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BBC.com comes onboard as IAB Digital Summit sponsor

BBC.com, the global online presence of the British state broadcaster has come onboard as the headline sponsor for the 2015 IAB DigitalSummit, in conjunction…

Google launches Classroom mobile apps for Android and iOS

Google’s Classroom education initiative launched its own set of mobile apps yesterday. The initiative has been around for six months but only on the…

Bitcoin price is lowest in two years, here are 4 possible reasons why

Bitcoin’s price continues to drop as it cruises past the US$200 mark — US$180 less than one month ago and the lowest we’ve seen…

Apple awarded patent for a wireless action camera, GoPro shares tumble

Apple has been awarded a patent by the USPTO based on IP it acquired from the now defunct Eastman Kodak in a deal from…

New Avengers: Age Of Ultron trailer will tear you apart from the inside

Marvel and Walt Disney have released the third Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer and it is brilliant. The first one was leaked on 22…

Nedbank quietly launches Android app

Nedbank has quietly made its first mobile app public, just over a month after announcing that it was making the entire app suite available…

No more via stamp for Twitter web client

If you use a third-party client like Tweetbot or Twitterfic then your tweets are about to start looking a little different. Well on the…

IBM doles out US$1.3bn for HR software company Kenexa

Looks like Big Blue is going into Human Resources. This morning IBM announced that it was ready to pay US$1.3-billion for HR software company…

Apple stock surges to new record high after trial victory

Boom. If you’ve got Apple stock then its court victory against Samsung should have had you fist pumping at your desk. This morning, the…

Spotify clone Simfy now live in South Africa

German-based Spotify clone Simfy is now live for users in South Africa. That means that anyone in the country can now try out the…

App.net gets first mobile client in form of Hooha

Subscription-based social network App.net has its first third-party mobile client in the shape of Hooha, available now on the Google Play Store. According to…

Samsung claims innovation high ground in wake of Apple trial result

While Apple’s lawyers and top brass are likely still to wake up from their victory hangovers, Samsung’s still standing pretty much where it was…

Google: Samsapple has nothing to do with Android

Looks like Google is doing its outright damnedest to distance itself from the recently ended Samsapple trial. The internet giant claims that “most” of…

SA domain names about to get pricier with tougher rules

If you own a website, your domain name is vital. Without it, you’re just a series of dots and numbers. And if you’re a…

Samsapple: jury finds in favour of Apple

The nine-strong jury in the Apple/Samsung patent war delivered a decisive victory to Apple when it found in its favour after days of deliberation….

Lance Armstrong quits fighting USADA, sends shockwaves around the web

Seven time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will be stripped of all his titles and banned from cycling for life. This in the…

Check out Tim Cook’s Samsapple victory memo

So Apple’s taken victory in the massive patent trial between it and Samsung. And if you thought it was going to celebrate the victory…

Naspers, Tiger Global throw $150m into Flipkart

Boom, money time. Naspers and Tiger Global have invested US$150-million in Indian ecommerce giant Flipkart in its latest round of funding. While Naspers is…

Chinese video giants Youku, Tudou complete $1bn merger

This is big. Chinese online video monoliths Youku and Tudou have announced the completion of their billion dollar merger, with the latter set to…

Extra vanity URLs roll out on Google+

If you’re a brand or a verified individual, Google+ just got a little more appealing. A new batch of custom URLs has just gone…

Kill me now! ‘Lolz’, ‘Ridic’ & ‘Mwhahaha’ now in the Oxford Dictionaries Online

It’s official, we are all going to hell and lexicographers are leading the way. The geniuses at Oxford Dictionary decided a while ago that…

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