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4 WordPress theme design tips for improved conversion rates

Let’s make something clear. We’ll not be talking about trending themes and fads. I won’t tell you whether you should use this color or…

SA publishers join up to create digital co-operative

Like it or not, programmatic advertising is going to play an increasingly large role in the digital publishing landscape. South Africa is not immune…

Stopping the ‘killer robots’: Memeburn interviews AI specialist Toby Walsh

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a topic not many can say they’re experts in, and even fewer actually are. Enter Professor Toby Walsh, a world-renowned…

10 great pieces of business intelligence software

Business intelligence is based on understanding, visualizing and acting based on the data that you already have in your possession. So a good BI…

Google derps, thinks own Google.com domain is dodgy

Here’s a strange story. Google has a little tool for internet users to check the good standing of websites across the web. Its known…

Icon Home Energy Hub, the SA developed energy solution taking on Tesla Powerwall

Move over Tesla and Powerwall, because you’ve got competition in SA. Announced yesterday, Energy Partners unveiled their Icon Home Energy Hub, an all-in-one solution for storing…

7 seriously innovative ways brands are using VR

Aside from games and movies, what else is possible with virtual reality? Well, there are actually quite a few innovative and mind-blowing ways we’re seeing VR…

Samsung profits fall as it gets squeezed at both ends of the market

After blazing its way to the top of the smartphone pile — in sales at least — things have started to turn sour for…

How vocal apps are reaching illiterate populations in emerging markets

Illiteracy has been dramatically decreasing over the 20th century, but there still are large areas of the world where reading and writing skills are…

6 top SCRUM tips for wannabe agilists

It is always delightful to find and work with high performance teams. In one of our recent business endeavors, I met an exceptional web…

Watch this lion effortlessly hunt down a buck with a GoPro strapped to it [video]

We’ve spotted some real amazing thing on GoPro’s. From a stick-up in Somerset West, South Africa to swimming dolphins and people playing saxophone while…

HTML5 gets its final stamp of approval

It’s been a long, hard, winding road for HTML5 but the development language finally has an official stamp of approval. The World Wide Web…

3 very important ways technology is being employed to fight Ebola

Ebola has been causing, especially in West Africa, much heartache and has turned into an epidemic. Apart from Nigeria, the only country that appeared…

7 reasons why online shopping is only going to get more mobile

In recent years, people have more or less gotten adjusted to the idea of technology and all the changes that come along with it….

Tim Cook calls Apple Pay a success with 1 million sign-ups in first 3 days

Just three days after Apple’s new and exciting payment technology Apple Pay launched last week, over 1 million bank cards had already been signed…

3D printer sales to grow ten-fold by 2018

Over the past couple of years, we’ve heard plenty of stories about people making incredible objects using 3D printers. From guns to model asteroids,…

Here’s the video of Google’s VP Alan Eustace skydiving from space

Google vice president Robert Alan Eustace has broken the record for the highest parachute jump in history, smashing through the sound barrier in the…

4 ways wearables will impact on your company’s BYOD policy

James Bond is one of the world’s premier spies, but he’s not doing it alone. At the beginning of every film, he’s provided a…

Your name is a brand — treat it as one online

The digital business landscape has changed tremendously over the last couple of years and personal branding is starting to play a crucial role online….

Things will never be the same: the shifting role of the developer

Today’s competitive business landscape is calling for a shift in the role of the software developer as we currently understand it. Increasingly, businesses are…

IBM to launch mobile health-tracking initiative to track Ebola

By relying on its supercomputers’ brain power, IBM is going on a mission to help track Ebola as well as government-related issues in Sierra…

The Memeburn guide to the SA digital agency landscape

A few years ago, we gave you a pretty quick overview of the South African digital landscape. Much has changed since then. For a…

Samsung Celebrated for Transformative Tech by Consumer Technology Association

GPT 5.2 lands in the API and could reshape how SA builds with AI

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

HONOR’s customer first strategy is reshaping South Africa’s smartphone market

GTA 6 Is Officially Coming in 2026: The New Date, the Delays and the South African Reality Check

The Gaming Gear South Africans Are Actually Buying This December

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel