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Does my startup need a health and safety guy? Yes. Yes, it does

When first starting out in business, the temptation can be to run headlong into making your product and your brand as popular as possible…

Is the Hyundai Ioniq the hybrid to finally topple the Toyota Prius?

The hybrid is no longer an unusual automobile. But, interestingly, the vast majority of the world’s modern examples are based on existing, conventionally fuelled…

Meet the SA-born chaps who built a Slack for developers

Chat rooms used to be popular hangouts for cyber dating, gaming and a whole bunch of things. Today, they’ve undergone a professional makeover. They’ve…

5 things I learned taking the Suzuki Vitara on holiday

Late last year, we gave you our first impressions of the Suzuki Vitara, the new compact crossover from the Japanese manufacturer. By and large,…

Want to increase sales in 2016? Here are 5 mCommerce strategies you can’t ignore

If you are planning to deploy mobile commerce in 2016, there are certain key elements that you will need to get right in order…

6 ways Microsoft can improve the Xbox One system software

The Xbox One has been out for a few years now and received its first major software overhaul last year. While this new Windows…

Memeburn geeks out over NerdNab’s second box of goodies [video]

South African bi-monthly loot goodie company, NerdNad, is back with either second offering. The first one wasn’t all that spectacular and a bit of…

Proline A933L tablet review: a basement Windows bargain

Tablets are slowly becoming the jack of all trade devices we all thought they would. They’ve murdered netbooks and have made large laptops even…

Q.U.B.E: Director’s Cut review: it’s hip to be cubed

Valve’s Portal was the unintentional gem of the Half-Life Orange Box. The title was a sleeper hit and soon everyone — gamers and non-gamers…

13 things I wish I’d known before starting a startup

I have been blessed to own several businesses in my time, working across industries and sectors, from sports to hospitality and property development. I…

Weekly Round Up #33: Facebook’s M, Moments app, Cortana for Android and #StrongerthantheRand

Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days. This week on BurnCast, Stuart Thoma…

Monster coupe top trumps! Mercedes-AMG C 63 Coupe versus BMW M4

BMW’s hottest 4 Series has been tearing up stretches of tarmac around the world since early in 2014, providing plenty of high-performance thrills to…

AG Ghost review: you can do better for less

Here’s the thing about the AG Ghost: as tempting as it is to review it as a R5000 phone, you just can’t. That’s not…

LexNove is almost like Tinder for legal services

The founders of new South African attorney-to-client match-making platform LexNove have been involved in a couple of online legal-oriented ventures in the past few…

Elizabeth Gould, Derrick Kotze on the need to catalyse collaboration in Africa

Memeburn recently sat down with Elizabeth Gould (pictured right), the CEO of programming academy CodeX, and Derrick Kotze who’s the CEO of African developer…

Building merchant-consumer trust is vital for ecommerce success

Trust: It may be a two-way street regarding interpersonal relationships, and challenging enough to maintain between human beings. But shift this intangible quality to…

Justin Wilson dies following Pocono shunt: the motorsport roundup

It has been a difficult weekend in motorsport. Although the Belgian Grand Prix reignited the final phase of the Formula 1 season, in the…

The Flock: the game with a death-dependent self-destruct button

In recent years there has been a great increase in the number of indie gaming studios and this has resulted in a market saturated…

Who will win the battle of Nigeria’s online classifieds?

First it was ecommerce with Jumia and Konga fighting neck-to-neck, then the attention went to the online marketplace space with the likes of Kaymu,…

Cracking the nut: An indie game startup’s mission to balance passion and profit

Starting your own video game startup is a tough nut to crack. Given South Africa’s relatively small online community and few investors looking at…

Samsung Galaxy Note 5: Sammy proves it has no idea what it’s doing anymore

At the turn of the decade, Samsung made a bold move of launching a large screened smartphone just at the world woke with a…

5 upcoming games in 2015 we can’t wait to play

The year 2015 has brought us some phenomenal video games titles so far. We got to parkour our way through the zombie infested street…

Springleap’s Trevor Wolfe talks agencies, startups, and pivots [Q&A]

For a long time now the line between startups and agencies has been blurring. With tech and product becoming so incorporated into daily operations…

OpenAI Quietly Launches ChatGPT-5 — And It’s a Game Changer

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Aura Edition Review: A Sleek, AI-Powered Ultrabook for the Work-Anywhere Era

WeThinkCode_ and South Cape TVET College Bring Software Engineering Training to Rural SA Youth

Fintura Heads to Silicon Valley After Winning SA Startup World Cup

Capitec and Mama Money Launch Fintech Partnership to Empower Migrant Workers Across Africa

Flow Unveils World’s First Shoppable Audience Marketplace – A Fintech-Led Revolution in Digital Targeting

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel