deal only back up that line of thought: Presentations...