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Facebook shares surge back to IPO levels

If you were buying Facebook shares during the panicked selling spree that followed its less than perfect IPO, you may have been onto something….

Turns out the NSA knows pretty much everything you do online

Quick question: when you found out about the NSA’s online spying programme PRISM, did you shut down your Google, Facebook and Yahoo! accounts? Nope?…

Zynga taking on Bang With Friends for trademark infringement

Bang with Friends, the Facebook app that aids in casual hookups hasn’t exactly had an easy time of it since launching. In May, it…

Ex Facebook CTO Bret Taylor launches Quip, a mobile word processor

Among the wave of employees who left Facebook when the social network went public last year, perhaps the biggest exit was CTO Bret Taylor….

Google launches Views, allows you to add 360 degree panoramas to Maps

This looks pretty cool. Google has launched a community site called Views, which allows you to upload and share panoramic 360% photos to Maps….

Instagram blocking, deleting photos from third-party Windows Phone service

If you own a Windows phone but hanker after the filtered awesomeness that is Instagram, then we’ve got some more bad news for you….

Love Grumpy Cat? Get your hands on a Grumppuccino soon

We had a cappuccino once. It was awful. Then again, it had nothing to do with a meme, and we love memes. Which is…

Assange tirades against ‘embarrassing’ Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard

While accepting a Walkley Award for “Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism” on behalf Wikileaks, Julian Assange launched into a tirade aimed at Australian Prime…

‘Travesty of justice’ sees 5 UAE internet activists jailed [Update]

In a widely condemned ruling, five activists from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been jailed for periods of up to three years on…

Arabic explodes on Twitter

Arabic is exploding as a language on Twitter. In a reflection of the social network’s importance to the “Arab Spring” (which saw the overthrow…

Apple pulls ‘Jew or not Jew’ app worldwide

Apple has pulled the “Jew or not Jew” app from its app stores worldwide following a lawsuit from French anti-racism groups, reports the Register….

What’s it like to work for Twitter? Not that great spills ex-employee

With soaring stock valued at over US$7-billion, Twitter, a veritable startup success story, has without doubt been one of the most desirable employers in…

Microsoft joins a consortium in a bid for Yahoo!

Microsoft has joined a small league of companies in a bid for Yahoo!. The software giant signed a non-disclosure agreement making a deal to…

China overtakes US to become largest smartphone market

China has overtaken the US to become the world’s largest smartphone market in terms of devices sold. That’s according to a report by research…

Groupon shares tumble but critics’ glee may be premature

Groupon’s fun time, it would seem, has come to an end. Following a 15% drop in the value of Groupon’s stock price on the…

A ‘touch’ reveals the artistic side of Google Street View

Aside from being one of the internet’s best procrastination tools — OMG! Look, it’s my house! — Google Street View is also said to…

ANC Wikipedia page ‘wikibombed’ in secrecy bill protest

Despite international and local outcry, the controversial “Protection of State Information Bill”, more commonly referred to the “secrecy bill”, has taken its first steps…

China is the next eCommerce giant [Study]

China is set to overtake the US as the world’s largest ecommerce market by 2015. That’s according to research from the Boston Consulting Group…

Google says final farewell to Wave, six other products in latest ‘spring clean’

Google has axed seven more products as it looks to clean up and simplify its offerings. This is the third such clean out in…

Yahoo! sued for copyright infringement

Yahoo Inc.’s Southeast Asia division is being sued by Asian media group Singapore Press Holdings for reproducing content from its newspaper without permission. Singapore…

Forget Kevin Bacon, Facebook says it’s 4.74 degrees of separation

We all know the one hard and fast rule of Hollywood: Within a maximum of six steps anyone in that industry can be connected…

UCT, media houses turn sites black in protest against ‘secrecy bill’

South Africans took to social media en-masse as they looked to express their anger at the Protection of State Information Bill, commonly referred to…

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

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TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

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