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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…

New BBC Horizons series covers how far tech has come in past 5 years

The latest series of BBC World News show Horizons has kicked off and it looks like it could be a goodie for tech lovers….

Skype voice translator finally starts rolling-out to Windows users

On the back of experiencing some down time last week, online communication service Skype now has real-time voice translation for all Windows PC and…

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…

Path joins the hashtag party

Path has apparently decided to jump on board the hashtag bandwagon, joining the likes of Twitter, Facebook (possibly), Instagram and Flickr. The latest update…

Facebook finally allows you to reply to comments

This is pretty cool. Facebook has finally rolled out a facility that allows you to reply to comments on your posts. Among other things,…

Reddit co-founder calls out ‘fellow geeks’, tells them to behave better

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has called out his “fellow geeks’, for the DDoS attacks, crude responses and death threats they sent to Adria Richards…

Yahoo! buys out summary app Summly

Yahoo! has bought out news summarizing app Summly for an undisclosed figure (although some have pegged it at just under US$30-million). You might recall…

Amazon to launch ‘Zombieland’ series based on film of same name

Amazon today announced that it had greenlit Zombieland, a comedy series based on the 2009 film of the same name. The series, which is…

AP court win shows why content clipping on the web is not fair use

The Associated Press (AP) and New York Times have won a court case involving a company that scraped content from the internet without paying…

Michael Dell could lose CEO post if rival buyout bid succeeds

Michael Dell has been on a mission to take the company he founded nearly 30 years ago private but, if a rival buyout bid…

Google Now is not coming to iOS… yet

Now for a little snippet I like to call “Eric said what?” Apparently just because Eric Schmidt says it is so doesn’t mean it…

Say hello to Google’s answer to Evernote: Keep

Imitation is the best form of flattery. Google has launched its own note-taking and archiving app, Google Keep, in direct competition with consumer favourite…

Chameleon botnet costing online advertisers millions

This is pretty scary. Online security experts have identified a botnet that is stealing millions of dollars a month. The botnet, which has been…

Eric Schmidt tells India to stop policing internet, focus on innovation

Google chairman Eric Schmidt has told India that it needs to stop censoring the web and instead make innovation a priority. In an editorial…

DStv and MWEB team up to offer movie downloads, free data

Paid digital satellite TV service DStv is teaming up with internet service provider MWEB to give its subscribers 6GB of ADSL data as well…

Microsoft will support WP8 until 2014, no sign of what happens after

Well. This is interesting. It looks like Windows Phone adherents (yes they do exist) are in for an anxious few months. Microsoft has announced…

Google ‘Keep’ makes brief appearance online, could compete with Evernote

Looks like Google could be about to re-enter note-taking space in a serious way. The internet giant looks to be readying a product called…

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

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