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Black Coffee will host his own show on Apple’s Beats 1

South Africans are slowly taking over the US entertainment industry. First Trevor Noah’s big gig on The Daily Show, and now Apple’s Beats 1…

Google implements SOS alerts for nearby crises

Google has launched SOS Alert for search that provides information on ongoing emergencies. The SOS Alerts pop up whenever someone searches for the name…

Alphabet shrugs off $2.7bn fine, still makes stacks of money this quarter

Google’s parent company Alphabet isn’t having the smoothest year on record thus far, but that hasn’t stopped it from making even more money this…

LinkedIn Lite joins the lite app bandwagon

We’ve seen quite a few “Lite” versions of popular social networking apps in recent years, now it’s time for LinkedIn to jump on the…

Personalised marketing: Minority Report might not be so farfetched after all

Steven Spielberg’s 2002 science-fiction film Minority Report imagines a world in 2054 where every aspect of life is monitored by personalised digital information, including shopping fueled…

New Google Feed will delve even deeper into your data

Google has taken control of its knowledge of you to personalise its mobile app even further with the launch of the new Google Feed….

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…

4 productivity tools to improve virtual collaboration

Working with a group on an important project can be a frustrating experience, and using tools not suited to that sort of work only…

ONTAPtv.com: what you should know about South Africa’s new à la carte on demand video service

On Wednesday South Africa received a new video on demand (VoD) service in the shape of ONTAPtv.com. This new service, which has packages starting at…

Why Fast Moving Virtual Goods (FMVGs) are fueling informal markets

While there has been much hype around the mobile payment revolution in various informal markets in Africa and elsewhere, the reality is that these…

Majority of Facebook users in Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria connect to small businesses

The majority of Facebook users in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria use the platform to connect with small businesses. This is according to new…

What should we be teaching our kids to equip them for a tech-fueled future?

We are 15 years into the 21st Century: what should we be teaching our children in the 12 years they are in school that…

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