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3 oddly meaningful animated series on Netflix you should watch

There’s no arguing with the fact that some animated movies have the knack of hitting you straight in the feels. Anything made by the…

Game of Thrones showrunners sign $200m deal with Netflix

The famed Game of Thrones series creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss have left HBO and moved to Netflix in a $200 million movie…

CBS’s Star Trek: Picard is getting host of prequel book material

Once again, the world is getting even more Star Trek, this time in the form of two written prequel series about character Jean-Luc Picard’s…

Doctor Who will stream exclusively on HBO Max in 2020

WarnerMedia’s upcoming streaming service HBO Max will be the exclusive home of Doctor Who when the platform launches next year, a report by Variety revealed…

Lollapalooza music festival will stream live on YouTube this weekend. Watch it here

YouTube will live stream “the biggest performances” from the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago all weekend, the company announced on Wednesday. The four-day event,…

Netflix wants to track smartphone users’ ‘physical activity’ in new test

Netflix is asking users if it can track their devices’ physical activity information, according to users on Twitter and a report by The Next…

Spotify now has more than 230m users worldwide, 108m paid subscribers

Spotify on Wednesday released is Q2 earnings report for 2019 and it looks like more people around the world are choosing the service as…

ShowMax now has servers in Kenya, thanks to SEACOM

Naspers-owned streaming platform ShowMax has announced a new partnership with pan-African data company SEACOM in a bid to improve response times of the service….

Over 90m people now use Netflix worldwide, more shows incoming?

Netflix was probably one of the only companies who didn’t have a wretched 2016. The streaming media company recorded record profits and subscriber figures…

Amazon Prime Video: originals to watch in SA?

Let’s be honest for a second… Amazon knows that many people are only tuning into Prime Video for The Grand Tour. After all, the…

Netflix: this tool tracks which VPNs are blocked

Many Netflix users are familiar with hopping through VPNs and DNS tools in a bid to access foreign versions of the service. But it…

Amazon Prime Video is officially in South Africa

The Amazon Prime Video streaming service has officially gone global, launching in South Africa as well. “Amazon today announced that Amazon Prime Video is…

Grand Tour is most pirated show of all time – report

Amazon’s The Grand Tour, featuring the Top Gear trio, is the most pirated show of all time, surpassing Game of Thrones, according to a…

ShowMax now supports Android TV, PS4 app ‘out soon’

Naspers-owned video streaming service ShowMax has today announced that it now fully supports Android TV devices. This support comes courtesy of an updated Android…

5 things to know about Netflix’s offline downloads

Streaming colossus Netflix has finally revealed download functionality for Netflix, allowing users to store videos on their devices for offline viewing. It’s been a…

Netflix movies, series are now available as offline downloads

Netflix users can now download films and movies to their mobile devices via the app, the streaming service announced. Eddy Wu, the company’s director of product…

Netflix 4K streams are now exclusive to Windows 10, Edge

Netflix has had a 4K streaming option for a while now, being part of its highest pricing tier. In fact, the company was one…

‘Vodacom On Demand’ video service to debut in 2017

Vodacom has had an interesting Monday. After the company announced relatively unchanged half-year earnings, it also unveiled something a bit novel. The company today…

Netflix’s user base climbs to 86m, revenue tops $2bn

Netflix is growing. Quickly. According to the company’s latest earning report, its revenue has topped the US$2-billion mark for the first time. That’s a…

Netflix, Amazon are outspending HBO on TV programming

A new report finds that Netflix and Amazon are outspending several big traditional networks when it comes to TV programming. According to the World TV…

4 features Netflix needs to succeed in emerging markets

Video streaming superstar Netflix has gone from strength to strength in the past few years, expanding dramatically and churning out top-notch original content. However,…

ShowMax launches two-tier streaming service in Kenya

It’s been a great week for African tech. After Pokemon Go was finally made available in 31 of the continent’s countries, Naspers-owned streaming video…

Netflix library reportedly down 50% in four years

Thought the South African version of Netflix was lacking in the content department? Well, it appears that American users are feeling the content squeeze…

GPT 5.2 lands in the API and could reshape how SA builds with AI

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

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