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…
Weekly Round Up #51: SONA, Twitter Q4 results, French giant AXA buys stake at AIG, Quantum Break
Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days. This week on BurnCast, Senior…
Tigo Tanzania is giving its cutomers free access to WhatsApp
While MTN and Vodacom are waging war on OTTs like WhatsApp, Viber, Skype, Hangouts and so on in South Africa, in other markets telecommunications…
Slack releases diversity report, records an increase since last report
In its latest diversity report, Slack, the team collaboration app, reveals stats on its own efforts towards a diverse company structure. The company’s efforts…
WhatsApp gains 100m monthly active users in three months, passes 1b like a boss
WhatsApp has reached one billion monthly active users. One billion users means one in seven people in the world can be found furiously typing…
Uber users in China can now pay with Alipay when travelling
With an actual population of over 1.4 billion and an internet population of 649 million internet users by the end of 2014, with 557…
Weekly Round Up #49: Startup news from SA, new iPhone, Facebook and Apple earnings
Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days. This week on BurnCast, Senior…
Jack Dorsey gives a pep talk to keep the fire burning at Twitter
Things appear pretty salty over at Twitter right now, no thanks to the recent exodus of high-ranking executives. This was the second round of…
IDC: people are still buying smartphones in their billions
The rate at which smartphones ship is incredible. And with more and more people joining the list of smartphone owners, the shipment of phones…
Facebook Q4 and full year 2015 results are on fleek, 1.59bn MAU, 100m hours of video watched a day
Facebook reported its fourth quarter results, ending 31 December 2015, and full year 2015 earnings today. Nobody really expected Facebook to do badly but…
Apple Q1 results a mixed bag, iPhone sales at 74.8m, iPad sales drop, revenue up
Apple earnings are always a huge event but they are hardly ever exciting. Apple reports record sales and high revenue and everyone is left…
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