Emerging Markets

Music service Deezer hits 22 more countries in emerging market hotspots

Well, Deezer is certainly on a roll. The music streaming service announced recently that it is now available in a massive 128 countries worldwide,…

China’s Qihoo hit with unfair competition warning, apps removed

Internet security and software company Qihoo, one of Baidu’s main competitors in the search space, isn’t having a good week: its apps have been…

Is the rise of WeChat and weibos helping to slow SMS growth in China?

When a country is home to more than a billion cellphone users, you start to expect the record growth to continue to every area…

The Memeburn interview: Google exec on the future of the ‘third screen’

We currently live in the world of three screens. We are connected to our PCs, mobile phones and tablets, and soon there will be…

9 Chinese tech companies that could go public in 2013

2011 saw economic turmoil and financial scandals that led to only two Chinese tech companies venturing to IPO in 2012. But 2013 is looking…

China’s online population rises to 477 million

China’s spiralling online numbers have turned the internet into a forum for citizens to express their opinions, albeit covertly. The number of internet users…

Social Media, a non-event at this year’s World Economic Forum on Africa

Social media was certainly officially present, but not fussed over at the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa which was held in Cape…

Facebook’s India-style viral curve in Brazil

If history proves a guide, Facebook will soon take over from Orkut as Brazil’s dominant social network. The curves on this graph show a…

Social media in China: The same, but different

Much has been written of late about the Chinese government’s efforts to control and censor the internet. The government’s censorship of websites is an…

Africa is the fastest growing Facebook continent

Africa may not have the numbers of Facebook users that more developed continents do, but the continent is rising fast. According to Facebook-analysis site,…

Instead of smallpox Google is colonising Africa with ‘cool stuff’

Sitting at the southern tip of Africa you get used to giving a resigned shrug and half-smile when the entire continent gets lumped into…

Five red-hot Indian tech startups

China’s enormous internet population has been getting quite a bit of press lately, but India is undoubtedly as much of an emerging world internet…

Can India produce the world’s cheapest tablet?

The Indian government won headlines around the world when it unveiled a prototype $US35 tablet computer in July, but questions are now growing over…

Five difficulties facing startups in China

There’s a legend about a Chinese monk who, after years of meditating atop a high, isolated mountain, envisioned the world’s first circular disk. Careful…

How to build global technology companies from Africa

During a relaxed and informal panel discussion at the Tech4Africa conference in Johannesburg entitled “Building for the Global Market. Lessons and learnings from the…

ClawDBot: The AI That’s Quietly Taking Over South African WhatsApp

Crypto Enters 2026 With New Momentum And A Very Different Mood

Why South African Parents Are Turning Chores Into Games

Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

Simbi Wabote’s 10-Year Roadmap: How Nigeria Achieved 54% Local Content Growth

Records Tumble In Best Year Yet For South Africa’s Hedge Fund Industry

OPPO Reno15 Series Lands In South Africa With Big Cameras And Bigger Battery Ambitions

OPPO Reno15 Series Brings Flagship-Level Hardware Logic to the Mid-Tier in South Africa

HONOR’s customer first strategy is reshaping South Africa’s smartphone market

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel