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Weekly Roundup #9: Ralph Baer, Dragons’ Den prodigy, Instagram, Volvo’s hybrid and Art of the brick

In our ninth edition of Weekly Roundup the Burn Media squad chats about all things startup prodigies, sexy hybrid vehicles and all so many…

19 snaps of incredible LEGO designs at the Art of the Brick Cape Town

It took 4 188 hours and more than 1 million colourful LEGO bricks to build the 78 pieces of LEGO art displayed at the…

Spotify curates “Top Tracks In Your Network” playlist from what the people you follow listen to

Imagine a Facebook News Feed but for music. This is what Spotify has done with the “Top Tracks In Your Network” feature, a personalised…

UNICEF and Millicom want to make the web safer for kids

UNICEF and emerging markets telecoms giant Millicom have signed an agreement aimed at making the web a safer place for children. The partnership will…

Microsoft adds Bitcoin as payment option for Xbox, Windows Phone stores

Microsoft users can now buy and download apps, games, movies, TV shows, and music at the Windows, Windows Phone, and Xbox Games, Video, and…

Cape Town social tourism campaign hits 13 million impressions on Twitter

This is very cool. The city of Cape Town is currently hosting four international travel bloggers and their itineraries are being guided by Twitter….

Microsoft’s new Outlook: a home-grown hammer in Hotmail’s coffin

Hotmail’s been the wheezing old collie of the email world for a few years now: we all acknowledge that it doesn’t really serve any…

Twitter behind UK journo’s suspension over Olympic complaint [update]

US broadcaster NBC’s coverage of the Olympic Games has been controversial enough to cause a social uproar all of its own. Then UK journalist…

Twitter’s Cashtags: a clone and a broken promise?

If you’re into the stock market and Twitter, then you’re probably stoked about the fact that you can now click on stock market ticker…

Is Facebook rolling out a ‘save it for later’ feature?

Ah Facebook. Two new updates in one day? You’re too kind. First the 955-million strong social network announces that it’s overhauling how images appear…

Goodbye old video chat, hello Google+ hangouts in Gmail

The Google graveyard is getting fuller by the day. The tech giant has been on a bit of a killing spree recently, axing what…

Baidu, Sina team up to share mobile and search content

Two of China’s most influential online powers, Baidu and Sina, are teaming up in a partnership that will see them swapping cloud-based and mobile…

Where are you on the map of the internet?

This is very cool. It’s a representation of the internet that maps each site according to its relative size, with the distances between them…

Opera hits 200m mobile users, reports massive African growth

It may not be a big in the world of desktop browsers but Opera’s mobile effort makes it a serious player in the browser…

Mountain Lion hits 3m downloads in 4 days

Wow. It looks like Apple owners are really keen on upgrading their operating systems. The Cupertino-based tech giant says that downloads of its latest…

Mobile network, broadcaster team up for neat location-based game

This is clever. African mobile giant Vodacom has teamed with broadcasting house Primedia for a social, GPS-based game called Gotcha. The game will see…

Sina Weibo went crazy for Olympic opening ceremony: 119m messages sent

Turns out users of Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo took to the first ever “social Olympics” with a gusto. During the opening ceremony alone,…

Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s epic Olympics ceremony tweet

Proving that the internet is truly a part of great world events, father of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee made an appearance…

Apple nabs Samsung, LG security provider for $356m

This is interesting. Apple has just forked out US$365-million for security company AuthenTec Inc. In an 8-k filing the company says that it entered…

Google’s Olympic doodle is kind of disappointing

Google’s done some pretty epic doodles in the past. The one it’s done for the 2012 Olympic Games is not one of them. We…

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