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Multiple users report mass Twitter outage [update]

Update: Twitter connectivity has been restored for us at least in South Africa, including Twitter.com and Tweetdeck. If you’re still experiencing issues, drop us…

YouTube finally launches offline video feature in South Africa

The world’s largest online video platform boasts over a billion users watching hundreds of millions of hours everyday. Countries with limited data connectivity however…

Google Photos update lets you free up space, downgrade photos

Out of Google’s annual event this year, Google Photos, bundled out of the underwhelming Google+ was an impressive innovation. Over the months since its…

10 of Africa’s most innovative apps of 2015 you should know about

Pan-African competition AppsAfrica has concluded earlier this week, announcing the continent’s ten most innovative mobile applications of 2015. With entries stretching from Nigeria to…

How Africa’s 1bn+ population will transform telecoms sector

Africa has earned itself many titles over the years and one of which is that it is the untapped market, with much potential. During…

Facebook, Airtel launch Free Basic services in 17 African countries

Facebook and telco provider Airtel on Tuesday announced a partnership that will see two companies launch Free Basics in 17 African countries. Free Basics,…

Activist group Anonymous vows to wipe ISIS out from the web

Activist hacker group Anonymous has declared war on terrorist organisation ISIS. This follows the recent attacks in Paris last Friday where a total of…

IBM chief tells staff the company has to think fast, move faster

IBM chief executive Virginia Rometty has rebuked her company’s employees after the tech giant posted weak financials last week. The company, she says has…

Yahoo! strikes exclusive deal to host Saturday Night Live content

Yahoo! has struck an exclusive deal with Broadway Media to feature Saturday Night Live content across its sites. In an official blog post, CEO…

Street View now live in 50 countries after adding Lesotho, Hungary

Google Street View is now live in 50 countries after taking the product live in Lesotho and Hungary today. That’s not bad going for…

Google Now could be on your home page soon

If you were a fan of iGoogle, this might pique your interest. Google looks set to bring Now, its contextual search assistant, to its…

Tech industry offers support for victims of Chinese quake

The recent 7.0 magnitude earthquake that left more than 200 people dead or missing, 11 800 injured and around 100 000 homeless in Sichuan,…

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….

OPPO A6 Pro 5G launches in South Africa with bigger battery and tougher build

OPPO South Africa Enters New Growth Phase with Jace Chen as CEO

Understanding Forex Market Liquidity in South Africa

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

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel