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Apple turns manufacturing process green with WWF China partnership

Apple is partnering with the World Wildlife Fund to help protect as much as 1 million acres of forests responsible for pulp, paper and…

Sony Mobile, 5FM relaunch Xperia Mashlab project

Sony Mobile and 5FM, one of the country’s top radio stations, are relaunching the Xperia Mashlab project, a mesh between South African music and…

Dropbox for iOS updates with file comments and more

A while ago Dropbox and Microsoft formed a partnership to bolster cross-platform integration, and now this relationships is beginning to bear fruit. In a…

UberASSIST: raise cash for kids while you ride

Uber South Africa has just announced that it is embarking, in partnership with Reach For A Dream, on its first national assist campaign to…

Meet Harley Quinn and the Suicide Squad

If you’re a fan of complex, multi-film cinematic universes, there’s never been a better time to be alive really. With Marvel currently king of…

Evernote introduces more affordable premium plans

Online workspace provider Evernote has rolled out a new pricing plan. The new plans are Basic, Evernote Plus and Evernote Premium. Basic is free,…

Alibaba’s Tmall, Taobao see US$3bn in sales in 24 hours

Tech in Asia recently suggested that China’s biggest e-commerce sales/discounts day could beat America’s Cyber Monday in value — and that’s precisely what happened…

Apple to dole out $21m to Swiss Federal Railways for clock icon

Apple has agreed to fork out US$21-million to the Swiss Federal Railways for the new clock design on the tablet versions of iOS6. The…

Microsoft set to unleash celebrity assault in Windows Phone 8 promotion

Looks like a fair chunk of Microsoft’s massive marketing drive for Windows Phone 8 is going toward celebrity endorsements. After the Redmond-based company’s CEO…

Editor Chris Anderson leaves Wired for drones

Wired magazine’s long time editor, Chris Anderson has resigned to run his 3D robotics company fulltime. The renowned editor has been with the publication…

Google brings data free mobile search Gmail, Google+ to the Philippines

While the smartphone revolution is well established in most mature mobile markets, there’s still a long way to go in some countries, particularly in…

MasterCard launches next gen touch screen bank card in Singapore

As part of a partnership with Singapore’s Standard Chartered Bank, MasterCard has launched its next generation interactive card, which features an embedded display and…

Time for more videos: Wikipedia launches new HTML5 video player

It’s been in the works for a while, but now crowd-sourced giant Wikipedia is entering the multimedia era with its new HTML5 video player……

Facebook unveils new look for friendship pages

Facebook has refreshed its friendship pages. If you’re unsure what the hell that is, click on one of your friends’ profiles and click on…

News anchor gets suspended for Linkin Park death tweet

Lance Witten, an anchor for the eNews Channel Africa (eNCA) has been suspended by the channel for a tweet in which he joked about…

JAM with Chrome: rock out with your friends, on your browser

We all that Google does fairly nifty things sometimes and they’re fun, for sure. But every now and then it pulls something mind-bogglingly awesome…

Samsung Galaxy SIII is officially the world’s best selling smartphone

Looks like it’s time to surrender your throne iPhone 4S users: the Samsung Galaxy SIII is officially the world’s best-selling smartphone, for now. According…

Baidu CEO tells staff to disrupt, innovate… and be like wolves

Be more wolf-like. That’s one of the rallying cries of Robin Li, CEO and founder of China’s top search engine, Baidu, in an internal email…

Google continues to slip in China search, map rankings

It may be a synonym for online search in the rest of the world but in China, Google’s a minor player. Its presence in…

Vodacom scuppers social play The Grid

Vodacom has announced kill off its social networking play The Grid by 1 December. The location-based social network, which in 2010 had around two…

US election: Check out Donald Trump’s Lolworthy Twitter rant

Known more for his big hair and his role in US reality TV show The Apprentice, businessman Donald Trump has come out against the…

Read Barack Obama’s victory email to his supporters

Okay okay, it’s not quite as cool as his victory tweet, but US president Barack Obama’s email to his supporters prior to his victory…

High End Devices Unlock Superior Mobile Experiences in South Africa

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Records Tumble In Best Year Yet For South Africa’s Hedge Fund Industry

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