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Apple will donate some of its sales this shopping season to fight Aids

Your next iPod or iTunes app could help fight HIV/AIDS in Africa. The December holiday season is the most profitable time of the year….

SpaceX’s future includes rockets with X wings, autonomous landing ports

Just when you thought SpaceX couldn’t get more interesting, Elon Musk goes and shows off the latest version of the company’s Falcon 9R rocket,…

Mxit offers CodeX sponsorship to help breed SA’s young coder generation

Mxit, the South African messaging app, is offering three sponsorships for the next intake of CodeX — the local programming apprenticeship school. Through this…

MTN-backed African artists set to tackle Ebola with ‘We Are the World’ cover

A number of African artists are set to perform and release a cover of “We are the World” in support of cellular giant MTN’s…

Yahoo will become the default search engine for Firefox in the US

Firefox just dumped Google for Yahoo. After celebrating its 10 year anniversary earlier this month, Mozilla flaunted new initiatives to further its vision of…

‘Serial’ breaks iTunes record for fastest podcast to reach 5 million downloads and streams

The podcast Serial, an offshoot from US radio show This American Life, has reached 5 million downloads on iTunes. Serial began as an experiment…

Google now lets you search with handwriting

This is very cool. Google search now recognises search queries via handwriting. The new service, officially announced today, allows you to hand write your…

Facebook rolls out Recommendations Bar, claims tripled click-through rates

Looks like Facebook’s taken a leaf out of Twitter’s “search and discovery’s where it’s at” book. The world’s largest social network today announced that…

Twitter is down…again [update]

Here we again. Twitter is down, having been up a whole month after its last outage. This time though, things appear to have gone…

Is it really game over for Zynga?

Wow. This is kind of harsh. Social game maker Zynga’s share price dropped 40% after reporting a dismal second quarter. The company, which had…

Athlete banned from the Olympics after racist tweet

A triple jump athlete from Greece will no longer be taking part in the Olympics after she expressed racist views on her personal Twitter…

Smartphones set to change mobile banking for good

The way we do banking on our mobile phones is changing rapidly, very rapidly. While most cellphone banking in emerging markets like South Africa…

Shanghai to introduce free city-wide Wi-Fi

The eternal hunt for free Wi-Fi is about to get a lot easier for residents of Chinese mega-city Shanghai. According to the Oriental Daily,…

Foursquare finally serious about making money

In what seems a natural succession its recent series of updates, location-based social network Foursquare has launched a revenue-generating product. Following the same route…

Apple rides high on back of iPad, iPhone sales

Apple has just released its latest financial results and it looks like the Cupertino giant is healthier than ever. Well it was hardly going…

YouTube set to tackle trolls head on

This is interesting. YouTube is trying to take on the trolls by taking on their biggest weapon: anonymity. The world’s most popular video-sharing site…

The Zuck’s first patent finally comes through

Poor Mark Zuckerberg. Seems the Facebook founder’s had to wait six years for his first patent to be filed. According to ReadWriteWeb, the filing…

Facebook rolls out new features, beefing up Pages offering

Facebook seems seriously determined to boost its Pages offering. The social network today announced a raft of new features for the tool. Having already…

Indian mobile operator reckons Google, Facebook should share profits

The issue of Net neutrality has reared its ugly head, this time in India. Mobile operator Bharti Airtel reckons that web-based companies should pay…

Amazon offers to pay for employees’ studies — even if they leave after

Wow. This is Big. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos today took over the company’s front page to announce that it would be paying…

Twitter to curate Olympic Games

Worried you’ll miss out on all those magical Olympic moments while you’re at work? Relax, Twitter claims it’s got your back. The social network…

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