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Facebook Africa office officially opens its doors

Facebook has officially opened its Africa office in Johannesburg, six months after Memeburn first reported it would be doing so. Based in Melrose Arch,…

5 tips for boosting SharePoint hybrid adoption with analytics

Your organization has implemented SharePoint, or perhaps a hybrid version including deployments across various environments. But, are you well equipped to thoroughly monitor your…

What is click fraud and how can you prevent it?

With the rise of programmatic buying in South Africa, the click fraud threat has been raised by publishers and advertisers alike. While click fraud…

Could Ruby on Rails be a godsend for manufacturing?

Optimizing processes using technology is common across business segments, and in manufacturing, this becomes important to ensure the full potential of a production set-up….

16 trends and predictions around South African internet usage

By 2019, there will be 27-million South African Internet users, up from 15-million in 2014. That’s according to the latest Cisco Visual Networking Index…

Lessons from adland legend Keith Reinhard [Cannes Lions]

This week I have been at the Cannes Lions festival of creativity. It’s the largest global gathering of its kind and all the who’s…

Microsoft officially launches Office for Android

Microsoft has announced that Office, PowerPoint and Excel are finally available for Android devices. These apps are not the first Microsoft apps to come…

Is Silicon Valley ageist? The young average age of its workers suggests so

Quentin Hardy on the New York Times Bits column, reports that a survey of tech companies by Payscale, shows a very young median age…

Meet ‘Coffee Town’, College Humor’s bizarre latest feature length film

It seems College Humor is trying its hand something more than just quirky shorts for the internet. The site is releasing a feature-length comedy…

Homepage takeovers are wildly inefficient: here’s why

Earlier this year, Digiday revealed how much brands are paying to take over the homepage of major sites across the web, and the results…

The end of Moore’s law: Q&A with POET technologies’ Peter Copetti

In the third and final installment on the Moore’s Law series, Graeme Lipschitz sits down with POET technologies executive, Peter Copetti, to discuss their…

Samsung set for record Q2 but likely to miss analyst predictions

It might have the lion’s share of the global smartphone market, and it may be about to announce record profits for Q2, but some…

We’ve come a long way baby: the evolution of listening

Check this out. It’s an image comparing the advancement of music technology to human evolution. Tweeted out by live music video site OurVinyl, the…

Doug Engelbart: how Silicon Valley sidelined a true genius

Tributes to the genius of computer pioneer Doug Engelbart are flooding the web following the announcement of his death at the age of 88….

Death by email: how we broke our inboxes [part one]

This two-part post is about email. In part one, Jon Sumroy looks at why email is broken and how this affects us. In part…

7 major factors holding back Asia’s tech ecosystems

Despite the strength and diversity of Asia’s tech ecosystems, there are a lot of problems and peculiarities that hold back these countries’ web industries…

Contextual advertising: the ins, outs and where it’s heading to next

We have all been hit by contextual advertising. Whether we have acted on it or not is another question; but it has definitely impacted…

Google Reader officially says adios

Google Reader is dead. Done and dusted. The internet giant has put yet another of its services, ala Wave, to bed, but at least…

Ywiki? Yahoo! bought Qwiki, surprise surprise

Guess what? As was reported by AllthingsD and us, Yahoo! has doled out US$50-million for video maker Qwiki. The deal was announced on Yahoo!…

Beauty and startups: Yahoo!’s desperate trek back from irrelevance

Back in the 90s, the name Yahoo! was synonymous with the web and possibly all things internet-related. It was a shining example of what…

Why the idea of online ventures ‘democratising education’ is total BS

There’s a revolution in education taking place, many people have told me about the excellent education people can get through online courses, many of…

MTN Clinches SA’s Best Network Title Again – Backed by Data and R14bn Infrastructure Push

Xiaomi’s “Screens for Change” Powers Township Esports With Purpose and Mandela’s Legacy

SAVCA 2025 Industry Awards Spotlight Africa’s Most Ambitious Private Capital-Backed Innovators

Ecentric and MoneyBadger Partner to Bring Bitcoin Payments to South African Retailers

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel

The most recognisable tactical pickup truck evolves