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#TexasShooting: Latest US mass shooting reignites debate online

A shooting in a rural Texas church Sunday left 26 dead, and reignited debates around gun control in the US. Among the dead were…

Facebook evens the playing field by discontinuing ‘dark posts’

At the end of October, Facebook broke the news that it planned to introduce a new advertising feature that would lead to any paid…

WhatsApp down worldwide

Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp experienced a brief outage Friday morning. Users, voicing concerns on Facebook and Twitter, were reportedly unable to send or receive…

YouTube Kids app adds profiles that age with your children

YouTube Kids — a child-friendly, filtered app — has been updated to include individual profiles that adapt to a child’s age. The company has announced…

#ZumaQandA: DA walks out of Parliament after verbal scuffle

South Africa may have expected a relatively smooth question and answer session between President Jacob Zuma and the rest of Parliament today, after the…

WhatsApp Status, Instagram Stories both top 300m users

On the back of its quarterly financial statement and clarification of its user numbers, Facebook this week announced the figures behind its two other…

Here’s Jack Dorsey’s manifesto for running Twitter and Square

Twitter co-founder and newly returned CEO Jack Dorsey on Monday outlined his plan to run both the social media network and Square, the payments-based…

Facebook, Eutelsat to provide satellite internet to Africa

Facebook has inked a deal with French satellite giant Eutelsat which will see the two partnering to provide internet services to under-served areas across…

16 times the Woolworst Twitter account was totally on point

If you’ve spent any time at all on South African Twitter, chances are you’ve experienced at least one Twitter storm involving Woolworths. It makes…

What does success mean for women in Africa?

Over the last few weeks, Nigerians have taken to Twitter to discuss what it meant to be a woman in Nigeria. The conversation highlighted…

Instagram community grows to more than 400m, sharing 80m photos daily

Instagram, the photo and video sharing app, has announced that its community has grown to more than 400 million users with more than 80…

#AskTrump: how The Donald’s Twitter session went catastrophically wrong

The Internet rubbed its collective hands in glee and disbelief last night as Republican joker and serial offender Donald Trump embarked on an ill-considered…

A ‘dislike’ button could spell disaster for brands on Facebook

It was announced earlier this week, by Mark Zuckerburg himself that Facebook is in the throws of testing a dislike button — or something…

Huawei’s All-Optical smart-home showcase unleashes a new era of home connectivity in Africa

Broadband Africa Forum 2024

Applications for the 2025 Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship are open

Africa’s AI Revolution: Reclaiming the Digital Narrative

South Africa’s Deskless Workers: A Workforce Under Strain

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

What is Northvolt worth for German car companies?

Jaguar rebranding creative is crazy – good?

German luxury cars require a rethink for China

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#TexasShooting: Latest US mass shooting reignites debate online

Facebook evens the playing field by discontinuing ‘dark posts’

WhatsApp down worldwide

YouTube Kids app adds profiles that age with your children

#ZumaQandA: DA walks out of Parliament after verbal scuffle

WhatsApp Status, Instagram Stories both top 300m users

Here’s Jack Dorsey’s manifesto for running Twitter and Square

Facebook, Eutelsat to provide satellite internet to Africa

16 times the Woolworst Twitter account was totally on point

What does success mean for women in Africa?

Instagram community grows to more than 400m, sharing 80m photos daily

#AskTrump: how The Donald’s Twitter session went catastrophically wrong

A ‘dislike’ button could spell disaster for brands on Facebook

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