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The tech world's eyes are glued firmly on China, and with good reason too. It has the world's largest online population. And despite, or perhaps because of, a series of controls colloquially known as the Great Firewall of China, it is home to some of the world's largest social networks.Once ...

Think General Motors', now reversed, decision to pull its Facebook advertising had the industry rattled? Think again.Social media is set to bring in US$16.9-billion in 2012, over half of which will come from advertising.According to tech research company Gartner social revenue is up 43.1% from 2011 ...

If you were looking forward to Microsoft announcing that it would be going after Amazon tonight, sorry. You're going to have to readjust your expectations.According to Dow Jones, via Business Insider, the idea that the event would have something to do with the book seller is "not true at ...

Big brother watching. Thing is, it's not the made up avatar of an overarching, all-powerful, state. It's far more likely that it's a piece of software implemented by your company to see what you've been doing on social media.In fact, some 60% of corporations are expected to implement ...

The mobile payment wars are hotting up. Players are introducing smartphone apps, products that let you pay someone as long as you're near them, and experimenting with NFC. Small wonder that the amount of money transferred via mobile is set to explode.Of course mobile payments have been around for ...

Samsung is winning the mobile wars and at the same time helping Android kill in the mobile OS stakes. Thing is all of the players in the game of phones are competing for a smaller market.According to research company Gartner, some 419.1-million mobile phones sold in the first few ...

The world is changing and tech is changing with it. Over the next 10 years the global tech market will be completely redefined as people's values and expectations evolve.These new expectations and values will shaped by global economics, technology itself, and social change. How this change takes ...

Emerging markets are where it’s at when it comes to tech. They’re where the next billion internet users will come from and some even reckon that the next wave of world-changing startups will come from within them.Small wonder then that they’re set generate over US$1-trillion in IT spend this ...

Dropbox, Apple iCloud, Mezeo...There are a fair number of personal cloud products out there and they’ve changed the way we view storage. Taking your documents with you once meant carrying physical storage devices everywhere you went. Now all you need is an internet connection.Thing is, we all know ...

We all know social media plays an important role in the way businesses communicate with each other and the general public. That's old hat by now. It could, however, also play an increasingly important role in the way businesses deal with a crisis.Tech research company Gartner reckons that by ...