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Negging, peacocking, and bedroom eyes: pick-up artists peddle product at rAge 2015

South African gaming and electronics expo rAge has made some curious decisions regarding its portrayal of a family-friendly environment. After redesigning their mascot and receiving…

Facebook to test Like-replacement Reaction emoji feature

Facebook has always been that one space where people can tune in and stroke each other’s egos. Whether that be photos from your trip…

FNB Business Innovation Awards 2016 open for entries

Entries for the FNB Business Innovation Awards for 2016 are now open. Supported by entrepreneur support organisation Endeavor South Africa and a second year…

Reddit officially lifts the curtain on publication site Upvoted

Reddit is officially as big as Brazil. In terms of population size at least the link-sharing platform now boasts a massive 202 million monthly…

Facebook adds doodle photo editing tool to mobile app

Apart from living in a world obsessed with emojis, we also live in a world where people like to doodle. And now we can…

Facebook, Eutelsat to provide satellite internet to Africa

Facebook has inked a deal with French satellite giant Eutelsat which will see the two partnering to provide internet services to under-served areas across…

Tech brands dominate the top 10 spots in Interbrand global brands list

Interbrand, the world’s leading brand consultancy firm, puts together an annual best global brands report, in which it details the 100 most valuable brands…

40m of WeChat’s 300m users live outside China

Yesterday at Boao Forum For Asia 2013, Tencent’s President Martin Lau revealed on stage that WeChat has over 40-million overseas users. That’s out of…

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos invests in Business Insider

This is interesting. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has invested in US-based business and technology news website Business Insider. Business Insider editor-in-chief Henry Blodgett today…

Twitter releases new Android app, updates mobile web and iOS versions

Twitter has released a new version of its Android app as well updates to its iOS and mobile web versions. In an official blog…

Baidu confirms it’s working on Eye, China’s answer to Google Glass

Google Glass, meet Baidu Eye. Yep, the Chinese internet giant has confirmed that it is working on a wearable device prototype that features speech…

Skype users now spend 2bn minutes connecting with each other every day

Two-billion minutes. It’s a long time. More than 3 800 years. It’s also apparently the amount of time Skype users spend connecting with each…

Anonymous says it hacked North Korea’s intranet (but it probably didn’t)

The worldwide hacker collective Anonymous has announced that it has hacked North Korean web servers and, among other things, the China-based North Korean propaganda…

It’s all in the cards as Twitter goes for mobile app deep-linking

Twitter has announced that a major revamp to its cards function, including much deeper app integration. Cards have been important to Twitter for a…

Google engineers can now filter robocalls just like Gmail filters spam

This is very interesting. A couple of Google engineers have figured out how to filter out robotic callers the same way as Gmail filters…

Game of Thrones rules the piracy roost

If you’ve been in a steel re-enforced bunker over the last few years and don’t understand why everyone around you’s been making “Winter is…

Twitter for business relaunches, comes with new look, extra content

Twitter has relaunched its Twitter for Business site, giving it a new look as well as extra content. One of the most obvious changes…

Forget about a Bitcoin bubble, analyst calls price surge ‘a perfect storm’

When prices start soaring in tech, it’s inevitable that you’ll start hearing the term “bubble” bandied about. It happened with dot-com in the late…

Investec pips Absa to the smartphone banking app post

This is interesting. We’ve just received a media invite to the launch of Investec’s smartphone banking app. The fact that the South African-founded banking…

eBay may have led $50m investment in India’s SnapDeal

Pocketing US$50-million is no joke, so hopefully this one is not inspired by April Fool’s Day. According to Indian tech blog NextBigWhat, eBay has…

Absa finally ready to launch banking app

Absa has announced that it’s finally ready to launch a smartphone banking app, sometime after its competitors. The bank, which is a subsidiary of…

Nokia asked to pay $383-million over tax evasion claims in India

Nokia’s budget Asha series may be winning over consumers by the droves in emerging markets, but now the manufacturer has got something other than…

Windows phone is outselling iPhone, but only in a few countries

On Wednesday, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of corporate communications Frank Shaw wrote a blog post detailing some of the Microsoft’s progress across a number…

WeThinkCode_ and South Cape TVET College Bring Software Engineering Training to Rural SA Youth

Flow launches the world’s first and only shoppable audience marketplace

MTN MoMo’s R10-a-Day Smartphone Offer Aims to Bridge South Africa’s Digital Divide

Fintura Heads to Silicon Valley After Winning SA Startup World Cup

Capitec and Mama Money Launch Fintech Partnership to Empower Migrant Workers Across Africa

Flow Unveils World’s First Shoppable Audience Marketplace – A Fintech-Led Revolution in Digital Targeting

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

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel