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Mirror mirror on the wall: eBay to put interactive mirrors in fitting rooms

eBay wants to reach the brick and mortar world, and it is doing so with the flair that is to be expected of a…

Integration: marketing’s new holy grail

Technology has changed marketing. Forever. The scale, scope and sheer onslaught of the technology that marketers need to work with and understand have exploded….

Want to make real-time communication a reality? Then you need proper integration

With the explosion and exponential growth of marketing technology, businesses are spending billions to acquire the tools and capabilities to better connect with and…

Game over for the firewall? Far from it

Was your business online 20 years ago? Probably not: very few businesses were. After all, the web was still in its infancy, and the…

Apple market value hits $700bn

Apple is on an infinite rise, it seems. A rise in Apple shares on Tuesday pushed the market value of the company above US$700-billion,…

Tech brands triumph in the latest 2014 Brand Africa 100 rankings

Brand Africa has announced the 2014 Brand Africa 100, a ranking of the most admired and most valuable brands in sub-sahara Africa. Established in…

You have only yourself to blame for bad SEO content

There are two schools of thought surrounding SEO (Search Engine Optimised) copy. The first is that it can simply be generated with fridge poetry…

Is Apple really the most valuable company ever?

Go to any tech aggregator right now and you’ll see headlines loudly proclaiming Apple to be the most valuable publicly traded company ever. The…

SMS to drive mobile messaging ad revenue past $7.14bn by 2017

Think mobile messaging services like Whatsapp are killing SMS? Think again. In fact, the use of location-based SMSes to deliver relevant ads will see…

If content is king, can $1 buy you royalty?

Content is King. There’s no doubt that great content brings all the users to the proverbial yard, but at what cost? And to whom?…

Social’s great, but without search you’re up the creek

This is not another social media article. This is however an article that talks about how and where search and social need to find…

Art in the age of digital reproduction: liberating or cheapening?

Walter Benjamin famously wrote in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction that “even the most perfect reproduction of a work…

75 examples of people doing great things with mobile

We live in a mobile world. Our smartphones and tablets have become surrogate limbs, ushering in the post-PC era. A part of that is…

Google Fiber: still exciting after all the hype

With speeds 100 times faster than the average American connection, the option of free internet or a full media service, Google Fiber is an…

Top international ad man heads speaker line up at IMC Joburg

Nowadays, everyone’s trying to sell something, even if it’s only ourselves. That also means we all fall into that dirtiest of categories “marketer”. Very…

Mobile payments to be worth $1.3tn by 2017

You many have noticed a fair few players trying to get in the mobile money game recently. There’s a very good reason for that….

Could AR drones be the future of journalism?

We’ve all read stories about how remote control drones have been used in war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Some of us may even know…

Android still killing it in shrinking mobile market, but at what cost?

Android is killing in the mobile OS wars. Even as the global mobile market shrinks, there’s no getting around the fact that it’s far…

Outlook.com hits 10M users… like a boss

Well now, it seems Microsoft may actually have a hit on its hands with its new online email service Outlook.com. Just two weeks after…

Google+ to let you get your vanity URL on in the near future

Oh look, a new feature on Google+ that its users will actually appreciate. Google today announced that it will start rolling out vanity URLs…

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

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