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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…

Tencent coughs up $27m for 49% stake in Singapore game company

It’s no secret that Chinese social media superpower Tencent sees gaming as a big part of its future. So it shouldn’t be all that…

Reuters blog hacked, Syrian cyber war suspected cause

Ouch. You do not want to be the person in charge of Reuters’ online security right now. The renowned news agency’s blogging platform has…

Pinterest goes mobile with iPad, Android apps

It was one of the fastest social networks in history to hit 10-million users, it drives more referral traffic than Twitter, Google, and Bing…

Sina Weibo set to launch social credit card

Here’s an interesting development from beyond the Great Firewall. Chinese social network Sina Weibo is teaming up with China Merchants Bank on a social…

German Spotify clone Simfy to expand into South Africa

Music streaming service Simfy is expanding its international presence, with a South African version of the offering set to launch later this month. The…

Outlook.com hits 10M users… like a boss

Well now, it seems Microsoft may actually have a hit on its hands with its new online email service Outlook.com. Just two weeks after…

VEVO embarks on Brazilian adventure

Joint venture music video website VEVO is set to have a go at cracking the Brazilian market with a standalone music video platform and…

Crowdfunded social network App.net raises $800k

It may not be the most successful crowdfunding project in history, but it is causing a serious stir. Subscription-based Twitter alternative App.net has raised…

Tencent looks to grow in other emerging markets as China gets saturated

It’s not exactly a state secret that Tencent has dominated the Chinese social media scene over the past few years. Now though, that market…

HuffPost Live: HuffPo launches streaming video network

The Huffington Post is bent on world domination I am sure. Earlier this year, founder and Editor-in-Chief, Arianna Huffington began to conquer the world…

Google+ to let you get your vanity URL on in the near future

Oh look, a new feature on Google+ that its users will actually appreciate. Google today announced that it will start rolling out vanity URLs…

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…

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