Big Tech

Apple launches a Netflix rival, news subscription service and a credit card

Apple on Monday debuted a number of new subscription-based services, including Apple TV+, Apple News+, and Apple Card. Apple TV+ Apple TV+ is a…

‘Killed by Google’ is a digital graveyard remembering the company’s slain products

Google is well known for launching promising apps, hardware, and services and burying them just as they gain loyal, loving users. Take Google Inbox…

New Google Maps feature let some users add public events

Android Police has spotted a new feature coming on Google Maps that lets users add public events to the platform. It means that Maps…

Google is testing ‘visual ads’ in Google Images

Google is putting shoppable ads in Google Images. This means that you will soon see images of items you can click on and buy,…

Google updates ‘Offers’ for Business Profiles

Google has revealed a new update for its Offers feature for Business Profiles to help businesses and customers find deals faster. “We’re making offers…

Google updates its mobile tools for businesses

Google has revealed two new updates for its online business tools, Test My Site and RCS Business Messaging. “Because mobile is where most people…

Google uses 700 trillion pixels to update Maps, Earth

We often take Google Maps and Google Earth for granted, but the Mountain View company has updated its cloud-free mosaic with some wonderfully sharp images this…

User takes Microsoft to court over Windows 10 upgrade, wins $10 000

Scores of people have been complaining about the questionable ways Microsoft imposes Windows 10 on them. Now, one woman has won a court battle…

Confirmed: Tencent acquires majority stake in Supercell

Tencent has acquired a majority stake in Supercell, creator of the popular Clash of Clans mobile title, in a deal valuing the studio at…

iPhone 6 ruled as a rip-off of Chinese phone by Beijing patent authority

Looking back, Apple probably wouldn’t mark 2016 as a good year. After it was embroiled in a battle with the FBI in early 2016,…

Paid search in the App Store could see a major shift in app campaign strategies

Apple’s announcement that it would be introducing paid search to its App Store did not completely take the market by surprise. There are however,…

Google Play Music gets contextually active with Concierge in SA

Google Play Music has officially launched its Concierge service in South Africa, bringing automatically generated, contextual playlists to the country. Play Music subscribers will…

Microsoft’s new Windows 10 upgrade popup is pretty damn sneaky

It takes a brave human to market an operating system to its legion of potential users, and when Microsoft set its arbitrary billion devices…

Microsoft cuts 1850 jobs in mobile unit, takes $950m hit

Microsoft’s mobile division has endured a torrid time in recent years, seeing lay-offs, mergers and spin-offs. Unfortunately, the company has announced another round of…

Google Maps ups ad game to help businesses capture mobile users

Google is about to get a lot more evil especially if you hold an absolute hatred for advertisements. Google Maps is getting a slew…

Can machines create art? Google-powered Magenta project aims to find out

Can machines (you know, those dead hunks of nuts and bolts) actively produce what humans consider art using nothing but mathematics? This is the…

Google Hangouts won’t be culled, will remain ‘a standalone product’ – report

In case you went to bed early last night, Google kicked off its I/O conference with a slew of new announcements, including two more…

Google Chrome wants to block Flash Player by year-end

Adobe’s Flash Player, a plugin that has previously allowed millions of users to enjoy games and video content online, is slowly dying a well-deserved…

Here’s why Apple spent $1-billion on Chinese cab service Didi

Apple has made headlines this morning after it announced a US$1-billion investment in smart cab service Didi. The investment thus pits Apple directly against current cab…

Apple vs. Google: enter the mobile machine learning race

The competition between the biggest tech companies in the world is no doubt an intense one. Just take the heated battles over cloud computing…

Sunrise will die on 31 August, team relocates to Microsoft Outlook

Sunrise, the calendaring app that was bought by Microsoft in 2015, now has its execution date. The company took to its blog to say…

Google wants women to also be professionally represented with emojis

Google’s on a mission to makes emojis more inclusive, and that starts with a new set of proposed Unicode emojis representing women in the…

TCL South Africa Unveils 2025 Mini LED TV Range with Wide Viewing Angles

RIP Skype Microsoft Pulls the Plug on a Digital Pioneer

SITA pushes back as Home Affairs eyes IT exit

EmpowaEntrepreneurs 2025 Targets Africa’s High-Growth Founders and Investors

French No-Code Pioneer Tinkso Secures Strategic Investment from SA Entrepreneur Henk Pretorius

IBM Think 2025: Enterprise Gen AI Moves Beyond the Hype

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

Slate Truck is an outrageously sensible pickup

Red Bull wings for Lucid – not Tesla

Gravity is a true driver’s EV SUV