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Instagrammer Skye Grove dismissed from Cape Town Partnership job

Skye Grove, the prominent South African Instagrammer at the centre of an online plagiarism furore, has been dismissed from her position at Cape Town…

Dell confirms record EMC acquisition

Computing giant Dell has just announced what looks set to be the biggest acquisition in tech history. The Texas-based company on Monday confirmed that…

You can now buy flights direct from News24

You may no longer be able to spew racist vitriol from the comments section, but you can now buy flights from News24. The feature,…

GovTech conference to reward public service innovation

GovTechSA, the government technology conference put together by the State Information Technology Agency (SITA), has announced that entries are open for the ICT Public…

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…

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…

Facebook’s Early Adopter Club set to reignite mobile experimentation

This is interesting. Facebook has opened up a limited beta club, which will see some Android users given the ability test out features before…

Dropbox shows its ambitions with Mailbox acquisition

Cloud storage specialist Dropbox today bought out Orchestra, the company behind the much-hyped email app Mailbox. The acquisition is widely thought to be a…

Samsung to roll out mobile health centres across Africa

Samsung recently launched its solar powered health centre model in Cape Town, marking the start of what it says will be a large-scale medical…

Samsung to give SA users free Wi-Fi for a year

If you had any doubts as to Samsung’s desire to stay top of the smartphone pile, check this out. The South Korean electronics giant…

More wood gets cleared as Google axes Reader, Cloud Connect

Google today announced as second wave of spring-cleaning that will see it consign a number of products to the graveyard including Reader, Google Voice…

Netflix goes social, launches Facebook partnership

Online video content platform Netflix has introduced a social element to its site. The company announced today that users can now see what their…

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