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Customer pays to promote his tweet complaining about British Airways

If you were sick of tweeting your dissatisfaction and receiving no response, how far would you go to get noticed? In the case of…

Check out this clever online Snake game celebrating the Microsoft Nokia deal

If you didn’t buy Microsoft’s multitude of reasons for buying Nokia, don’t worry, you’re not alone. UK based digital agency Webtise has its own…

Microsoft’s Nokia purchase will change the technology landscape and its own future

Microsoft has announced that it intends to buy Nokia’s devices and services business for €5.4-billion. In one fell swoop Microsoft has reshaped the technology…

Context is queen: native, conversational marketing are changing advertising’s UX

The term “user experience” is an increasingly elastic one. It has extended from denoting experiences with single, tangible touchpoints (such as websites), to encompass…

Microsoft set to buy Nokia for €5.4 billion

This is big. Microsoft is set to buy Nokia’s devices and services division for €5.4-billion (US$7.1-billion). The move, confirmed by both parties, will see…

Microsoft explains why it bought Nokia [slides]

So by now you most likely know that Microsoft has bought Nokia’s devices and services division for US$7.17-billion, bringing CEO and former Microsoft man…

Read Ballmer and Elop’s open letter on the Microsoft, Nokia deal

It looks like Steve Ballmer and Stephen Elop anticipated that people might be a little shocked at Microsoft’s decision to buy out Nokia for…

Cellphone and new media — Promised Land?

There is a common lament among online publishers these days, and it goes something like this: If only the internet was invented by a…

Joe Bloggs ‘Journalism’

Everyone’s heard of Joe Bloggs. A few have heard about Salam Pax. So what do the two have in common? They are both ordinary…

Hyperbole no longer

Convergence got a bad rap from the troubled AOL Time Warner merger, but the phenomenon is making steady progress. Matthew Buckland looks at some…

SA’s quiet revolution

Somewhat of a quiet revolution appears to be taking place in South Africa’s media world. Late last year News24 launched their 24-hour interactive news…

Are websites killing newspaper circulations?

Websites are often singled out as one of the main culprits for falling print circulations. Simply put, the argument is why would readers bother…

Mine’s bigger than yours, I think

It’s billed as the most measurable medium in the world, yet ironically, for a long time internet measurement in South Africa has been in…

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