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Africa-built digital player goes live on BBC World Service

The BBC World service has announced the launch of a new digital player designed and built by digital innovators from Africa. Called BBC Minute…

Google to launch hundreds of internet-enabled balloons in 2016

Google’s Project Loon never seizes to impress. Though the initiative started testing about two years ago, the US internet giant’s moonshot of sending internet-beaming…

Microsoft to merge calendar app Sunrise with Outlook

Microsoft has finally revealed its plans for Sunrise, the calendar app it acquired in February this year for US$100 million. Microsoft is going to…

Suzelle DIY to rock next Online Tuesday SA event

The creative talent behind one of South Africa’s biggest internet personalities, Suzelle DIY, will be among the digital professionals sharing their insight into what…

Apple Q4 2015 earnings reveal 48.04m iPhones sold in the quarter

Apple has announced its numbers for the quarter that ended on 26 September 2015 and the Cupertino-based tech giant is doing exceptionally well. The…

Uber partners with Eat Out for on-demand gourmet burgers

The latest promo from Uber looks set to be especially popular among foodies. The on-demand private ride service on Tuesday announced that it’s teamed…

Facebook revamps notification tab, makes it more Google Now card-ish

Facebook has announced that starting today, Android and iOS users in the US will see an updated Notifications tab. The new notification tab has…

Life after Andrew Mason: Groupon’s stock up 40%

Things haven’t been easy for Groupon since it went public in 2011. The company tanked after its most recent quarterly earnings report, losing nearly…

India’s Vserv.mobi teams up with Yahoo! to target South East Asia

Indian mobile ad network Vserv.mobi has announced a strategic partnership with Yahoo! that will see the two companies attempting to conquer South East Asia….

Facebook Home has 500k+ installations a week after launch

A week after its release onto the Google Play Store, Facebook Home has been downloaded more than 500 000 times. That’s not the best…

Reddit faces outages in midst of DDoS attack

Reddit is experiencing intermittent outages apparently due to a malicious DDoS attack. People trying to access the site, which labels itself “the front page…

Lenovo looks set to buy IBM’s x86 server business

Computing giant IBM is apparently set to sell part of the server side of its business to Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo. According to the…

Lumia sales solid but Nokia still misses with Q1 results

Nokia today reported its Q1 results for 2013 and while things look good for its Lumia range of smartphones, the company still has some…

LinkedIn goes native with its smartphone apps

This is interesting. LinkedIn has completely revamped it smartphone apps, following Facebook’s lead in abandoning HTML 5 for native efforts. Officially the professional social…

Footage emerges of the Texas fertiliser plant explosion

A fertiliser plant near the Texas city of Waco has exploded. While its unclear how many people have died at this stage, reports suggest…

LinkedIn set to establish SA presence with Graylink partnership

Professional social networking giant LinkedIn is getting ready to launch a South African presence through partnering up with recruitment software specialist Graylink. Graylink provides…

Publishing startup Matter is now part of Medium

In a blog post published today, publishing startup Matter announced that it has now become part of content creation platform Medium. Both companies rely…

‘iSteve’ is the 80-minute Steve Jobs comedy we’ve waited for

Funny or Die, comedian and actor Will Ferral’s comedy website, today launched iSteve, the free 80-minute long “autobiographical” spoof of the late Steve Jobs….

Anonymous ‘brandjacks’ Westboro Baptist Church, builds parody FB page

A Facebook page purporting to be that of the Westboro Baptist Church today appeared to have been taken over by hacker movement Anonymous. The…

Microsoft Surface set to land in South Africa in late 2013

South Africans brace yourselves. It seems Microsoft is finally taking the Surface to Africa. That’s according to a tweet from the company’s South African…

Facebook hires fired Apple Maps exec

This is interesting. Facebook has hired Richard Williamson, the man who led the development of Apple Maps, widely criticized for its inaccuracies and bizarre…

Facebook Home goes global as Chat Heads arrive on iOS

If you’ve been longing for Facebook Home but live outside the US, you can rest your FOMO aside. The app is now available to…

WhatsApp is now bigger than Twitter

There have been tons of mobile instant messaging services over the years, but few have had the kind impact WhatsApp’s managed to gain since…

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