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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…

Can a Tumblr acquisition make Yahoo! cool again?

Things are stirring in the house of Yahoo! According to multiple sources, the Silicon Valley veteran is in talks to buy popular social blogging…

Hatchet wielding hitchhiker, viral star Kai wanted for murder

Kai, the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker who shot to viral fame after saving a woman from her attacker, has been arrested on suspicion of murder. The…

Google aims for full customisation with Maps revamp

A map is a map is a map, right? Except maps change and evolve, based on our knowledge, all the time and Google is…

Protea Hotels teaches you hotel skills with its own tycoon app

Stimulating the money-making part of your brain, the South African Protea Hotels try to give you a taste of what it’s like being in…

BlackBerry stock falls after opening up BBM to iOS, Android

There were always going to be questions around BlackBerry’s decision to open up its BBM messaging platform and some of the loudest came from…

Google vs Spotify: the final smackdown

Google reportedly wants to take on Spotify. The news, which was first reported on The Verge, says that the internet giant is planning on…

Outlook.com now lets you chat with your Google friends

This is interesting. Outlook.com users will now be able to chat with their Google friends from within the webmail service. Since launching its revamped…

Google set to go sensor crazy at I/O, will track air quality, noise levels

Anyone attending this year’s Google I/O developers’ conference is set to be part of a massive experiment from the internet giant’s Cloud Platform Developer…

Forget Trojan horses, social media is your biggest security threat

Scared about your online identity being compromised through Facebook or Google’s clingy online presences? You’d probably be less happy about those you don’t know…

Google appears to have shut down SMS search, without telling anyone

There goes all the information at your fingertips, says every feature phone owner who uses Google’s SMS search. According to reports, the search giant…

Kickstarter: Zach Braff, Veronica Mars have brought in $400k to other projects

Kickstarter’s founders Charles Adler, Perry Chen and Yancey Strickler have taken to the company’s blog to address controversy surrounding big-name projects on the platform…

Memeburn finalist in Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards 2013

Memeburn has officially been announced as a finalist in the Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards 2013 and is pitted against the BBC and CNBC…

Google, Time launch Timelapse showing planetary changes over 25 years

Google, Time Magazine, NASA and the US Geological Survey (USGS) have teamed up to create a portal showing how much the planet has changed…

Social traffic app Waze rumored to be Facebook’s next big buy

Facebook is rumored to be lining up another billion dollar buy with social traffic app Waze the target this time around. According to a…

LinkedIn news section gets magazine-style revamp

LinkedIn has made another step toward being a serious player in the online media space with the revamping of its news section. The refreshed…

Microsoft uses TV whitespaces to take broadband to Tanzanian universities

TV whitespaces are playing an increasingly important role when it comes to providing broadband to emerging market countries. The latest project to use the…

OpenAI’s new offline AI model could reshape Africa’s app market in 2026

AI side hustles are becoming South Africa’s newest obsession

Monitors Are the New Power Move in Africa’s Gaming Boom

Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

Simbi Wabote’s 10-Year Roadmap: How Nigeria Achieved 54% Local Content Growth

Records Tumble In Best Year Yet For South Africa’s Hedge Fund Industry

The Gaming Gear South Africans Are Actually Buying This December

Acer brings RTX 50 Series gaming laptops to South Africa with next gen AI performance

OPPO Brings Its Most Affordable Smartphone to South Africa with the New A6x

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TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

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