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Japan really loves ‘Castle in the Sky’, sets massive new Twitter record
A new tweets per second record has been set. No there wasn’t a world-shifting news event or sporting triumph you were unaware of, the…
South Africa’s Mail & Guardian goes digital first, warns of possible retrenchments
The Mail & Guardian, one of South Africa’s largest independent news organisations, is set to adopt a digital first approach. And while the news…
Facebook apparently readying PayPal competitor, aiming at mobile purchases
Facebook is apparently testing a payments product that will allow users to make purchases on online apps by using their login to the social…
Google to let you check flight statuses, package info in the near future
If you want to know whether your flight is delayed or where exactly that package you ordered a few days ago is, you could…
Space X’s Grasshopper can now move sideways [video]
This is probably the coolest thing SpaceX’s already very cool Grasshopper rocket has done so far. The spacecraft, which is capable of vertical takeoff…
Check out the man behind Obama’s online campaign live in South Africa
It’s no secret that US president Barack Obama’s campaigns have used online and social media pretty damn well. And now South Africa will have…
Instagram now lets you upload clips saved on your phone
So you think Instagram video’s pretty cool, but what about all those awesome video clips you have saved on your phone? Well now those…
Wikipedia to roll out HTTPS by default on some time in August
If you think that Edward Snowden’s various acts of whistle-blowing aren’t changing the web in any way, take a look at this. The Wikimedia…
Mxit: now with live South African soccer games
This is pretty cool. Anyone using the mobile social network Mxit can now get real-time information on games from South Africa’s Premier Soccer League…
Ex Facebook CTO Bret Taylor launches Quip, a mobile word processor
Among the wave of employees who left Facebook when the social network went public last year, perhaps the biggest exit was CTO Bret Taylor….
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