On January 20, 2025, during President Donald Trump’s inauguration festivities at Washington D.C.’s Capital One Arena, Elon Musk made a hand gesture that ignited…
Apple dealing with ‘the mother of all backlogs’
A healthy dose of good news were mixed in with a few worries this week, as Apple reported that it had nearly doubled its…
Zuckerberg wears a tie as Obama visits Facebook
US President Barack Obama paid a campaign-style visit to Facebook headquarters on Wednesday where he urged young voters who backed his historic 2008 election…
Washington Post launches social media enabled news aggregation site
Curation and aggregation of news on the web is one of the most contentious topics in online media today. On Wednesday, the Washington Post…
Vodacom and Mxit to host the Mobile Media Mindblast conference with Google
The three biggest players in South African mobile marketing are hosting the first ever Mobile Media Mindblast on 3 June 2011 in Cape Town….
Obama visits Facebook headquarters
President Barack Obama will head to Facebook’s headquarters on Wednesday to tout his budget cuts to followers of the social media powerhouse, which he…
Nigeria unseats South Africa as Africa’s biggest Opera Mini user
Software company Opera, announced yesterday that Nigeria has taken the place of South Africa as the country in Africa with the highest number of…
ProPublica wins Pulitzer with digital-only series
For the first time ever, a Pulitzer Prize was awarded for a ‘digital-only’ story. ProPublica, a non-profit news startup, scooped up a Pulitzer Prize…
Chinese social network IPO hopes to raise $583-million
China’s most popular social network Renren filed for an initial public offering in the United States on Friday in the hopes of raising as…
Net Prophet offers mentorship opportunity to budding tech startups
Net Prophet, South Africa’s technology startup event, is offering promising technology start-up ventures the opportunity to receive three free days of personal hands-on mentoring…
African developers to compete on innovative Android mobile apps
Every day more than 300 000 Android devices are activated globally. A growing number of these mobile device activations are in markets across Africa,…
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