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Shock jock Gareth Cliff looks set to start new show, including WeChat streaming

South African shock jock Gareth Cliff is set to make a return to broadcasting, but he won’t be on radio, or TV for that…

Want to go to Apple’s WWDC? You’ll need to enter a lottery

Apple’s announced the dates for the 2014 edition of its annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference and if you want tickets, chances are you’re going to…

Facebook Messenger joins the free phonecall brigade

If you’re a Facebook Messenger fan, then you’ll probably be relieved to find out that the social network hasn’t stopped work on the app…

OkCupid tells Firefox users to find another browser

If you’re a regular visitor to dating site OkCupid and you happen to browse the web using Firefox, you might notice something a little…

Introducing LoveBurn: the dating algorithm for geeks

Here at Burn Media we love to innovate and find the right niche for all our readers. Recently we noticed that a sizeable amount…

Take our 3 minute Jobsburn survey today and you could win an iPad mini

As many of you might know by now, one of the key drivers of digital tech community is job creation but more importantly, the…

Muamba collapse sends shockwaves through Twitter [Update]

The sudden collapse of Bolton Wanderers player Fabrice Muamba in this evening’s FA Cup tie against Tottenham Hotspur has sent shockwaves across Twitter. Muamba…

Kony 2012 director, Jason Russell hospitalised after irrational behaviour

One of the filmmakers behind the viral Kony 2012 film, Jason Russell, was hospitalised following alleged irrational behaviour. A man was found in his…

Spammers target Pinterest, take over boards

There’s no doubting Pinterest’s popularity — it flew past the 10-million unique visitors a month mark in near record time. There’s also no doubting…

Groupon given three months to turn its act around

Groupon is in trouble. We’re not talking about its easily replicated business model or its shaky IPO either. The group-buying giant is being taken…

PayPal’s new mobile card reader targets Square, world domination

PayPal is going after mobile payment service Square in big way. The ecommerce giant announced that it is looking to go global with its new payment…

Tweet your way to cheaper pizza

Everyone loves a good pizza — but what people love more is a discount. Pizza outlet Col’Cacchio has just launched its “Slice the Price”…

Pinterest rolls out redesigned profile pages

Up-and-coming social player Pinterest has gone live with the first major update to its profile pages since launching a couple of years ago. The…

Anonymous-OS is fake, ‘wrapped in trojans’

When we found out about Anymous-OS, we had our suspicions that it might not actually be from everyone’s hacktivist group. The worse-than-usual English was…

Tencent set to expand into search, other markets

Chinese internet giant Tencent is already a dominant player in the online space. It owns a number of chat properties, microblogging sites, social networks,…

TED brings ‘ideas worth spreading’ to Android

This is very cool, if a little long in the making. TED, the organisation behind the renowned conference series of the same name, has…

What Firefox has planned for 2012

Last year, Mozilla managed to get Firefox back on track. While the long delay of Firefox 4 gave competitors like the up-and-coming Google Chrome…

Google claims it’s winning the war on bad ads

Google is at war. This time it’s not with Facebook, Apple, or any of the other tech giants. No, this time its target is…

FBI requests Google help after failing to unlock pimp’s cellphone

Here’s one for the books. A US judge has approved request from the FBI that Google give up information on a pimp’s Android phone…

Anonymous-OS goes live, download if you dare

Hey, remember when Anonymous created its own um… anonymous social network? Well the lovable hacktivist scamps behind it seem to have made another go…

Facebook, Google benefit most from Pinterest shares

We know Pinterest is great for driving traffic to sites, but who’s actually benefitting the most from the up-and-comer’s surge in popularity? Logically, it should…

Over a third of China’s online population are mobile-only users [Report]

China has the world’s largest online population, topping out at over 500-million users. That’s interesting enough in its own right. More interesting though, is…

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OPPO Reno15 Series Brings Flagship-Level Hardware Logic to the Mid-Tier in South Africa

HONOR’s customer first strategy is reshaping South Africa’s smartphone market

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