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Tim Cook calls Apple Pay a success with 1 million sign-ups in first 3 days

Just three days after Apple’s new and exciting payment technology Apple Pay launched last week, over 1 million bank cards had already been signed…

50% of YouTube’s traffic is now from mobile

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has revealed that 50% of views on YouTube now come from mobile phones and tablets. This is impressive growth considering…

Here’s the video of Google’s VP Alan Eustace skydiving from space

Google vice president Robert Alan Eustace has broken the record for the highest parachute jump in history, smashing through the sound barrier in the…

Twitter saves Twitpic’s domain and archive at the last minute

We reported last week that Twitpic was shutting down. It was going to close shop on 25 October and that all the photos on…

IBM to launch mobile health-tracking initiative to track Ebola

By relying on its supercomputers’ brain power, IBM is going on a mission to help track Ebola as well as government-related issues in Sierra…

Weekly Roundup #03: SA digital agency landscape, iPhone 6 and BMW’s new hybrid car

Welcome to our Weekly Roundup, our weekly podcast that discusses tech trends, innovation and news. Joining this podcast edition are brand manager Jason Bechervaise,…

Kiwi airline safety video goes viral, thanks to The Lord of the Rings of course

Don’t you just hate airline safety instruction videos? A necessary evil, few airlines have managed to make these clips or demonstration bearable to their…

Facebook set for big social commerce push

It’s amazing what you can find hidden in a piece of code. The future strategy of the world’s largest social network, for instance. The…

SA Tourism confirms site outages due to unpaid hosting bills, blames ‘red tape’

South Africa’s primary online tourism portal has repeatedly gone down over the last week because the organisation behind the site failed to pay its…

Wikileaks releases 2.5m Syrian emails

Whistleblowing site Wikileaks has just published some 2.5-million emails from 680 Syria-related entities or domain names. According to Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange, the files…

Angry Birds, Instapaper hit by Apple app store bug

Developers may prefer iOS to Android, but a few of them aren’t going to be Apple’s biggest fans. Thanks to a technical issue, a…

Siri gets Apple sued in China

Sigh. Another day, another Apple suit in China. This time the Cupertino-based giant is being sued by Zhi Zhen Internet Technology over its voice…

Vodacom CEO to step down in 2013

Vodacom CEO and über geek Pieter Uys will step down as head of the African mobile giant in 2013. Uys will be replaced by…

Higgs Boson: Twitter compares to tech launch, slags Comic Sans slides

Tech events these days are big, glamorous, and full of spectacle. Just look at the Glass demo Google pulled at its recent I/O event….

If ACTA is a nuclear sub, the European Parliament just sank it

The European Parliament has rejected Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a proposed piece of internet legislation that threatened to apply restrictions to online freedom. ACTA…

Google axes more products, Microsoft employee pins them

“More wood behind fewer arrows”. That’s been the operating rationale of Google ever since Larry Page returned as CEO in 2011. Hardly surprising then…

CERN finds particle consistent with Higgs Boson

Scientists at the CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research have found a particle consistent with the illusive Higgs Boson, sometimes referred to as…

Google’s been looking buy Yahoo’s ad tech for a while now

Google is looking to get its hands on Yahoo’s ad technology. In fact, it’s been looking for some time now, having made its first…

Tencent, Activision Blizzard to take ‘Call of Duty Online’ into China

This is interesting. One of China’s biggest social networking powers Tencent has been granted the exclusive rights to distribute Call of Duty Online in…

In-app mobile advertising spend to soar by 2015

As more people opt to use their mobile devices for access and content consumption, brands are catching on. A recent report from Juniper Research…

Is your Chrome broken? Here’s a solution

Chrome is the world’s most popular browser, so when something goes wrong the web’s bound to kick up a bit of a fuss. On…

2oceansvibe radio divorces audio streaming provider NetDynamix

Following an audit, 2oceansvibe Media has announced that it will be parting ways with its streaming provider, NetDynamix. In a statement issued today, 2oceansvibe…

Apple pays Proview $60m to settle iPad trademark case

The battle between Apple and the Chinese company, Proview, has finally reached its conclusion. According to a report by AP, Apple has agreed to…

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Samsung Launches the Galaxy A07 Built for Every Challenge

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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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