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Your pocket guide to the 2017 Streamy Award winners

The 2017 Streamy Awards last night honoured YouTube’s best and brightest — but if you’re feeling out of the loop, here’s a quick guide…

Twitter is doubling the length of tweets to 280 characters

Twitter’s 140-character limit may soon be a thing of the past. The microblogging network announced plans to extend its arbitrary but now-familiar 140-character limit…

Twitter won’t bar Donald Trump from tweeting because of ‘newsworthiness’

According to Twitter’s Public Policy account, the social network will not be removing US President Donald Trump’s threatening tweets towards North Korea. In a…

WhatsApp now completely blocked in China

China is now blocking WhatsApp in its entirety, according to a report by The New York Times. The Facebook-owned messaging service was earlier this…

Kim Jong Un and ‘dotard’ Trump get the internet excited about words again

US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un may be engaged in a game of nuclear table tennis, but at…

Instagram ‘advertises’ itself on Facebook with rape threats

Instagram has come under fire for advertising itself on parent company Facebook’s platform with a screenshot of an email that read “I will rape…

Instagram gives you a new way to embarrass yourself in live video

Instagram will soon allow users to apply awkward Face Filters to their live video broadcasts. “Starting today, you can play with face filters while…

Here’s how Facebook can help you achieve your business goals

The need for an effective social media strategy cannot be emphasised enough. Social media is becoming a vital component in any business supporting other…

Twitter launches two new features, more for commerce than user experience

Twitter has been doing a lot lately and its latest move involves testing two new features. One of the features is product and place…

Your Twitter feed will start autoplaying videos in the near future

Your Twitter timeline is about to hog a lot more data. The social network is rolling out video autoplay as a standard feature. First…

Google takes on Twitch with YouTube Gaming

Despite the fact that gaming’s had dedicated TV channels in some Asian countries for years now, it took the advent of Twitch.tv for live-streams…

Life after Dick: Twitter needs to ignore Wall Street, concentrate on users

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has resigned after five years on the job. Twitter’s subscriber growth has slowed, the company recorded subscriber growth of 18…

Sonic the Hedgehog’s Twitter account is brilliant at converting trolls into followers

By now we know that a good online presence can do a lot for a brand. It doesn’t matter if it’s two decades old…

Instagram opens feed to businesses to increase revenues

Instagram has expanded its ad product offering as it looks become a financially viable entity. The Facebook-owned company announced on its blog that it…

Facebook takes on Pinterest’s buyable pins, expands beta test for ‘buy’ button on Shopify

Today, Facebook announced that it is inviting Shopify merchants to a beta test of its ‘buy’ feature. The feature allows users to buy things…

Facebook drops $1bn internet satellite plan

Facebook’s plan of building an Internet Satellite connection for parts of the world has fallen. According to a report from The Information, project was…

Latest Twitter update makes it easier to follow conversations

Twitter is huge. There is no two ways about it and now in 2015, it has been said that a fifth of internet users…

MTN MoMo’s R10-a-Day Smartphone Offer Aims to Bridge South Africa’s Digital Divide

Acer Rolls Out Student-Focused Tech in South Africa Ahead of New Term

South African Businesses Face Growing Legal Risks as AI Adoption Soars

Cape Town VC firm HAVAÍC secures $25m second close to power next wave of African tech startups

Binance Pay Unlocks Everyday Crypto Spending in South Africa

Memecoins Outperform All Crypto in 2025 But South Africans Should Tread Carefully

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

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel

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Your pocket guide to the 2017 Streamy Award winners

Twitter is doubling the length of tweets to 280 characters

Twitter won’t bar Donald Trump from tweeting because of ‘newsworthiness’

WhatsApp now completely blocked in China

Kim Jong Un and ‘dotard’ Trump get the internet excited about words again

Instagram ‘advertises’ itself on Facebook with rape threats

Instagram gives you a new way to embarrass yourself in live video

Here’s how Facebook can help you achieve your business goals

Twitter launches two new features, more for commerce than user experience

Your Twitter feed will start autoplaying videos in the near future

Google takes on Twitch with YouTube Gaming

Life after Dick: Twitter needs to ignore Wall Street, concentrate on users

Sonic the Hedgehog’s Twitter account is brilliant at converting trolls into followers

Instagram opens feed to businesses to increase revenues

Facebook takes on Pinterest’s buyable pins, expands beta test for ‘buy’ button on Shopify

Facebook drops $1bn internet satellite plan

Latest Twitter update makes it easier to follow conversations

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