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Baidu reports 270m active Android users in China

If anyone is in the position to know what Chinese netizens get up to online, it’s Baidu, the nation’s top search engine. Baidu’s newest…

6 big numbers to come out of Naspers’ latest set of results

Over the past decade or so, Naspers has gone from being a reasonably large media and publishing outfit to being an emerging markets internet…

4 components to succeeding in a digital world: data and the Internet of Things [part three and four]

The world we live in is vastly different to what it was just a couple of years ago. There can be no doubting that…

What PandoDaily’s NSFW merger tells about the state of tech reporting

Tech news site PandoDaily is merging with NSFW, a magazine based in Las Vegas, in a bid to “double down on investigative reporting.” The…

5 massive tech trends that will drive business in 2014

A few decades ago there were reasonably sized businesses that didn’t have a single computer and if they needed something big calculated they paid…

Mobile usage and apps in South Africa: the numbers you need to know

Sitting in your iOS 7 cocoon and assume everyone has an iPad? Or that SMS died out with the arrival of BBM? Perhaps you’re…

Dial Direct pays homage to Buzzfeed with designated driver site

This is pretty clever. Insurance company Dial Direct has created a Buzzfeed-style site to promote its new designated driver product. The site, which has…

Seven major mobile trends you should be aware of

Mobile phones are changing the face of communication and marketing in emerging markets around the world, and the implications are profound. The environment is…

Who is the most powerful editor in the world?

Mediaite.com is an online and print analysis site which is exhaustively documenting the relative influence and power of the top-ranking editors in the world….

10 tips for creating effective online ad copy

There is a mind-boggling array of different online platforms for getting your marketing message across: From classic display banners through to text-based advertorials, tweets,…

Clothing giant Gap feels social media heat, scraps new logo

In another clear sign that the social media masses are exerting tremendous influence over corporates, American clothing giant, Gap, decided to scrap its new…

Influence: The new currency of Web 3.0

We recently dipped our toes into Influence and the Social Web and it’s very interesting to see how deep this rabbit hole goes. The…

Five questions to answer before selecting a broadband package

Most South African internet users are making far more modest use of the internet than they think, and many are buying packages that are…

Google test drives automated cars of the future

An electronic brain devised by US internet titan Google has driven cars nearly a quarter of a million kilometres in California, on a quest…

ScribbleLive: Live media technologies for real-time newsrooms

I recently met with Michael de Monte, CEO of Scribble Technologies, based in Toronto, Canada. The company offers a very interesting media technology called…

D-Day as Microsoft unveils its flagship smartphone

Exactly one month ago, the employees at Microsoft’s Redmond HQ threw a funeral procession cum party celebrating the demise of the iPhone and the…

Going Android? Start with these eight apps

Everyone at my office got iPhones last year, but I didn’t really think the screen would last in my pocket next to my keys…

Obox Design unveils a WordPress mobile theme framework

South African WordPress theme company, Obox Design, has recently made some significant developments in the area of theming for mobile devices. “Obox Mobile” is…

Cell C to MTN and Vodacom: ‘Stop bullying us!’

Cell C said via Facebook on Thursday that it intends to lodge an appeal with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) against Wednesday’s ruling over…

22 black SA bloggers you should be reading

The South African blogosphere has in the past copped its share of criticism for being rather male, and rather pale. In recent years, there…

Google testing ‘Baraza’, an African Q&A site

There’s a new service coming out from Google, tentatively called “Baraza”, which is the term used for meeting place in Swahili. It’s a service…

The speed of Google or the stickiness of Facebook?

Google’s most important launch this year was its recent debut of Google Instant search which cuts user search time down by as much as…

High End Devices Unlock Superior Mobile Experiences in South Africa

South Africa Sees 77% Surge in Demand for AI Skills

Samsung Launches the Galaxy A07 Built for Every Challenge

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

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

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel