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A messy divorce: no more Twitter cards for Instagram photos

The split between Twitter and Instagram just got uglier. The photo-sharing service has disabled the ability for the social network to properly share photos…

Facebook unveils top 25 games of 2012, Zynga’s slide continues

Facebook has announced its 25 top rated games for 2012 and Zynga which you would once have expected to dominate such a list doesn’t…

Wii U gets a Google Maps injection, bonus dose of Panorama View

Google Maps has now been incorporated in a downloadable app for the Wii U that will be available from January 2013. Combining the Wii…

BlackBerry set to launch BBM Money app in Indonesia

Indonesia is a seriously important market for BlackBerry. Although it no longer holds the top OS spot the Canadian manufacturer still owns the handset…

Child friendly content now available on Kindle

Back in September Kindle released FreeTime, a service that keeps your kids in a safe zone for content like movies and games. Now the…

Facebook Messenger now allows signups with just a name and number

Well now. Rumours that Facebook was poised to buy social messaging service WhatsApp may have been false, but the social network looks set to…

A new Yahoo! is nearly upon us, here’s what it might look like

Yahoo!’s home page is set for a radical redesign. And, according to AllThingsD, it’s nearing completion. The design reportedly borrows heavily from Windows 8…

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…

Bees Awards: World’s best social media campaigns in the spotlight

Twenty leading professionals from all continents across the world will judge excellence in the fast-growing social media marketing industry via the The Bees Awards…

Facebook now valued at $50-billion

Facebook announced on Friday that it had raised $1.5 billion from investors in a private share offering that valued the booming social network at…

HP announces sweeping changes, appoints five new board members

Months after CEO Mark Hurd was forced to resign, Hewlett-Packard announced a major shake up of its board Thursday, the latest in a series…

Dewani trial: Round one to Twitter in the court room

The London judge who is hearing the extradition case of murder suspect Shrien Dewani has ordered that the use of Twitter in the courtroom…

25 years today: The story of the world’s first PC virus

25 years ago today, the world’s first computer virus was born in Lahore, Pakistan — a development that would spawn countless problems for ordinary…

Mobile payment systems making inroads into the US market

In a sure sign of things to come, US coffee chain Starbucks on Wednesday began allowing customers in its US stores to keep their…

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