Industry News

Cloud data services: new ways to create value

Cloud data services are growing extremely rapidly as users around the web utilize the cloud to improve internal sharing, data analysis and grow the…

Why Africa’s mobile games should become powerful marketing tools #MWA2015

Even though the opportunities for them are quite vast and numerous, mobile game companies in most parts of Africa are still trying to crack…

BlackBerry acquires WatchDox to bolster enterprise security operations

BlackBerry has always excelled in providing its users with security and encryption capabilities and with this latest acquisition in its bag, the Canadian communications…

Contagious 2015: 5 massive takeaways around why you should be ‘obsessing experience’

A jam-packed room of brand managers, heads of development, insight folks and agency bods came to listen to Contagious 2015. Introduced by Contagious CEO,…

Google now lets you download your entire web search history

Google is letting users to download their entire search history. Though this is virtual data, imagine it tangible, every last thing you have ever…

4 top tips for working with a virtual marketing department

Virtual marketing departments are becoming more commonplace in many businesses today, as the practice saves time, money and produces better results when the work…

Samsung to give SA users free Wi-Fi for a year

If you had any doubts as to Samsung’s desire to stay top of the smartphone pile, check this out. The South Korean electronics giant…

Clay Johnson’s 4 big tips for going on an information diet [SXSW]

One of the speakers at SXSW looking to plant his message firmly within the minds of those at the Interactive portion of the annual…

Here are 5 alternative RSS apps to help you with life after Google Reader

If you’re a feed junkie, you may have suffered a mild panic attack today if you logged into Google Reader and were met with…

11 life lessons from top design blogger Tina Roth Eisenberg [SXSW]

Among the cynicism and complaining that usually accompanies conferences of its size, SXSW manages to deliver a healthy dose of inspiration. Tina Roth Eisenberg…

More wood gets cleared as Google axes Reader, Cloud Connect

Google today announced as second wave of spring-cleaning that will see it consign a number of products to the graveyard including Reader, Google Voice…

Google’s Andy Rubin hands over reins as Android chief

Lots of Google changes this week it seems. In an official blog post, CEO and co-founder Larry Page announced that Andy Rubin, the head…

Think email’s dead when it comes to marketing? Think again

Email marketing can arguably be seen as the great grandfather of internet marketing or at the very least the great grandchild of the knock-and-drop…

The big power shift in media: BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti [SXSW]

As the Interactive portion of SXSW began winding down, BuzzFeed’s CEO and founder Jonah Peretti shared a few of the insights that he and…

Want conference Wi-Fi that isn’t a disaster? Here’s how to get it right

Ever been at a conference and the Wi-Fi doesn’t work? Frustrating, right? Either you really want to check your email when some boring speaker…

A return to honesty: grappling with the future of online porn [SXSW]

Everyone on the internet looks at porn. You do, I do, but more worryingly, so do children of very young ages. Given the unchecked…

This leaked video suggests Google Now is headed to your iDevice soon

Do you keep hearing about Google’s intelligent personal assistant app and sighing in frustration because you don’t own an Android running JellyBean? Well, it…

New Google X Lab ‘moonshot’ to be revealed next month

Google is set to unveil a new “moonshot” project from its X Lab division next month, although the only thing we know about it…

Big Data loses its hipster shackles, is set to go mainstream

The term Big Data has been thrown around pretty willfully over the past couple of years. It makes sense too, after all, petabytes of…

Naspers buys 18% stake in Russian classifieds giant Avito

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em and um… buy a large chunk of ’em just to be on the safe side. That seems…

Five tips for making it big in the digital economy

So many organisations are missing the trick completely in the online space because they are incapable of ridding themselves of dated marketing behaviour of…

Shaquille O’Neal: basketball legend, author, über geek [SXSW]

Shaquille O’Neal is many things — former basketball champ, actor, reality TV star, author — but a tech geek? Turns out he considers himself…

MTN Expands Its Digital Education Push As South Africa Opens The 2026 School Year

CES 2026 Signals A New Era For Portable Gaming Power

CES 2026 From Flashy Demos To Practical Breakthroughs

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