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Life after Andrew Mason: Groupon’s stock up 40%

Things haven’t been easy for Groupon since it went public in 2011. The company tanked after its most recent quarterly earnings report, losing nearly…

India’s Vserv.mobi teams up with Yahoo! to target South East Asia

Indian mobile ad network Vserv.mobi has announced a strategic partnership with Yahoo! that will see the two companies attempting to conquer South East Asia….

Facebook Home has 500k+ installations a week after launch

A week after its release onto the Google Play Store, Facebook Home has been downloaded more than 500 000 times. That’s not the best…

Reddit faces outages in midst of DDoS attack

Reddit is experiencing intermittent outages apparently due to a malicious DDoS attack. People trying to access the site, which labels itself “the front page…

Lenovo looks set to buy IBM’s x86 server business

Computing giant IBM is apparently set to sell part of the server side of its business to Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo. According to the…

Lumia sales solid but Nokia still misses with Q1 results

Nokia today reported its Q1 results for 2013 and while things look good for its Lumia range of smartphones, the company still has some…

LinkedIn goes native with its smartphone apps

This is interesting. LinkedIn has completely revamped it smartphone apps, following Facebook’s lead in abandoning HTML 5 for native efforts. Officially the professional social…

BlackBerry’s cloud-based music service launches in beta

Following recent rumours that BlackBerry was set to launch a new product called BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) Music, Research In Motion (RIM) announced the arrival…

Facebook, RIM, & Twitter to discuss ‘social media ban’ with UK government

Following statements by UK Prime Minister David Cameron, in the wake of riots which rocked England, suggesting that social networking sites and services should…

iPhone 5 – now launching 2012?

Recent rumours suggesting that Apple’s iPhone 5 will appear in October, have been usurped by a new set suggesting that the phone will now…

Silicon Cape launches startup academy

Cape Town based IT movement, the Silicon Cape has launched a new initiative it is calling the Silicon Cape Academy. The initiative takes the…

Facebook to stream Miramax films

Facebook users can now stream cult classics within their browser, following the launch of a free Miramax App. The launch follows in the wake…

Vietnam government accused of cyber-terrorism

An activist group inside Vietnam and around the world has accused the Vietnam’s communist government of launching a cyber-attack which has crippled its website….

Skype to buy GroupMe

Skype has announced that it plans buy mobile messaging startup GroupMe, for an undisclosed sum of money. GroupMe is a mobile messaging platform which…

Hong Kong stock exchange website hacked

Honk Kong police have arrested a 29-year old man following a cyber attack on the city’s stock exchange website. The attack, the second in…

German authorities claim Facebook ‘Like’ violates privacy laws

Facebook users in a northeastern German state have been told to stay away from the “Like” button (Gefällt mir in German) on Facebook. Government…

Australian fired for moaning at company on Facebook

Damien O’Keefe, a technician at Australian retail group The Good Guys was dismissed for complaining about his company on Facebook. The complaints were somewhat…

China’s Todou sees shares tumble on Wall Street debut

One of China’s largest online video companies has seen its shares fall sharply in the wake of its Wall Street debut. Shares in the…

Budweiser, Facebook, and football create history

Creating a small slice of history, non-league sides Ascot United and Wembley FC will be the first teams ever to have their football match…

Following Motorola deal S&P downgrades Google in opinion reversal

Analysts from ratings agency, Standards and Poor (S&P) have downgraded Google’s stock.The ratings agency has given a simple explanation for the downgrade: It believes…

Time releases 50 best websites of 2011

What does a site encouraging people to upload personalised eight track playlists, mixtape style, have in common with one that donates ten grains of…

Facebook ‘smoking gun’ evidence blows 84% ownership claim out of the water

Facebook has produced what it claims is “smoking gun” evidence that a New York man’s contentious claim to majority ownership of the hugely successful…

Samsung Celebrated for Transformative Tech by Consumer Technology Association

GPT 5.2 lands in the API and could reshape how SA builds with AI

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

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

GTA 6 Is Officially Coming in 2026: The New Date, the Delays and the South African Reality Check

The Gaming Gear South Africans Are Actually Buying This December

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