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Samsung to buy artificial intelligence startup Viv

This is big. In light of Google Assistant’s move to its new home, Apple’s Siri finding refuge on the iPhone 7 and Microsoft’s Cortana…

Google Pixel is a physical search bar, according to ad

Google doesn’t do subtle any more. Sure, Google Tricks weren’t exactly marks of elegance, nor are the coy names for its Google Pixel smartphones’…

FNB codeFest kicks off in Johannesburg

The annual FNB codeFest is set to kick off from 3 October to 7 October at FNB in Fairlands, Johannesburg. The six-day forum will…

FNB introduces FNB Pay, fingerprint ID support in app

FNB has announced version five of its banking app, with several big features in tow. The first feature is FNB Pay, allowing users to pay…

Yahoo built a program to sift through user emails – report

Ailing internet firm Yahoo apparently built a program last year which sifts through all incoming emails on its service. Yahoo complied with a US…

Rocking The Daisies: Memeburn’s essential app kit

We know the feeling: you’re so amped for Rocking The Daisies that you forget to pack the most important things, like sunscreen, underwear or that…

Spotify introduces adaptable songs for runners, videos and audio clips

Spotify has introduced its coolest feature yet. From now on, runners can listen to music that adapts to the speed of their running. Spotify…

Google’s possible buy button — a local watering hole for retailers and consumers

If I am not onto something by now then I will eat my digital hat. Google, is announcing the creation of a fricken “Buy…

Orange WiFi survey offers insight into township connectivity but underestimates fundamental obstacles

A large number of people are still without internet. There are a couple of reasons for this: first, internet access is expensive. Secondly, it…

Observations about content in 2015: fluidity and self-narrative

This piece is largely referenced by my work and the outcomes of it over the last seven years working in South Africa’s digital advertising…

Billionaires, icons and movie stars — why geek is now chic

We’ve seen the unstoppable rise of the geek over the past few years. From popular culture to big business, the geeks have inherited the…

Tweets will now start showing up in your Google search results

From today, Tweets will start showing up on Google Search on mobile devices. When users are searching on the Google app or any browser…

Worldwide mobile data usage expected to double over the next four years

According to a new research by Juniper Research, data mobile traffic generated by smartphones, featurephones and tablets will double over the next four years,…

Google Chrome unleashes The Great Suspender

Chrome has introduced an extension that sounds like a film title with Denzel Washington and his definitive walk playing the lead. The Great Suspender…

Opera VP Richard Monday tells Memeburn why its mobile browser is still so important for Africa

Before the advent of smartphones, and long before iOS got popular in Africa, Africans were using their mobile devices to browse the web. In…

Taking a ‘partnership approach’ to digital pricing models

In today’s fast moving and digitally-driven world of marketing and communications, it can be difficult for small and medium sized service providers to get…

Netflixification in full force: 330m to subscribe to OTT TV services by 2019

If your idea of watching TV involves the terms “binge-watching” and “Netflix”, and if you’re completely baffled by the sight of ad break, then…

The new extreme rules in marketing

The marketing world increasingly sounds like something out of the world of the security services as the primary conversations are around behavioural profiling, extreme…

The first trailer for Michael Fassbender’s Steve Jobs is out

Universal Studios has finally released the first trailer for its Steve Jobs biopic. The controversy surrounding this film has built as much interest about…

I’m calling it: digital advertising is finally coming of age

Although tablets have become ubiquitous, their potential for engaging consumers in new ways is still being explored. Tablets and tablet advertising offer a new…

Cybercrime: It’s going to cost a lot more by 2019

As we move more of our lives to the digital space, cybercrime becomes more of a threat. This includes the theft of personal data,…

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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

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Elkann to create Jeep and Stellantis Meta(morphosis)