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Netflix seems to be clamping down on overseas VPN users

Using Netflix outside of its predetermined borders? Well, that might start to change very soon. If recent reports are anything to go by, the…

Mark Zuckerberg has started a book club and his first book choice is pretty much sold out

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg crowdsourced his New Year’s resolution on the social network and the post solicited plenty of suggestions. Someone suggested that he…

Xiaomi reportedly raises $1-billion in funding, company valued at $45-billion

Xiaomi, the world’s third-biggest smartphone maker, has reportedly raised US$1-billion, according to Wall Street Journal. A Xiaomi spokesperson declined to comment. Though the Xiaomi…

Google’s big push for 2015? Surveillance reform

It’s something that everyone who works in the tech space will be thinking about. What will Google be expending its energy on in 2015….

Sony Pictures cancels ‘The Interview’ release following hacker threats

Following threats by Guardians of Peace, the group that hacked Sony Pictures, the entertainment studio has now decided to cancel The Interview. The company…

Twitter and Foursquare are partnering to improve location in tweets

Twitter and Foursquare are planning to partner together in 2015 to power location in tweets. In fact, the geo-location feature could be introduced as…

Apple halts online sales in Russia over ruble fluctuations

Apple has halted online sales on all off its products in Russia due to fluctuations in that country’s currency. This is one of the…

Down with piracy: Google search to demote sites with copyrighted content

Some say that the best place to hide a dead body is on the second page of Google search results. Thanks to the new…

Google ready to lose $275m in Motorola deal

Ouch. If you’re a Google investor, avert your eyes. Turns out that Motorola buyout is going to cost the company US$275-million. In a regulatory…

Google to remake Motorola in its image, cut back on staff

Google’s acquisition of Motorola was one of the biggest tech stories of 2011. Now that the paperwork’s cleared though, we can begin to get…

While everyone was talking Twitter, Sina Weibo took gold in the social Olympics

Well now, this is interesting. It turns out the real social media platform of choice when it came to the Olympic Games was China’s…

New emails from Wikileaks suggest Google, Salesforce were offered ‘TrapWire’ spy tool

Time was, a story about governments and big corporations using scary spy technology would’ve been easy to write off as the rantings of a…

Google mobile search: now smarter and more interactive

Google just made searching on mobile even better. The search giant has announced a host of new features to make Googling on your cellphone…

News24 down, ‘technical difficulties’ blamed [Update]

Africa’s largest online news portal News 24 is down. Anyone trying to enter the site receives a standard browser message stating that the site…

WordPress claims ‘biggest update ever’ with new iOS version

Expect to see people blogging a lot more from their iDevices in the near future. WordPress today rolled out a new version of its…

Battle.net hack: passwords and emails stolen, financial info safe

Ahem. If you play World of Warcraft, Diablo, or Starcraft you might want to mosey over to Battle.net around now and change your password….

Samsung: the Galaxy SI could’ve been better… if it was more like the iPhone

A fair few skeletons have emerged from the latest trial between Samsung and Apple. One of the most rattling revelations to date shows that…

Could a sunflower be key to the Apple, Samsung patent trial?

It’s an incredibly simple, but evocative image. It’s a yellow sunflower with green leaves and it’s the icon for Apple’s Photos App. The image…

Facebook introduces mobile ads for developers

Things might have just got a little easier for mobile app developers on Facebook. The social network announced that it will now let them…

Procrastinate with today’s basketball-themed Olympic Google doodle

Another fantastic time-wasting Olympic-themed doodle? Aww Google, you shouldn’t have. After the search giant made up for all those static Olympic doodles by launching…

China’s Sohu: losing the microblog battle, but planning a comeback

If you know anything about the Chinese social media space it’s probably that Tencent and Sina rule the microblogging space. If things had turned…

Amazon’s social game studio has Zynga in its crosshairs

Things could be about to get a lot hairier for Zynga. The game studio is about to face competition from Amazon, after the web…

Baidu sacks employees who deleted forum posts for cash: 3 arrested

Three now former employees of Chinese search giant Baidu have been arrested for accepting bribes to delete posts from the company’s TieBa forum service….

Opera Mini Data Campaigns Reshape Mobile Access in South Africa

Affordable 5G Phones Could Accelerate Digital Inclusion

Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

Simbi Wabote’s 10-Year Roadmap: How Nigeria Achieved 54% Local Content Growth

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

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Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

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