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Uber partners with Eat Out for on-demand gourmet burgers

The latest promo from Uber looks set to be especially popular among foodies. The on-demand private ride service on Tuesday announced that it’s teamed…

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…

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…

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…

Sony WF-1000XM6 Lands In South Africa With Smarter Noise Cancelling And Premium Sound

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HONOR’s customer first strategy is reshaping South Africa’s smartphone market

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