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Mango claims SA first with flight-booking app, plans to launch more soon

Traveling in South Africa may have become a little bit easier following the launch of Mango’s mobile booking application. The budget airline’s app allows…

Farewell old friend: Philips exits the consumer electronics game

One shouldn’t get overly sentimental when it comes to big corporates shutting down certain divisions, but in the case of Philips it’s difficult not…

Amazon’s Q4 report: profits down by 45%, sales up by 22%

Judging by Amazon’s fourth quarter report, things aren’t all that peachy at the internet giant. The company reported less than impressive results with net…

Purported Anonymous video appeals to world to speak out against SA [Update]

A person purporting to be a part of online hacker collective Anonymous has posted a message and video appealing to the wider hacktivist community…

WhatsApp comes under fire for violating international number privacy laws

Uh oh. WhatsApp, the must-have app for smartphone owners everywhere, is in trouble because it apparently contravenes international piracy laws. Canadian and Dutch data…

Google Map Maker volunteers make North Korea a little less mysterious

North Korea just got a little less mysterious thanks to a group of volunteers on Google’s Map Maker service. The internet giant announced 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….

RIM CEO abruptly stops BBC interview citing ‘national security issue’

“Alright, so it’s over, [the] interview’s over. Please, you can’t use that Rory, it’s just not fair… We’ve dealt with this, this is a…

Greenpeace wants Facebook to ‘unfriend’ coal and ‘Like’ green energy

A few member of environmental activism group, Greenpeace, were outside Facebook headquarters on Wednesday, calling on the social network to “unfriend” coal energy for…

Webby Awards nominees announced, from Angry Birds to the BBC

With a plethora of award shows, Hollywood devotes an entire season to discovering who was the best of the best, but for the web,…

Elon Musk’s Trillion Dollar Pay Deal Could Change Everything

Lenovo Tab P12 Pro Review – A Premium Android Tablet That Shines for Entertainment

IUX Redefining Online Trading and Affiliate Partnership

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

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

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel