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This London shoe shop worker wants to crowdfund Greece’s financial bailout
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This Samurai Jack fan tribute will get devotees seriously excited
It’s been 11 years since there was last a new Samurai Jack episode. And there’s no clear sense of when, or even if, the…
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The TomTom Runner Cardio came to me at exactly the wrong time. You see, I usually run around four times a week, with a…
Visa denies Fundamo shut down, some operations to move to Bangalore
Visa denies that it is about to shutdown Fundamo, the mobile payments company it bought for US$110-million in cash five years ago. That’s contrary…
Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket explode in mid-air
Space X’s Falcon 9 programme has had its first ever failure. Two minutes and 19 seconds after taking off on Sunday, a Falcon 9…
English-language version of ‘social petwork’ launches first in SA
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Facebook to partner with Cell C for free internet in SA
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Suffer from vertigo? You’ll hate Google’s El Capitan Street View
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Snapchat wants you to know it’s very, very serious about ads
This has an air of inevitability about it. Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel has released an infomercial aimed at showing advertisers just how serious it…
Social media, messaging apps driving global mobile money adoption
It’s hardly news that mobile is important to emerging economies. Stories of those countries lepfrogging older technologies have been told so many times that…
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