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Facebook launches charitable gifts

Facebook getting into social gifting was big. On a human level at least, giving social gifting a charitable bent might be even bigger. The…

Middle East, Africa to see highest cloud traffic growth through 2016

The cloud isn’t a weird abstract concept any more, it hasn’t been for a while now actually. Global cloud traffic is growing massively, especially…

Crowdsourced traffic app Waze gets a fresh lick of social paint

Collaborative traffic and navigation app Waze has just launched its latest update, which features some snazzy new social tools. Waze calls itself the world’s…

AfricaCheck: Africa’s ‘first’ dedicated fact-checking site

Africa’s first website set up exclusively to fact-check public debate launched today. Called Africa Check, the site was developed by the non-profit arm of…

Disney to acquire Lucasfilm for $4bn, release new Star Wars movie in 2015

So… Disney is buying Lucasfilm. Yes, that Lucasfilm — the one behind the Star Wars franchise — is being acquired by The Walt Disney…

Dear Japan, installing Windows 8 doesn’t make your PC touchscreen

Oh Japan, you beautiful crazy country. Media reports from the tech-obsessed Asian country suggest that people misunderstood what happens to your PC when you…

Russia’s Mail.ru set to go global with My.com

When it comes to online names in Russia, you don’t get much bigger than Mail.ru. Now the company is looking to expand its global…

WikiLeaks’ next bombshell could ‘take down a bank or two’

In an interview with Forbes magazine WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has claimed a fresh “megaleak” will target a major US bank “early next year”….

‘Hacktivist’ takes credit for WikiLeaks shutdown

A computer hacker known as the “Jester” who calls himself a “hacktivist for good” is taking credit for temporarily taking down the WikiLeaks website….

Tablet computers take a bite out of PC sales

Worldwide personal computer sales are on track to set a new record this year but tablets like Apple’s iPad are taking a bite out…

Tencent gearing up for Facebook challenge?

It looks like Chinese internet giant Tencent is gearing up to take on Facebook. A report indicates plans by the company to offer users…

American woman mistaken for a cricket match

An American woman with the Twitter name @theashes who was bombarded by messages about cricket was offered a free flight to Australia and started…

A glimpse of the future: Pay TV declines in the face of broadband

The economic downturn has US cable television companies shedding subscribers in record numbers and Americans increasingly “cutting the cord” in favour of cheaper online…

Wi-fi connection catapults Nepal into 21st century

It used to take teacher Mahabir Pun more than two days to check his email from his home in the remote Himalayan village of…

WikiLeaks reveals how China hacked into Google

WikiLeaks has unleashed a fresh torrent of more than a quarter million confidential US cables detailing a wide array of potentially explosive and embarrassing…

World braces for new ‘extremely dangerous’ WikiLeaks revelations

Governments around the world braced for the release of millions of potentially embarrassing US diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks as Washington raced to contain the…

US authorities in new crackdown on pirate music sites

US authorities have shut down dozens of websites offering counterfeit goods and pirated music, five months after a crackdown on sites offering movie downloads….

Pirate Bay founders jail sentence reduced, fines increased

A Swedish appeals court Friday shortened the prison terms of two founders and a financier of Swedish filesharing site The Pirate Bay, but increased…

Philippines gov’t begins broadcasting live online

The Philippine senate has begun streaming sessions live on the internet, in keeping with President Benigno Aquino’s pledge of government transparency, officials said. The…

‘Project’: Richard Branson’s new iPad magazine

British tycoon Richard Branson on Tuesday will unveil a digital magazine tailored for viewing on Apple’s popular iPad tablet computers, according to press conference…

Auschwitz launches online Holocaust study programme

Museum authorities at the site of the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Wednesday said they were launching an online study programme to…

Beatles sell two million songs on iTunes in first week

The Beatles sold more than 450,000 albums and over two million individual songs in the week since their music appeared on Apple’s iTunes, Billboard…

Insurance industry sets its sights on social networking

News reports put Facebook as the most visited website in the US in March this year, having more visits than Google for the first…

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