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Instagrammer Skye Grove suspended from Cape Town Partnership pending investigation

Cape Town Partnership CEO Bulelwa Makalima-Ngewana on Thursday announced that the organisation’s Communications Manager Skye Grove was officially “suspended”, pending an inquiry by an…

Majority of Facebook users in Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria connect to small businesses

The majority of Facebook users in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria use the platform to connect with small businesses. This is according to new…

Orange to launch South African VoD service next year

Orange Horizons, a subsidiary of French telecom giant Orange, is gearing up to launch its own internet service provider (ISP) service in South Africa,…

Tech4Africa launches Random Hack of Kindness, focusses on workplace skills and utility value

Tech4Africa, one of the continent’s largest tech conferences, has announced the addition of a hackathon. The hackathon, which is set to take place two…

Meet Homo Naledi: the ancestor you never knew you had

The discovery of a new species of human relative was announced today. Our distant ancestor is called Homo naledi (meaning “star” in Sesotho), who’s…

Apple launches iPhone 6S, 6S Plus with Apple A9, 12MP camera

Apple has been rather busy today in San Francisco, launching devices and new software packages left, right and centre. But we’ve seen some rather…

Amazon: iOS users should ignore the latest Kindle app update

If you’ve got the Kindle app on your iDevice, and a fairly sizable library, then you should probably avoid downloading the latest update. The…

Tech heavyweights get behind teaching kids to code

There’s a greater need for people who can code than will be ever be fulfilled. That’s the message behind a new organisation that has…

India: Apple’s next big market?

Apple is trying to crack the Indian market for the iPhone in a bid to challenge Samsung’s dominance in the emerging market giant. It…

App.net opens up free invite-only tier, allows following of up to 40 people

Crowd-funded social play and versatile web platform App.net has opened up a free version of its service. Access to the free service requires an…

Tencent to open US office to push WeChat

Tencent, maker of the popular WeChat messaging app, is to open an office in America this year as the Chinese company focuses on taking…

Apple to compensate parents whose kids go app crazy

If your kids have been racking up massive bills on their iDevices then there may be some relief in sight. The company says it…

As Nook sales slip, Barnes and Noble are expected to report more losses

Things aren’t going too well with Barnes & Noble’s digital aspirations. The book retail giant is expected to announce that revenue from its Nook…

Kickstarter-funded project wins at the Oscars

Well this is pretty cool. A Kickstarter-funded documentary made history by winning Best Documentary Short at the Academy Awards on Sunday. As a validation…

Instagram might not be coming, natively, to BlackBerry 10 after all

So if you’ve got a BlackBerry 10, or are waiting for one to arrive, chances are you were sold on the promise that all…

Zendesk got hacked: Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr feel it

Customer support service Zendesk says it has been a victim of a hack and three of its social clients have been affected: Twitter, Pinterest…

Oscar Pistorius outstrips Lance Armstrong, Tiger on Google search

Searches for Oscar Pistorius, who stands accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in the early hours of 14 February, have outstripped those for…

Yahoo! launches new homepage, calls it more intuitive

We’ve been waiting for Marissa Mayer to really make her impact felt at Yahoo! since taking over CEO. The new homepage does that and…

Ballmer: Surface won’t own PC sales but it is a ‘real business’

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted that his company’s range of Surface tablets isn’t likely to dominate the personal computing market. He does however…

Is one site to blame for all the recent hacks on big tech companies?

Everyone’s getting hacked these days: Apple, Twitter and Facebook have all been breached in recent days. And while we knew that the same group…

Sina says WeChat will dig into Weibo usage, but reckons it has critical mass

Sina has admitted that competition from Tencent’s increasingly popular WeChat app is cutting into the time people spend on its Sina Weibo microblogging platform….

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