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Tech4Africa Cape Town to explore ‘rise of the underdog’

Tech4Africa has announced the speaker line-up for its Cape Town event, which takes place on 6 August. Among the speakers are local entrepreneur Nic…

Nokia sells its Here mapping business to Audi, BMW, and Mercedes for $3 billion

Nokia, after much speculation and bidding, has announced that it has agreed to sell its HERE digital mapping and location service business to an…

Random House launches eBook store focussed on SA titles

The largest South African trade publisher, Penguin Random House South Africa (PRHSA), has announced the launch of its eBook store. Listing only South African…

Project Isizwe brings its free Wi-Fi offering to Gugulethu, Khayelitsha taxi ranks

Project Isizwe has announced that it is rolling out its free Wi-Fi offering at taxi ranks in Gugulethu and Khayalitsha. The initiative, run in…

Open Access Control: Vinny Lingham among speakers at TEDXCapeTown

TEDXCapeTown 2015 has confirmed it lineup, as well as its theme. The event, now in its fifth year, aims to tackle the delicate paradox…

Google Now lets you dictate WhatsApp, WeChat messages on the go

Google has introduced an new feature to Google Now that makes it easier to send an instant message without actually having to type them…

Powertime now lets you manage all your bills in one place

Powertime, the prepaid electricity payments service, has announced the launch of a service which it says will allow users to pay any bill online….

Chinese government wants 5 more Lenovos by 2015

There’s no doubting that Lenovo is one of the Chinese tech scene’s greatest success stories. The electronics manufacturer is growing fast is set to…

Intel set to stop producing desktop motherboards in three years

The word is still out on the future of PC desktops, as Memeburn has reported on extensively. The signs are ominous that mobile computing…

Google Q4 results completely crush analyst expectations

Boom. Looks like anyone who thought that Google was losing its way financially just got a slap to the brain. The internet giant announced…

Twitter redesigns embedded tweets, claims they’re ‘faster, more engaging’

When Twitter announced that it would be introducing the ability to embed tweets in late in 2011, it made a whole load of people’s…

Bieber takes Twitter crown from Gaga

Beliebers of the world rejoice, your idol is now the most followed account on Twitter. Yup, that’s right the Canadian pop sensation has overtaken…

Eric Schmidt’s daughter: North Koreans are ‘hostages in their own country’

Eric Schmidt recently took a delegation to North Korea where he encouraged the country’s government to relax its grip over internet control. “As the…

Former Microsoft exec: Ballmer culls his corporate rivals

Anyone who’s watched Steve Ballmer’s “Crazy Eddie” probably views the Microsoft CEO as slightly unhinged but ultimately harmless. If an ex Microsoft exec is…

Microsoft hires designer who boldly reimagined its branding

Hey, remember that 21-year-old design student who completely re-imagined Microsoft’s branding in just three days? Well the Redmond-based tech giant has hired him after…

FNB ads cause brouhaha, are quietly removed

First National Bank (FNB) has pulled a series of video-based adverts from YouTube after South Africa’s ruling party and its youth division claimed it…

BlackBerry’s App World gets a rebrand — music and video are on the way

With just more than a week to go before the official launch of BlackBerry 10, RIM has officially flicked the switch and implemented the…

FaceWash: your ticket to a squeaky clean Facebook profile

If you’re applying for an incredibly serious high-profile corporate job, then it really doesn’t do to have a Facebook profile filled with profanities, especially…

Wikileaks: Aaron Swartz was ally, possible source

This is interesting. Wikileaks is claiming that recently deceased Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz was an ally and may have acted as a source for…

Google officially the best company on Earth to work for, again

We already know that Google is prone to building the odd goofy Easter egg into its products, and that it has really cool data…

Sina Weibo launches in-stream advertising in bid to boost revenue

China’s most prominent microblogging (or weibo) service Sina Weibo has followed the path worn by Twitter, officially launching in-stream advertising. The social giant has…

Single? Lonely? Here’s how to get a fake Facebook girlfriend

This is sad, desperately sad. A Brazilian company is helping all the lonely hearts out there on Facebook create perfect, but completely fake, girlfriends….

Instagram releases user figures, now has 90m monthly active users

Popular photo sharing platform Instagram has reported its monthly user stats for the first time. According to the company’s site it currently has 90-million…

SA’s AI Future Depends on One Thing: Skills

Epson Survey Reveals Surge in Demand for Projectors as Home Cinema Trend Takes Off

Opera Mini Brings Free AI to South Africa, Tackling Data Costs and Boosting Digital Inclusion

Outcomes-Based Funding Delivers Real Jobs for SA Youth – A New Model for SME-Led Growth

Umvuzo Health Turns 21 with a Tech-Driven Medtech Model That’s Redefining Corporate Healthcare

Kazang Brings Card Payments to Spaza Shops, Driving Fintech-Fuelled Financial Inclusion

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

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Slate Truck is an outrageously sensible pickup

Red Bull wings for Lucid – not Tesla

Gravity is a true driver’s EV SUV