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Paid digital satellite TV service DStv is teaming up with internet service provider MWEB to give its subscribers 6GB of ADSL data as well as one free movie download.The movies will come from the satellite TV provider's Box Office offering, which gives people access to major Hollywood films fresh ...

This is potentially very big. Chinese internet giant Tencent is looking to take its massively successful instant messaging service WeChat to South Africa, where it will take on the likes of Mxit, Africa's largest mobile social network.WeChat has seen phenomenal growth in recent times. Last week, Tencent revealed that ...

Naspers has dumped its Indian classifieds platform TradusAds in favour of the internationally renowned OLX, the world’s largest free classified site with over 130 million unique visitors per month.The move appears to be part of an effort on the part of the emerging markets internet and media giant to consolidate ...

Online classified sites are big business these days. There's a reason have been accused of killing the newspaper industry. Now one of the biggest of them all is making a new play in the app world.Global classifieds giant OLX has launched a free iPad app, which it claims is ...

Instagram’s a pretty big mobile social network. A user base now sitting somewhere north of the 30-million mark is nothing to be sneezed at. Thing is, big as Instagram is it’s nowhere near the biggest.In fact, emerging markets are killing when it comes to mobile social networks. Around half ...

This has the potential to be big. It’s a new eCommerce tool that allows users to “create an online shop in minutes”. The new service, called QikCommerce, is a joint venture between MIH -- the investment arm of US$18-billion emerging markets internet giant Naspers -- and a small ...

Chinese internet giant Tencent is already a dominant player in the online space. It owns a number of chat properties, microblogging sites, social networks, and multiplayer online gaming portals both in China and around the world. Turns out that’s not enough.The company, which is part-owned by emerging markets internet ...

After initial reports that she had been fired, Google’s Kenya head Olga Arara-Kimani now claims she left the internet-giant of her own accord.Kenyan tech-news blog Nairobitech was the first to report that Arara-Kimani had been fired over the Mocality scandal.The scandal, which saw the Naspers-owned business directory accusing ...

Russia’s answer to Twitter is reportedly attracting users in their thousands. Owned by the Mail.ru group, Futubura attracted some 17 000 users within 24 hours of launching, Russian state news agency Ria Novosti reported.When the public beta launch of Futubura was announced, Mail.ru CEO Dmitry Grishin released a statement ...

Another day, and another Groupon clone bites the dust. After a whirlwind gold-rush to emulate the incredible success of Groupon, there has been nothing but bad news in a recession-hit economy for the hundreds of thousands of group-buying clones out there. (Yes, we know there are exceptions).Emerging markets media and ...