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Is your life ‘powered by the web’? Google could give you $25k

Okay so you spend a lot of time on the web, but does it actually power your life? If the answer is “yes, holy…

Google looking to add Swahili, Igbo, Zulu to Translate roster

Google is looking to add a number of African languages, including Hausa, Igbo, Zulu and Swahili to Google Translate. A post on Google Africa’s…

Facebook launches new photo colab feature

This is an idea so obviously good that you’ve got to wonder why it took Facebook so long to come up with it. The…

Wiki Loves Monuments to launch world’s largest photography comp in SA

The world’s largest photography competition, Wiki Loves Monuments, is being launched next month in order to capture South Africa’s heritage. Besides the theme, the…

ANN7 gaffe videos removed from YouTube, is it prepping for online war?

A number of YouTube videos highlighting gaffes by the anchors of newly launched South African news channel ANN7 have been removed, apparently over copyright…

Ballmer departure may have been more sudden than Microsoft let on

Steve Ballmer’s retirement may have been more sudden and a lot less smooth than Microsoft suggested when it made the announcement on Friday. According…

Pakistan set to end year-long YouTube blockade

For the past year, people in Pakistan have been unable to watch YouTube videos. But that looks set to change after officials in the…

Top Chinese official urges ‘more forceful’ online controls

China needs to be “more forceful” in the way it manages the web. That’s according to one top government official, as the country attempts…

Student wins international award for generator built from used hard drives

A student from the University of Cape Town (UCT), a prominent South African tertiary institution, has won an international innovation award for a wind…

Twitter relaunch a quest for ‘simplicity’, says Twitter Platform Chief

So the “new, new Twitter” has rolled out and there are the lovers and haters. But what does Twitter say about the rollout? Ryan…

Spotify launches ‘Spotify radio’ to its 2.5-million paying subscribers

Daniel Ek, CEO of online music service Spotify took the stage at LeWeb in Paris to announce ‘Spotify Radio’ a new app for the…

TweetDeck ditches Adobe, launches new HTML 5 Twitter apps

Coinciding with the launch of a new Twitter interface, TweetDeck has also undergone a drastic redesign. Along with the redesigned desktop version of the…

Online auction site Bidorbuy launches app for iDevices

Online auction site Bidorbuy has launched an app designed to work across a range of Apple’s iDevices. The South African-based site, which claims to…

New Twitter ‘great for brands’, enables easy tweet embedding for websites

Twitter has rolled out a slew of changes. Included in the changes are a redesign and features which the social network claims will make…

Samsung’s Australian Christmas wish against Apple granted

Just in time for the integral Christmas sales period, despite Apple’s claims of copyright infringement, courts have ruled that Samsung can sell the contentious…

Google+ draws Gmail, Contacts into its circle

Google is integrating features of its nascent social effort, Google+, into Gmail and contacts. The new features allow people to grow their circles, filter…

Facebook fixes bug that gave access to private photos

Social networking giant Facebook has fixed a bug in its photo sharing system. The bug allowed users to view pictures that other users, including…

The future is social, local, mobile, says Google’s Eric Schmidt

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt says that all the “interesting applications” of the future are going to be a combination of social, local and mobile….

YouTube launches localised Nigerian site

Online video-sharing titan YouTube has launched a dedicated localised site for Nigeria. The announcement comes just days after a similar launch in Uganda. According…

Facebook, Twitter unveil top trending topics of 2011

Status updates are at the very heart of the Facebook experience. They’re how its 800-million strong community shares thoughts, emotions and ideas. Now the…

Facebook finally rolls out Timeline

Facebook is finally rolling out its long-awaited Timeline feature. The first country to receive the update to the world’s largest social network, announced in…

Russian ‘Facebook rally’ hailed as success despite arrests

Thousands of Russians gathered at a so-called “Facebook rally”, protesting the results of recent legislative elections in the country. The elections were won by…

Bitcoin Surges As Market Relief Rally Meets Trump’s Crypto Backing

Insider Threats Surge In South African Organisations As AI Expands Cyber Risk

Anthropic Refuses To Let AI Spy On Customers

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

OPPO Reno15 Series Lands In South Africa With Big Cameras And Bigger Battery Ambitions

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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