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Breaking: Primedia shutting down Prezence after unsuccessful sale attempt

It is official, Prezence Digital will shut its doors come June. Primedia Group has announced today that the award-winning digital agency has ceased taking…

Discovery Insure wants you to drive like a boss with this new app

It’s well known that South Africa’s roads aren’t the safest in the world. Local insurance company Discovery Insure agrees, and has recently released an…

5 things you should know about Apple’s $3-billion Beats buy

Apple is officially acquiring the stylish audio product company Beats for a total of US$3-billion. Founded by Jimmy Iovine and Dr Dre (formally Andre…

Microsoft reveals Skype Translate: a real time voice interpreter

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that in the future Microsoft’s Skype will be able to translate voice and video calls in near-real-time. Nadella’s news…

Remembering a poet and an icon: Twitter mourns Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou, the renowned poet, novelist and actress, has died aged 86 sparking a wave of mourning on Twitter. During her long career, Angelou…

Think you’re priceless? The Nigerian Bride Price app would beg to differ

An app just told me how much I am supposedly worth. I guess this negates the tedious dealings when my potential suitor makes his…

Oooh, Julian Assange’s TV show is on the horizon

This was inevitable, in fact I am a little surprised it took this long. Wikileaks infamous leader will be coming to a small screen…

Facebook rolls out merged email and Timeline addresses

Facebook announced that it will be updating the vanity urls of its users to match their Facebook email addresses. What’s that you say? Facebook…

Apple: price-fixing allegations ‘simply not true’

Apple’s has rejected claims from the US Justice Department that it colluded with some of the world’s biggest book publishers to fix prices. In…

YouTube opens up partner programme to everyone

YouTube’s partner programme is what allows people to make money — real money that is — from the video-sharing platform. For most of its…

Facebook is giving you more of your data, how nice

Facebook has decided that it will allow users to download more of their private data. This, it claims, will allow them to back up…

StumbleUpon joins the Facebook Timeline party

Web users the world over love StumbleUpon as a procrastination tool. Now the social discovery engine has become the latest big name to launch…

Facebook post lands KFC in hot water

Wow. Giant fast food chains just can’t seem to get social media right. First McDonald’s had its nightmare badtag run and now KFC is…

China to spend 350bn online by 2015

Half a billion internet users and an economy which, although not immune to international economic pressures, is still on the up means that China…

Indonesian earthquake leaves Twitter shaken, tsunami fears subside

An 8.7 magnitude earthquake has hit the off the coast of the Indonesian island Sumatera in the Indian Ocean. At first details were scant…

What should we make of a model that strips for Facebook likes?

Using Facebook likes to make a billboard’s beard is one thing, but using them to make a model strip? Well that’s a whole new…

Google gives Google+ a makeover

There are those who think Google’s approach to its social effort Google+ was wrong from the start. It was rushed, they say, a desperate…

Chinese web powers vow to clamp down on rumours

Three of China’s biggest online players are vowing to clamp down even further on false rumours being spread online. Search giant Baidu, along with…

Iran denies internet shutdown

With reports that Iran is set to restrict access to the internet by August, equally fervent denials are beginning to circulate. According to news…

‘Iran-ternet’ reportedly set to roll out fully by August

Iran plans to completely block its citizens from accessing the web by August. By then it hopes to restrict access to its own sanitised,…

Instagram for Android goes past 5m downloads in six days

Twitter may have been abuzz with users claiming they were ready to leave Instagram after it was bought out by Facebook but it might…

Facebook doles out $1bn for Instagram

Just days after Instagram launched an Android version of its immensely popular app, Facebook has bought the photo-sharing social network. Facebook is estimated to…

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Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

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

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TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

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