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Facebook unveils top 25 games of 2012, Zynga’s slide continues
Facebook has announced its 25 top rated games for 2012 and Zynga which you would once have expected to dominate such a list doesn’t…
Social capitalism: the real winners will be able to engage with ‘the 99%’
“We are the 99%!” was one of the more popular refrains at the #Occupy protests which took place around the globe in 2011. The…
A new Yahoo! is nearly upon us, here’s what it might look like
Yahoo!’s home page is set for a radical redesign. And, according to AllThingsD, it’s nearing completion. The design reportedly borrows heavily from Windows 8…
SA hackers claim world first with tweeting hamster
This is kind of cute. It’s a hamster. That tweets. Sort of. Unfortunately, no one’s managed to teach a hamster to type out tweets…
100 SA sites hacked by ‘Moroccan Ghosts’
Some 100 South African websites have been hacked, allegedly in retaliation to the country’s support for the Algerian-funded Polisario Front. The organisation is a…
Microsoft reportedly set to bake music player into SkyDrive
Google’s done it, so has Apple and Amazon. Hell it even looks like BlackBerry’s getting in on the action. Now Microsoft looks set to…
20 African news startups you really have to know about
Countries around the African continent have a chance to do something really special when it comes to news innovation. With a highly mobile literate…
Tour the Okavango Delta with Google Street View
Anyone who’s a fan of nature documentaries knows that Botswana’s Okavango Delta is one of the world’s most unique wildlife regions. Now you can…
Samsung gets sued again, this time by Ericsson
Samsung appears to be surrounded on all fronts in the smartphone patent wars. The latest company to take issue with South Korean tech giant…
Safaricom takes MPesa into microloans space
Kenyan mobile carrier Safaricom is set to launch a new service that will let people on its MPesa platform save and borrow money from…
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