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China’s jail-break free app piracy service set to go global

Earlier this month Tech in Asia looked at KuaiYong, a rogue app store that allows iPhone and iPad users to install pirated apps without…

Twitter rolls out ad network in Middle East, North Africa

Twitter is targeting the Middle East and North Africa in a big way. The social network has reportedly opened commercial operations in the UAE…

Samsung rounds off 2012 with $8-billion in operating profit in Q4

It’s no secret that Samsung had a pretty great 2012. The Korean manufacturer dominated the high-end smartphone market with its best selling Galaxy S…

Facebook cuts off friend-finding access to Twitter’s Vine app

Well now. Hours after Twitter announced the launch of its six-second video sharing service Vine Facebook has blocked the ability to find friends on…

Nokia Q4: a glimmer of hope emerges

Look, things are still bad at Nokia — a company flush with cash doesn’t keep cutting jobs — but it does look like there’s…

Google gives image search a makeover, puts your results front and centre

Google has given image search a fresh new look in what it says is a bid to put your search results first. So, in…

Zuckerberg wears a tie as Obama visits Facebook

US President Barack Obama paid a campaign-style visit to Facebook headquarters on Wednesday where he urged young voters who backed his historic 2008 election…

Washington Post launches social media enabled news aggregation site

Curation and aggregation of news on the web is one of the most contentious topics in online media today. On Wednesday, the Washington Post…

Vodacom launches faster internet

South Africans, always suffering from chronic insufficiency when it comes to internet connectivity have increasingly come to rely upon mobile operators when accessing the…

Vodacom and Mxit to host the Mobile Media Mindblast conference with Google

The three biggest players in South African mobile marketing are hosting the first ever Mobile Media Mindblast on 3 June 2011 in Cape Town….

Obama visits Facebook headquarters

President Barack Obama will head to Facebook’s headquarters on Wednesday to tout his budget cuts to followers of the social media powerhouse, which he…

Nigeria unseats South Africa as Africa’s biggest Opera Mini user

Software company Opera, announced yesterday that Nigeria has taken the place of South Africa as the country in Africa with the highest number of…

Watch out internet it’s the ‘Iran-ternet’!

Though the protests failed to overthrow the regime, it was in Iran that the true might of the internet as a tool for freedom…

ProPublica wins Pulitzer with digital-only series

For the first time ever, a Pulitzer Prize was awarded for a ‘digital-only’ story. ProPublica, a non-profit news startup, scooped up a Pulitzer Prize…

The official Nelson Mandela Twitter account is live

Though no figure was given, it was widely believed that the 2009 “transfer of control” of the @cnnbrk Twitter account — which at the…

Chinese social network IPO hopes to raise $583-million

China’s most popular social network Renren filed for an initial public offering in the United States on Friday in the hopes of raising as…

Net Prophet offers mentorship opportunity to budding tech startups

Net Prophet, South Africa’s technology startup event, is offering promising technology start-up ventures the opportunity to receive three free days of personal hands-on mentoring…

ANCYL no longer wants to shut Twitter down

After the ruckus over how Twitter is a place for “desktop activists” who are disconnected from the masses, the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) has…

African developers to compete on innovative Android mobile apps

Every day more than 300 000 Android devices are activated globally. A growing number of these mobile device activations are in markets across Africa,…

Arianna Huffington dismissive of ‘unpaid bloggers’ lawsuit

Arianna Huffington, co-founder of The Huffington Post, has dismissed as “utterly without merit” a lawsuit filed against the website claiming compensation for unpaid bloggers….

Google shares drop 5% after first quarter earnings report

Despite reporting a US$2.3 billion profit, Google shares fell in after-hours trading on Thursday as the internet giant’s earnings came in slightly below Wall…

Google’s search algorithm is a never-ending work in progress

The head of Google’s search evaluation team shakes his head dismissively at the idea of anyone thinking the firm’s winning internet-sifting formula is completed….

Lenovo at MWC 2025: AI-Powered Laptops, Sustainable Concepts, and a Glimpse into the Future

Smart Tech: Turning the Tide on South Africa’s Water Crisis

Celebrating Innovation: Redmi Note 14 Post-Launch Event in South Africa

Verto Launches Global Business Award to Fuel African Startup Expansion

GITEX Africa: Shaping the Future of Tech and Positioning Africa as a Global Powerhous

Gozem Secures $30M Series B to Fuel Super App Expansion Across Francophone Africa

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Honor Magic V3 launches, four things to know

Honor Magic V3, a Guinness world record attempt

Lucid CEO becomes strategic advisor

Golf 8.5 update with lots of Life

Tariffs trump US new car affordability needs