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Deloitte Digital gobbles up Fintech agency Jinja Interactive

Deloitte Digital has made another raid into the specialist agency space. On Monday, the full services consultancy announced its acquisition of Jinja Interactive —…

ISPA weighs in on OTT regulation, tells networks to innovate

It’s been a long time since South Africa’s seen a tech issue as contentious as the bid by the country’s mobile network operators to…

Publicis snaps up Popimedia in R350m+ deal

Publicis’ South African buying spree shows no signs of slowing down. On Wednesday, the French agency network announced that it had completed an outright…

Netflix releases fourth quarter earnings, lays out ambitious plans for 2016

Netflix has released its fourth quarter earnings for the year ending 2016. The company reported a massive revenue of US$1.82-billion and earnings per share…

PayU appoints ex-PayPal exec as CEO

Naspers-owned payment services provider PayU on Tuesday announced the appointment of ex-PayPal Europe VP Laurent Le Moal as CEO. According to a press release…

Al Jazeera’s AJ+ launches Apple TV app

Al Jazeera’s maverick online news and current events channel AJ+ has announced the launch of its Apple TV app, bringing its offering to TVs…

BlackBerry’s fruit falls despite healthy predictions

After launching its new BlackBerry 10 series to take on the dominant players in the smartphone market, investors are unimpressed, with the company’s shares…

Twitter wants to roll out a ‘DVR Mode’ for live events

If you’re the kind of person who loves watching live events and tweeting about them at the same time (a lot of people do),…

PayPal gets ready to commercialise space with ‘Galactic’ programme

Space is no longer the preserve of state-funded agencies, people like Richard Branson and Elon Musk are making sure of that. And in a…

Square launches ecommerce play ‘Square Market’ to take on eBay, Etsy

Square is best known for building the small, white plastic cube that can read credit cards when plugged into a smartphone or tablet, but…

Computer modeling solves ‘fairy circle’ mystery

This is pretty cool. For years circular barren patches of land, known as Fairy Circles and typically found in the grasslands of the western…

Barnes & Noble abandons Nook Tablet operation

And now some news that could see Amazon employees engaging in some serious fist pumping. US book giant Barnes & Noble is calling it…

Sony puts micro-ads on Wimbledon player that can only be seen in 4K

Welcome to the era of 4K advertising. Sony has placed incredibly small adverts on the fingernails and clothing of British tennis player Anne Keothavong…

Edward Snowden took Booz Allen job to get at NSA documents

Edward Snowden, the man who unveiled the US National Security Agency (NSA)’s complex spying programme PRISM, has revealed that he took his contracting job…

Strawberries and cream anyone? Wimbledon comes to YouTube

Tennis fans, this one’s for you. Wimbledon is coming to YouTube. The video-sharing network has announced that you’ll be able to catch key moments…

Pistorius investigators ask Apple for help

Murder accused paralympian Oscar Pistorius has forgotten the four digit code to his iPhone, forcing police to seek help from Apple reports the Mail…

Indian Naspers property Ibibo confirms RedBus acquisition

It’s official. Ibibo, the Indian joint venture between emerging markets media and investment giant Naspers and Chinese internet titan Tencent, has acquired online bus…

Instagram finally adds video, blows minds with image stabilisation feature

The rumours were true, Facebook announced today that it is adding video to Instagram. Its excuse for adding moving images? It’s not Vine envy,…

University apologises after Mandela obituary appears on website

The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), one of South Africa’s foremost institutions of higher learning, has apologized for an obituary to former president Nelson…

Yahoo!: hackers won’t exploit recycled user IDs

Yahoo! is attempting to put to rest fears that its decision to recycle unused user IDs will leave users exposed to hackers. The primary…

Facebook comments: now with picture embedding

Your Facebook flame wars are about to get a whole lot more visual. The social networking giant has announced that people will now be…

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