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Instagram and Facebook launch new activity monitoring tools

Instagram and Facebook have released new activity tools that will help you understand and control the amount of time you spend using their apps….

#Unemployment trends in South Africa as jobless rate rises

South Africa’s unemployment rate has increased by 0.5% to 27.2% between April and June 2018, according to Stats SA’s latest report. More than 100…

Cape Town’s dam storage levels end July at 56.8% full

July may not have seen as much rain as June, but Cape Town’s dam levels finish the month 8.5% higher than last. This comes…

Cape Town’s hot, dry July means 6B water restrictions will continue

Another hot, dry and precipitation-scarce week hasn’t had much of an impact on Cape Town’s dam levels, this according to the City’s latest report….

Stats SA: South Africa’s now home to 57.73m people

South Africa’s population has grown by less than a million in 2018, this according to Statistics South Africa’s mid year population report. Published today,…

Donald Trump’s latest Iran tweet gains 50k retweets in five hours

US President Donald Trump needed little over five hours to amass over 137 000 likes and more than 50 000 retweets on his latest…

How to watch Barack Obama’s Nelson Mandela Lecture live

Not everyone can make it to Johannesburg’s Wanderers cricket stadium to watch former US President Barack Obama deliver the 16th annual Mandela lecture, and…

Prominent tech ed Duncan McLeod caught up in racist social media row, charges laid [Update]

Crimen injuria charges laid against tech journalist over social media racism saga involving Chris Hart, Penny Sparrow McLeod had defended Hart’s tweets on the…

Estate agent calls black people ‘monkeys’ in racist Facebook post

Penny Sparrow, a white estate agent, has raised the ire of South African social media with a Facebook post comparing black people to monkeys….

Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors to set up office in South Africa

Major US automotive and energy storage company Tesla Motors plans to set up shop in South Africa, the birthplace of its CEO Elon Musk….

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’: what the world thinks so far

Geeks around the world have been anticipating this day with a mix of fear and trepidation ever since Disney announced its acquisition of Lucas…

ShowMax introduces download functionality for offline viewing

This is interesting. Naspers-owned video streaming service ShowMax has updated its Android app to include downloads for offline viewing. It’s a potentially important move,…

IAB UK CEO, Vinny Lingham to headline IAB SA Digital Summit

IAB SA has announced South African-born Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Vinny Lingham and Guy Phillipson, the CEO of IAB UK, as the headline…

Alibaba buys Hong Kong’s SCMP, may be a blow to editorial independence

Chinese internet giant Alibaba has acquired SCMP, the Hong Kong-based media house behind 103-year-old newspaper the South China Morning Post. While Alibaba has pledged…

#ZumaMustFall: South Africans voice concern, frustration after Nene axing

Twitter is filled with tweets voicing people’s concern and frustration over South Africa’s future. This comes after the surprise announcement by President Jacob Zuma…

Smart cities will use 1.6b connected things by 2016

According to Gartner, smart cities will use 1.6 billion connected things by the year 2016. This is an increase of 39% from 2015. By…

HERE leaves Nokia, plans to build maps for self-driving cars

The sale of Nokia’s mapping business unit, HERE, was no small issue. It was quite the funfair. Uber was in the running for it,…

SA gets (another) new VoD service, but this one’s strictly local

The increasingly crowded South African Video on Demand (VoD) space just got another entrant. But unlike services such as Naspers’ ShowMax, or Times Media’s…

Google Play Music launches in SA at R50 a month

Google Play Music, the technology giant’s music streaming service, is officially live in South Africa. Set to cost users R49.99 a month, the service…

ShowMax now lets eBucks users subscribe using vouchers

Naspers-owned ShowMax on Sunday announced a deal with FNB, which will allow eBucks users to subscribe to the video-streaming service using prepaid vouchers. According…

Spotify streamed over 28.5 million songs in 2015

Spotify recently announced its annual numbers and statistics on its dedicated 2015 page, and it makes for impressive reading. Among the numbers are the…

IAB: Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill ‘places excessive limitations on online freedoms’

IAB SA, the non-profit association which looks after the interests of the South African digital advertising and publishing space, has come out in opposition…

Search.com launches AI chat that pays users and publishers

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

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Why the ‘Ego Tax’ is Costing Your Business

South African Women Entrepreneurs Get It Right

Fintura Heads to Silicon Valley After Winning SA Startup World Cup

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Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

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