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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…

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield pays tribute to Dr. King on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

On the third Monday of January each year, Americans observe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The day is observed around Dr King’s birthday, which…

WhatsApp ditches annual subscription, promises to stay ad free

WhatsApp on Monday announced plans to drop its annual subscription fees as it looks for alternative revenue models. In an official blog post, the…

South African learners lobby for data-free Wikipedia access

A group of grade 11 learners at Sinenjongo High School in Cape Town, South Africa has written four letters to major telecom operators Vodacom,…

NSA to launch inquiry into whether whistleblower Snowden had China ties

The US’ National Security Agency (NSA) is set to investigate whether Edward Snowden, the man who unveiled its complex spying programme, had ties to…

Twitter launches #FollowMe, sums you up in a movie highlight reel

Twitter announced its second partnership with Portland startup Vizify today. It’s called #FollowMe and it collects standout messages, images and video clips from your…

Twitter opens up its analytics to the public… sorta

This is interesting. It seems that Twitter has quietly opened up its analytics metrics so it can give users a better understanding of their…

WhatsApp hits new record, processes 27bn messages in 24 hours

WhatsApp today announced that it had processed 27-billion messages in 24 hours, a new record for the mobile messaging service. It’s also significantly up…

SA Reserve Bank says ‘financial refugee’ Shuttleworth could ruin the economy

The bid by internet billionaire Mark Shuttleworth to reclaim some R250-million (US$24.5-million) from the South African Reserve Bank and have its system of exchange…

StopWatching.Us: Mozilla’s anti-surveillance campaign

Privacy and surveillance have been hot topics on the web and all media over the past week, and chances are it’s going to carry…

Google, Facebook, Microsoft asks NSA to let them prove innocence on PRISM

When you’re implicated in a massive government scandal involving security breaches and privacy, you’re going to want to do whatever if takes to prove…

Google Drive, Docs now in Afrikaans, Amharic, Swahili, and Zulu

Google has expanded the number of the languages available on Drive, its cloud storage product. The internet giant announced today that you can now…

Google confirms Waze acquisition

Google has announced that it has acquired Waze, the Israeli-based crowd-sourced navigation app, as everyone expected it would today. “…we’re excited to announce we’ve…

SA, Aussie panel turns to crowdfunding for ComiCon trip

This is pretty interesting. The publishers of Velocity, a platform designed to provide South African and Australian comic book artists and writers a place…

Mark Shuttleworth takes SA gov’t to court over exchange controls

Ubuntu founder and South African-born tech billionaire Mark Shuttleworth is set to take the South African government to court in a bid to have…

Africa Gathering: hands on with Africa’s disruptive thinkers

Africa’s meteoric rise in the tech space is showing not signs of stopping. That’s a good a thing. The continent is moving fast to…

Watchdog group says Wikimedia cares less about Chinese users

Chinese online watchdog group Greatfire has come out against the Wikimedia foundation, arguing that it holds Chinese users in less regard than others from…

Washington Post sat on NSA whistleblower info, went to gov’t with it

The Washington Post has revealed that it sat on the revelations of Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who sparked allegations that tech giants such as…

Google, Waze deal seems more likely by the day

Google is very close to inking a deal to acquire crowd-sourced navigation app Waze. Rumours have been flying about for the last couple of…

High End Devices Unlock Superior Mobile Experiences in South Africa

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