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YouTube’s VP9 codec has enabled users to watch 25bn hours of faster, better, buffer-free videos

YouTube has revealed that video buffering is no longer a thing. Thanks to the VP9 video codec, which is the default codec for YouTube’s…

Twitter is listening: data mining, Gnip and the fabled ‘firehose’

Twitter is currently making a ton of money by selling access to your tweets. Now you might be wondering “Why would someone pay to…

10 famous novels transformed into tweets

Way, way back before the internet was invented, there was a crude and ancient way that people used to share information on a primitive…

3 key reasons Facebook won’t be releasing a phone any time soon

Analysts do what analysts do, they analyse and project but mostly speculate, and before you point out that that’s obvious, let me highlight all…

Alan Knott-Craig Jr: How I nearly missed out on buying Mxit

In the first of a series of extracts from the opening chapter of his new book “Mobinomics”, South African-based entrepreneur Alan Knott Craig Jr…

Facebook fundamentals: Why its share collapse simply does not matter

Facebook’s share collapse has the social network’s strongest critics buzzing, some even going as far as questioning the future of the platform. Are we…

Facebook IPO drama: conspiracy or mispricing?

Everyone is suing everyone. Everyone is upset with everyone. Everyone is blaming everyone. Get over it. It’s history. The biggest IPO since Google has…

7 things you might not know about YouTube

There’s a few things most of us know about YouTube. It’s fairly common knowledge for instance turned seven this year and that it’s the…

Want your social media campaign to be a success? Do your research

There are thousands of social media channels available to us all. From blogging to Facebook, all of these channels are not created equally and for…

Facebook IPO: The ‘smart money’ really got burned

There’s a lot of anger around Facebook’s botched IPO, but much of that is from the “smart money” that wasn’t able to convince retail…

‘The Spear’: Tweet that ‘broke’ City Press editor’s back is fake

The latest news in the ongoing ‘Spear of the Nation’ saga is that the tweet which made City Press editor Ferial Haffajee decide to…

From UseNet to Google+: A brief history of social networking

While Facebook shares seem as volatile as anything, one is left questioning how valuable social networking really is. As the poet and philosopher George…

Is secondary market trading to blame for Facebook’s IPO jitters?

There are thousands of articles dissecting the reasons why things went bad for Facebook yet none have mentioned the role of secondary markets. In…

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Honor Magic V3 launches, four things to know

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YouTube’s VP9 codec has enabled users to watch 25bn hours of faster, better, buffer-free videos

Twitter is listening: data mining, Gnip and the fabled ‘firehose’

10 famous novels transformed into tweets

3 key reasons Facebook won’t be releasing a phone any time soon

Alan Knott-Craig Jr: How I nearly missed out on buying Mxit

Facebook fundamentals: Why its share collapse simply does not matter

Facebook IPO drama: conspiracy or mispricing?

7 things you might not know about YouTube

Facebook IPO: The ‘smart money’ really got burned

‘The Spear’: Tweet that ‘broke’ City Press editor’s back is fake

Is secondary market trading to blame for Facebook’s IPO jitters?

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