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Facebook gets 72 hours to remove paedophile monitoring page

A Northern Irish man, who is a convicted sex offender, has won a court order, forcing the removal of a Facebook page designed to…

Tit for tat: China claims Cisco is aiding US spies

Hey, remember when Chinese tech giants Huawei and ZTE were deemed security threats by the US? Well that tit has been met with tat…

Syria vanishes from the web

Syria has disappeared from the internet. That’s not an exaggeration either, nearly the entire Middle Eastern country has been cut off from the web….

Online community rallies to free Ethiopian blogger

In July 2012 an Ethiopian journalist and blogger was sentenced for 18 years after writing a blog post critical of the government’s anti-terrorist laws….

Andrew Mason may be fired as Groupon CEO

Oh wow. According to “sources familiar with the matter” Groupon’s board of directors are considering axing the group buying service’s founder and CEO Andrew…

Samsung ordered to remunerate former employee for his patents

Samsung’s woes never seem to end. In another form of patent “war”, the Seoul Central District court has ruled that the South Korean electronics…

RIM renames BlackBerry App World, launches $10k developer programme

BlackBerry today announced a series of updates in the run up to the launch of BlackBerry 10 on 30 January. Speaking at a BlackBerry…

LinkedIn announces IPO

Career-oriented social network LinkedIn on Thursday registered with US regulators to have an initial public offering of stock. The Mountain View, California-based startup filed…

The BBC should be adapting rather than shutting sites down

The BBC is a media organization that inspires tremendous amounts of jealousy within the media industry because of its huge budget collected from all…

Sony hits back against Apple, Nintendo in the mobile gaming market

With Nintendo’s new 3DS and Apple’s iPad emerging as the devices of choice for mobile gaming, Japanese entertainment giant Sony on Thursday unveiled a…

Global internet population hits 2 billion, mobile users top 5 billion

The number of internet users worldwide has mushroomed to reach the two billion mark, the head of the UN’s telecommunications agency, Hamadoun Toure, said…

Russian hackers target Mail & Guardian Online, site taken down

The Mail & Guardian Online, one of South Africa’s oldest and most respected sources of news and opinion, has been taken offline after an…

Cell C heads for the clouds: A move towards ‘mobile 2.0’

Smartphones have taken the mobile experience from just simple voice calls to a rich social media and application-driven existence. The rise of smartphones mean…

Techies, startups, entrepreneurs pile in for Silicon Cape meet

There’s a growing startup scene at the tip of Africa. And it was more evident than ever at a Silicon Cape networking event on…

Facebook and Twitter for X-Box LIVE comes to SA

Social media integration is all the rage. Only a few months ago Microsoft launched Xbox LIVE, an online multiplayer gaming network, in South Africa…

Online news startup launches with heavyweight backing

Ongo, a subscription-based service backed by The Washington Post, The New York Times and USA Today, launched on Tuesday promising a “new way to…

Egypt blocks Twitter [and possibly Facebook] after day of rising protests

Twitter was inaccessible in Egypt on Tuesday in what was believed to be a move by the government to thwart protesters using the social…

Twitter forecasting 2011 ad revenue of $150 million

Microblogging sensation Twitter is expected to rake in US$150-million in advertising revenue this year, according to a study published Monday. This is largely due…

Google’s Schmidt to get $100-million, possible TV talk show

Google’s outgoing chief executive Eric Schmidt, who is set to step down in April for co-founder Larry Page, is set to receive US$100-million in…

Internet running out of addresses, but talk of ‘Ipocalypse’ dismissed

The internet is running out of addresses, and in the next few weeks the last of the four billion addresses available on the IPv4…

Apple hits 10 billion app downloads, winner nearly blows $10 000 prize

On Saturday, Apple hit the landmark that everyone had been anticipating, registering the 10 billionth download from the App Store, which offers more than…

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enza Secures $6.75M Seed Funding to Revolutionize African Payments

MGX’s $2 billion investment in Binance marks historic institutional backing

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Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

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