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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…

Sony to buy Toshiba’s image sensor division

Sony is close to purchasing Toshiba’s image sensor division, according to a report by Reuters. The deal is currently in private discussion with the…

Twitter to roll out polls to everyone

Twitter on Wednesday announced that it would be rolling out the ability to create polls to all its users. The new feature allows people…

Facebook announces TechPrep, an initiative to address diversity in tech

Facebook has announced an initiative called TechPrep, an online computer science and programming resource hub. TechPrep is aimed at underrepresented people and their parents…

Here’s how searches around SA’s student protests have spiked

Over the past few days, student protests rocking South African university campuses have dominated headlines. The protests, which kicked off at the University of…

Art meets VR in new Joburg exhibition

A new exhibition is set to give South Africans a taste of how virtual reality could turn the perception of art upside down. Called…

Facebook launches Instant Articles to everyone on iPhone, coming to Android later in the year

Earlier this year Facebook announced Instant Articles, it’s publishing play, but things have been fairly quiet since. On Tuesday however the company has announced…

The Kissinger Cables: Wikileaks makes largest release yet

Wikileaks has made over 1.7-million diplomatic cables available to the public, the largest ever release of formerly confidential information to come from the whistle-blowing…

Abuse, rape claims roll in against TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington appears to be in increasingly hot water. After Gawker unearthed allegations that the blogger and businessman beat his girlfriend and…

Google in possible talks to buy WhatsApp

Google may be in talks with WhatsApp to purchase the mobile chat platform for up to US$1-billion. That’s according to rumours reported by Digital…

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…

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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