F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
WhatsApp rolls out full end-to-end encryption to its billion users
WhatsApp, the Facebook owned instant chat platform, is rolling out its full end-to-end encryption, ensuring that each message, photo, video, file, voice message, group…
Facebook now lets the visually impaired consume images using audio descriptions
Today Facebook launched a product that aims to make the Facebook experience better for the visually impaired. It’s called automatic alternative text, and is…
Introducing Privil: the app to help you keep your privilege in check [April Fools article]
Privil, a new app for iOS and Android devices, promises to keep user’s privilege in check. Grandt Sham, founder, notes in a press release…
YouTube: brands and South African YouTubers should cozy up
Last night, YouTube hosted an event in Cape Town in which it played matchmaker between South African YouTubers and brands. The event saw some…
Instagram increases video length to 60 seconds on iOS, Android
Instagram wants its users to post more videos, a trend that its parent company Facebook, has been focusing on lately. To enable this, the…
Uber South Africa created 4000 jobs, travelled over 93m kilometres since launch
Uber has been in South Africa for a good two-and-a-half years now, and is available in five cities, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, Durban…
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice makes over $424m in its opening weekend [update]
Update: This article has been updated to include additional information for South African cinemas. Critics have hammered the latest DC Comics movie, Batman v Superman: Dawn…
Periscope celebrates first birthday, 200m broadcasts to date
Periscope, the Twitter owned live video streaming service, celebrated its first year online this past weekend. Compared to Twitter, which turned 10 recently, Periscope…
All is not well at Pebble, as it lays off 25% of its total staff
Pebble, the revolutionary smartwatch company that launched after a successful Kickstarter campaign, is laying off 25% of its total staff in a move that…
Alibaba sold goods worth $476bn in fiscal year 2015
For the fiscal year ending 30 March 2016, Alibaba’s China retail marketplace platforms sold goods worth more than 3 trillion yuan, about US$476-billion. This…
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