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Sanlam debuts SA’s first WhatsApp drama in novel marketing campaign

We’ve seen social media used extensively as the vehicle for performance art, but what about less image-heavy services like WhatsApp? Arriving via a clever…

South Africa: here’s how to get four free months on Google Play Music

Google Play Music now offers a four-month free trial for those subscribing to its service. The streaming music platform headed by the Mountain View…

Cape Town’s Koeberg nuclear power station to get mini-desalination plant

Cape Town’s nuclear power plant Koeberg is turning to desalination as the drought deepens, Eskom reveals. A column written this week by Koeberg’s power station…

‘Judy’ malware found on Google Play Store puts 36.5m users at risk

Just when you thought that WannaCry would be the last of the big malware attacks to plague 2017, a new breed of nasty has…

Cape Town’s flexible work hours may prompt businesses to move to the cloud

The City of Cape Town’s proposal to introduce flexible hours to combat heavy traffic has cast a spotlight on existing business inefficiencies, and highlighted…

BBM CEO: we can be ‘one of the two’ top chat apps in South Africa

Remember BBM? That once iconic acronym stood for BlackBerry Messenger, one of the world’s most used chat apps. But that legacy has long since…

Zomato hacked, 17m users’ personal data leaked to the dark web

If you frequent the India-based restaurant and food review app Zomato, you should probably change your password immediately. That’s the message conveyed in a…

Technology and connectivity: tipping the balance to save the world’s bees?

As the growing network of smart, connected devices starts to change our world, scientists are increasingly looking to technology for new applications — often…

Microsoft introduces Invite, an easy way to organise meetings on the go

Microsoft reckons scheduling meetings and coordinating multiple schedules on a small screen is a bit of a task and has decided to do something…

Let’s get personal: what you need to know about CEM in ecommerce

The days where it was possible to rule the ecommerce roost by virtue of being the only players in the market are over. In…

The Internet of customers is just getting started

Over the past 15 years, marketers have seen new channels proliferate, customer behaviour change, and old practices become redundant at a dizzying speed –…

How technology has made cycling safer and easier

Cycling technology has improved in leaps and bounds over the past few years. There are an endless number of new individual components and gadgets…

Hisense factory tour: Memeburn finds out how fridges and TVs are made

Memeburn was recently invited on a physical tour of the Hisense factory, situated in Atlantis, Cape Town. It is the only Hisense factory in…

What impact could ad-blocking have for SA’s online publishers?

Apple has included a tool in its latest mobile operating system, iOS9,that will block adverts on iPhones and iPads as a default in its…

5 things you need to know about using comments to build up your blog following

Just about every company or business has a blog, we don’t need to go into detail on why this is important, but we all…

M4JAM now allows brands to do DIY research campaigns

South African microjobbing and research startup M4JAM has announced a new feature that allows brands to conduct their own consumer research. The feature, called…

Less than a week after release, iOS 9 hits a record 50% adoption

According to Apple, iOS 9 is on more than 50% of iOS devices less than a week after launching, making it the fastest adoption…

5 tech conferences you have to attend before 2015 ends

If your work involves technology at all, you know that knowing what’s happening and what’s about to happen is tantamount to your success. From…

The case against non-technical managers

Software development has an image of nerdy people with poor people skills. Whilst luckily not true in most cases, the stereotype probably contributes to…

3 things missing from mobile video app design

The mobile video experience is broken. This sounds like a controversial or provocative thing to say because the mobile video industry is also exploding….

The Apple of Everything, IoT, and Skye Grove: 5 Memeburn articles you loved this week

So it’s Friday and, chances are you’ve probably spent at least some time today wondering what the hell happened to the last four days….

DDoS extortion attacks — a new threat to look out for

It is a testament to the sustained evolution of the cybersecurity landscape that we are still regularly seeing the emergence of new threats. Distributed…

Johnny Walker adds a shot of tech, entrepreneurship to its local ad mix

It’s no small thing when one of the world’s most iconic brands abandons one of the most iconic campaigns of the last few decades…

Elon Musk’s Controversial Salute

HONOR X9c Redefines Rugged Smartphones with Unmatched Durability and Smart AI Features

Will AI Boost or Break South Africa’s Startup Scene?

Temu Survey Reveals Price is King for South Africans

Purple Elephant Ventures Secures $4.5M Seed Round, Setting Record in Kenya’s Tourism-Tech Scene

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

GS3 Emzoom R Style review

Dakar dominated by South African built Hilux Evos

Elkann to create Jeep and Stellantis Meta(morphosis)