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‘The Hobbit’ trailer generates massive online buzz
The release of an official trailer to Peter Jackson’s long-awaited return to Middle Earth has caused enough online buzz to briefly become a trending…
YouTube unveils biggest videos of 2011
YouTube has released its official list of the most watched videos of 2011. Mirroring the results of Google’s Zeitgeist — which revealed the most…
Regulation, education and ‘high impact entrepreneurs’: Q&A with Anthony Farr
Entrepreneurship cannot thrive if it is not given the right environment to do so. That’s according Anthony Farr, CEO of the Allan Gray Orbis…
Google makes four big updates to Google+
Google has made a series of what it calls “big improvements” to its social effort Google+. In an official blog post the internet giant…
Smartphones, geosocial to drive massive growth in mobile social networking
There are around 650-million mobile social media users in the world today. According to Juniper Research, a company specialising in providing research and analysis…
Kim Jong Il death: Twitter reacts
North Korea is something of an enigma. The outside world has little access to the daily workings of the country, internet connections are few,…
India set to reach 1.36bn mobile subscriptions by 2020
India will have an estimated 1.36-billion mobile subscribers by 2020, up from 812-million connections in 2011. That’s according to research from Analysys Mason, a…
Retailer @home caught with its pants down on Facebook
A high-end home equipment store has been caught with its pants down… so to speak. @home — a South African-based retailer that sells furniture,…
Google reveals power of Japanese tsunami through Streetview
Google has launched a brand new site chronicling the devastation of the earthquake and Tsunami that rocked Japan earlier this year, as seen through…
WordPress 3.3 release trends globally
The release of WordPress 3.3, dubbed “Sonny” in honour of renowned Jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt, has generated so much online buzz that it has…
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