Programs & Apps

Here are the winners of the 2020 MTN Business App of the Year Awards

The winners of this year’s MTN Business App of the Year Awards have been named — with South African financial apps, education apps, and…

Apple leans into TikTok format with new Clips video editor update

Apple has its eyes firmly set on the short-form video market as it rolled out “its biggest update” for its video creation app, Clips,…

Local team wins $5000 from Microsoft to tackle GBV in South Africa

Microsoft has announced the winners of its Safe@Home hackathon, with the winning team receiving $5000 from the company to further develop their solution. The…

Capitec brings shares investment platform EasyEquities to app

Capitec has brought the EasyEquities investing platform to its banking app to help clients invest in shares in South Africa and the USA. The…

Pick n Pay buys Bottles app to expand grocery delivery

Pick n Pay has announced that it has purchased the on-demand, online grocery and alcohol app Bottles to expand its services. Bottles originally launched…

Uber Eats now delivers over-the-counter medication

As part of its expanding delivery services, Uber Eats has announced a partnership with Medicare Health that allows users to order over-the-counter pharmacy medication….

COVID Alert SA: Your questions about South Africa’s contact-tracing app answered

In September, the Department of Health announced the launch of COVID Alert SA — a contact-tracing app for South Africa that will alert users…

Instagram is killing the underused and super creepy ‘following’ activity tab

Instagram is doing away with its “following” activity tab, a feature that allows you to see your followers activity on the platform. The invasive…

Instagram Threads: Facebook’s new ‘camera-first’ app for your closest friends

Facebook on Thursday officially revealed Instagram Threads, a new standalone “camera-first” app designed to keep Instagram friends connected. The app allows users to share…

Google Lens now features ‘style ideas’ to help you plan your looks

Google Lens can now help you put an outfit together with “style ideas”, a new feature that allows you to search for fashionable looks…

Uber Works is a new app that connects job seekers with employers

Uber on Wednesday announced the launch of a new app that gives job seekers and employers a platform to connect. Called Uber Works, the…

Google’s ‘Personal Safety’ app will detect car crashes, call 911 for you

A report by XDA Developers on Monday revealed that Google’s upcoming Pixel 4 smartphones will include a new “Personal Safety” app that can detect…

Google’s Android 10 (Go Edition) will be 10% faster and more ‘memory efficient’

Google on Wednesday revealed new improvements coming to Android 10 (Go Edition), the company’s operating system for entry-level smartphones. According to the company, Android 10…

Gmail is rolling out dark mode support to Android and iOS

Google on Tuesday announced the rollout of Gmail’s dark mode to both Android and iOS devices. The company teased the new theme in a…

Opera Mini browser adds offline file sharing using WiFi Direct

If you happen to use Opera Mini as your main smartphone browser, you can now also use it as a file transfer service. The…

You can now back up your Android phone from the Google One app

Google on Thursday announced that Google One, its premium cloud storage service, will soon let you back up your device to the cloud from…

Mozilla launches built-in VPN for Firefox Test Pilot programme

Mozilla on Tuesday officially launched the Firefox Private Network, its own built-in VPN, as part of the Firefox Test Pilot programme. The company first…

Google teases Play Pass release right before Apple confirms Apple Arcade launch

We first heard about Google Play Pass in early August when a report revealed that the subscription service from Google will offer Android users…

Some Google Play apps were infected by the ‘Joker’ virus, report reveals

A Trojan virus titled “the Joker” was last week found in 24 Google Play Store apps, a report by malware analyst Aleksejs Kuprins revealed via…

Truecaller now has 150m daily active users across the world

Truecaller now has over 150-million daily active users, the company announced last week. This comes after its announcement in April 2018, when it crossed…

Zao, a Chinese face-swap app for iOS, goes viral in China

A new deepfake iOS app called Zao went viral in China this weekend after users grew concerned about the app’s potential privacy violations, a…

Spotify will let users share 15-second song clips to Facebook Messenger

Spotify will now let Facebook users share 15-second long video clips to Facebook Stories, the company announced on Friday. The feature addition, which in…

Microsoft Outlook is getting Dark Mode on Android and iOS

Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it will soon be bringing Dark Mode to mobile Office 365 apps, starting with Outlook on both Android and…

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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

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TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

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