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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…

Is Google’s Project Link the first nail in the African telcos’ coffin?

Google recently announced its first infrastructural project in Africa, called Project Link. This initiative, through the building of a fibre-optic network in Kampala (Uganda),…

Fewer than 25% of Yahoo employees use Mail — hilarious memo ensues

Anyone whose company has forced them to switch email systems will appreciate this. Fewer than 25% of Yahoo employees use the company’s own email…

Epic 8 bit Dr Who doodle may be Google’s most ambitious yet

Dr Who has been thrilling geeks for 50 years now and, by the looks of things, the folks at Google are pretty big fans…

Evade trolls and explore Middle-earth with Google’s new Chrome experiment

The darkness clears, and you realise you’re surrounded. The hulking shapes of the trolls are clearly visible by the moonlight, towering high above you….

Marissa Mayer: Yahoo! is riding the mobile wave to reinvention [DF13]

When Marissa Mayer first walked into Yahoo!, she sat in the cafeteria, meeting the employees and trying to source out the company. According to…

Tencent throws a bone to international users with 10TB worth of free storage

You might recall Chinese internet giant Tencent giving its domestic users 10TB worth of free storage back in August. It was a big deal…

Meet Google Tour Builder, a new way to tell travel stories using Google Earth

Have you ever come back from traveling somewhere and thought that telling stories and posting a few pictures on social media just wouldn’t cut…

Google kills child sex abuse search results, will go global within six months

Google is getting serious about child pornography. Very serious. In an op-ed in the UK’s Daily Mail, Google chairman Eric Schmidt reveals some of…

Jump in a gondola and explore Venice with Google’s new Street View update

Ah, the life of a Googler. First the Street View team was hiking the Grand Canyon, then climbing to the top of the world’s…

The five stages of Google grief: how secure search has the online marketing space in mourning

Approximately two years after Google first clamped down on user privacy and secure search, the change has begun to have severe effects on how…

Want to play with a bit of geek history? Apple II OS now open to public

Retro tech lovers, you have our full permission to geek out after reading this: the operating system that ran the iconic Apple II is…

10 reasons YouTube’s new Google+ comments really are a good thing

If any of you netizens have not heard of this apparently catastrophic news, YouTube comments are now handled by Google+. Yes I know, the…

Google lends disaster relief tools to typhoon stricken Philippines

The massive typhoon that crashed into the Philipines late last week has left untold devastation in its wake. Estimated to be the largest in…

Google’s South African TV white spaces broadband trial is over — and it works

Those balloons may be getting all the attention, but Google’s got other plans to help connect the next billion users to the internet. The…

Giant Microsoft Surface billboard shows Excel counting error

So you know Microsoft Excel? The spreadsheet software millions around the world use to set budgets, build cost estimates and loads of other things…

5 amazing examples of iPhoneography

If you’ve been anywhere near Instagram, you’ve probably seen the hashtag. Android may be dominating the smartphone market, but when it comes to mobile…

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South Africa Sees 77% Surge in Demand for AI Skills

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

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