Interviews

WhatsApp launches short film about NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo

Is WhatsApp making movies? Social App WhatsApp has commissioned its very first film project with Nigerian NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo. The Meta-owned company has…

Kristofer Hivju Q&A: Actor shares insights on his role as Nivellen in The Witcher Season 2

Season 2 of The Witcher hits Netflix on 17 December, with the streaming company treating fans to glimpses at what’s in store through trailers…

Q&A: SA director Jaco Bouwer on ecological horror in new film ‘Gaia’

Mother Nature can be terrifying when she wants to be, as she is depicted in the new South Africa film, Gaia. The new local…

EskomSePush: developing a load shedding success story

Load shedding apps first came to the fore in 2014, back when it was common practice for our glorious electricity provider to switch off…

Meet Triggerfish: Cape Town’s Oscar-nominated animation studio

Thirty-five minutes outside Cape Town’s CBD lies an unobtrusive farmhouse nestled beneath the Constantiaberg. A decade ago, it housed old-fashioned horse-drawn carriages and 19th…

Takealot CEO Kim Reid chats Black Friday, the ‘War Room’ and fidget spinners

“I think it’s grown over time” is how Takealot CEO Kim Reid describes Black Friday. And he’s not wrong. In November 2016, South African…

BBM CEO: we can be ‘one of the two’ top chat apps in South Africa

Remember BBM? That once iconic acronym stood for BlackBerry Messenger, one of the world’s most used chat apps. But that legacy has long since…

FOODWeLove: the Woodstock deli mixing good food with social savvy

As a willing slave to technology, I couldn’t bear go without my smartphone for more than ten minutes. It’s the de facto centre of…

Q&A: social media played an integral role during Madagascar’s Cyclone Enawo disaster

Cyclone Enawo might be a distant memory for some, but for those in Madagascar, the strife has only just begun. It was the most…

Q&A: Google’s Bunmi Banjo chats Africa’s digital skills growth

Google’s African operations have had a week to celebrate, following the news that they’ve hit their goal of training one million Africans. The training…

UberEATS’s David Kitley on expansion plans and more

UberEATS launched in Cape Town this week, offering a trendy food delivery service to take on the likes of OrderIn and Mr Delivery. What…

BlackBerry bets big on enterprise mobility in Africa

BlackBerry might have lost the smartphone market share battle in Africa and elsewhere to Samsung and other OEMs, but the company’s multibillion dollar enterprise solution…

On Nigeria’s digital integration: Q&A with Anakle COO

Nigeria’s digital industry is getting very interesting. More social media campaigns are popping up and during the last elections digital ideas took centre stage….

How IBM is building a smarter planet with the cloud

Most people have heard of Watson — IBM’s smart computer that famously beat the quiz show Jeopardy! back in 2011. Fewer know that Watson…

CcHub’s Bosun Tijani: ‘Nigeria can’t move forward if we don’t use technology smartly’ [Q&A]

The story of tech entrepreneurship in Nigeria is incomplete without mentioning Lagos-based Co-Creation Hub (CCHub) considering its status as the first extensively recognised incubation…

MMI’s Jaco Oosthuizen on innovation, what corporates can learn from startups [Q&A]

A little while back we told you about the Startupbootcamp Insurance Accelerator Programme, launched with the support of JSE-listed MMI Holdings. The accelerator programme,…

Google’s Michelle Atagana talks life after journalism, spreading the tech gospel

Long-time Memeburn readers across Africa are probably very familiar with the name Michelle Atagana. And if you didn’t read our former Managing Editor’s content…

3D printers, cardboard and a giant robot: Omar-Pierre Soubra on the magic of Maker Faire

Cape Town recently hosted its very first Maker Faire Cape Town. Calling those involved makers, the event saw some 4 000 attendants and over…

Y&R CEO David Sable chats advertising’s next big markets, why ‘Dumb Ways to Die’ secretly sucked

For a guy at the top of an industry worth billions upon billions of dollars, David Sable doesn’t seem all that concerned with the…

9 massive predictions for how tech will impact ‘the next billion’

Quartz held an impressive event this week with speakers from Uber, frog, and EVRYTHING to name but a few. Titled “The Next Billion”, the…

Opera VP Richard Monday tells Memeburn why its mobile browser is still so important for Africa

Before the advent of smartphones, and long before iOS got popular in Africa, Africans were using their mobile devices to browse the web. In…

SA’s first social media lawyer on sex tapes, penis transplants and Pistorius

She’s been described as the Dr. Eve of social media, ready with that much-needed reality check just before we send out a message into…

Why Trevor Noah is leaving the Daily Show

Blonde now streaming on Netflix: Here’s why it could get spicy reviews

MIC invests R10m in crowd-farming fintech Livestock Wealth

Digital identity startup iiDENTIFii raises record $15m

Need funding? How to make investors take you seriously

Samsung’s S22 ultra: Zoom in so close you can whisper to the referee

Vivo launches V25e, a vlogger’s dream

Vivo launches the V25 5G with colour changing back

Review: Land Rover Defender 90 D300X

Review: Mazda CX-5 DE Akera

EQC 400 4Matic is SA’s first battery-powered Mercedes