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Want a really productive business? Make sure your employees have great digital workspaces
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FNB to give away a million eBucks to celebrate app’s third birthday
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Does Snapchat’s future lie in peer to peer payments?
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Can this Kickstarter help selfies leave the Earth?
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Facebook wants to know if ‘this post feels like an ad’
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Can tech help us turn neighborhoods back into communities? OurHood thinks so
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3 reasons why big government tech projects can fail hard
Anyone who’s ever tackled a big online project knows just how much capacity there is for things to go spectacularly wrong. It’s bad enough…
Here’s what a World Cup penalty shootout looks like on Twitter
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Can this guy survive a month using only R1 coins?
Cast your mind back to the late 1990s and mid 2000s and you might recall a series of experiments involving people trying to survive…
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