Weekly Roundup #03: SA digital agency landscape, iPhone 6 and BMW’s new hybrid car

Welcome to our Weekly Roundup, our weekly podcast that discusses tech trends, innovation and news. Joining this podcast edition are brand manager Jason Bechervaise, reporter Andy Walker and managing editor Mich Atagana.

This week we’re chatting about some the tech world’s top happenings of late; from Memeburn’s bible of South Africa digital agency landscape to the iPhone 6 launching in SA and Air New Zealand’s safety instruction video going viral.

Over the past few years we’ve seen these agencies merge, buy and sell, as to create a very colourful and exhaustive industry. Senior staff reporter Stuart Thomas went on a bold mission to map out the country’s fast-growing digital agency scene.

Major South African telecom Vodacom was the first to launch Apple’s latest and greatest flagship smartphones. The iPhone 6 has a minimum price of R499 while the much larger iPhone 6 Plus starts at R599 on contract. Read all about the details over at Gearburn.

Over on Motorburn we looked at BMW’s new hybrid supercar that’s said to hit the roads in 2017 at a suspected price of US$400 000. This half electric, half petrol beast will go from 0-100km/h in 3.5 seconds.

Kiwi airliner managed to grab the web’s attention (and shares) with its The Lord of The Rings safety instruction video. Furthermore, Facebook launched a new app, called Rooms — an anonymous chatroom platform that’s currently available for the iPhone, looking very curious.

Either way, listen for yourself:

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