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Live performance streaming site SkyRoomLive boasts 1000% user growth within first year

South Africa’s music industry could do with some innovation. Heck, the global scene is begging for it. Ever since the digital revolution, a mixture…

Samsung expects a poor quarterly profit, smartphones wearing it down

Samsung is expecting its quarterly profits to punch in at 4.1-trillion won (US$3.8-billion) — that’s about 60% down from last year’s 10.2-trillion won forecast….

EU says yes to Facebook’s Whatsapp acquisition

Facebook is one step closer to officially owning WhatsApp after EU regulators approved the US$19-billion purchase. The regulators decided that the two were not…

Failure to launch: Germany’s Rocket Internet goes public, shares drop 14%

Massive German startup factory Rocket Internet went public today and reactions haven’t exactly been enthusiastic. Shortly after its shares first started trading, the company’s…

Get the Popcorn: The ‘Netflix of torrents’ is finally available on iOS

Popcorn Time, the popular entertainment platform that makes watching torrented movies and series a seamless experience has finally launched on iOS, making the so-called,…

Microsoft mystery event gets a location

This had better be worth all the fuss. Microsoft’s mystery event, scheduled for a couple of hours’ time, finally has a location. The announcement…

Google: Government take down requests on the up, even in Western democracies

Government requests to take down online content are on the rise, even in Western democracies not usually associated with censorship. That’s according Google’s latest…

No Barnes & Noble at today’s Microsoft event [Report]

If you were looking forward to Microsoft announcing that it would be going after Amazon tonight, sorry. You’re going to have to readjust your…

Mozilla to build ‘simple’ iPad browser

This is interesting. Mozilla is set to build a browser for the iPad. And here’s the thing: it has no tabs or search bars….

Facebook to pay $10-million in sponsored stories settlement

Ever thought that the ads proclaiming how your Facebook friends “like” some or other fan page are an invasion of their privacy? No? Well,…

Is Amazon trying to steal Microsoft’s thunder with rumoured price cut?

A secretive “major announcement” from a major tech player tends to put the rumour mill into overdrive. Adding fuel to speculation that Microsoft could…

Oops — ICANN published the home addresses of new domain applicants

Whoops. It seems that the people over at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) accidentally included the home addresses of the…

UK council unbans 9-year-old from blogging about school lunches

One of the great things about blogging is that you’re free to write about whatever you want. Unless you’re in the UK, and you…

Microsoft to buy Yammer for $1bn: Could this be its big reveal?

Microsoft is set to buy business-focused social network Yammer for US$1-billion, according to a Wall Street Journal article, citing the ubiquitous people “familiar with…

Naspers continues OLX rollout, scuppers Dealfish Nigeria and Kenya

Naspers is shutting down Dealfish, its Nigerian and Kenyan free classified sites, and replacing them with OLX. The move comes as the emerging markets…

8ta slashes BlackBerry BIS offering, concentrates on social

South Africa’s fifth mobile operator 8ta today announced that it would be offering a BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) package for around half its usual…

Virgin’s Crimson Bandit revealed

After apparently losing his diary a couple of days ago, Virgin founder Richard Branson sent the company’s global social media following on a hunt…

Nando’s takes dig at SABC after studio fire

Nando’s must be thinking that Karma, that female canine herself, is very much on its side. A studio at the South African Broadcasting Corporation,…

Microsoft partners with Yelp in Bing Local search deal

Looks like Google isn’t the only one looking to bring social to its local search results. Microsoft today announced that it is partnering up…

Branson vs The Crimson Bandit: Social skullduggery or advertising genius?

On 13 June Richard Branson, world-famous founder and leader of the Virgin Group, wrote on his blog that he had lost his diary. In…

Nokia lays off thousands, sells luxury brand

Nokia has announced that it plans to lay off thousands of employees and sell its luxury brand Vertu in a bid to “return the…

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Aura Edition Review: A Sleek, AI-Powered Ultrabook for the Work-Anywhere Era

WeThinkCode_ and South Cape TVET College Bring Software Engineering Training to Rural SA Youth

Flow launches the world’s first and only shoppable audience marketplace

Fintura Heads to Silicon Valley After Winning SA Startup World Cup

Capitec and Mama Money Launch Fintech Partnership to Empower Migrant Workers Across Africa

Flow Unveils World’s First Shoppable Audience Marketplace – A Fintech-Led Revolution in Digital Targeting

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

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

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel