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Motorola and Swarovski Bring Foldable Luxury to South Africa with the Brilliant Collection

A fusion of technology and luxury Motorola Mobility has officially unveiled the Motorola Brilliant Collection by Swarovski®, a limited edition collaboration that blends cutting-edge…

Sanlam Fintech Expands Its AI Coach to Tackle South Africa’s Medical Access Gap

AI meets healthcare in a first for South African fintech Sanlam Fintech is broadening its reach beyond money management with an upgrade to its…

OPPO A6 Pro 5G launches in South Africa with bigger battery and tougher build

Built for South African lifestyles OPPO has officially launched the A6 Pro 5G in South Africa, bringing a combination of power, durability, and sleek…

Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

Innovate47, the global venture builder and entrepreneur support organisation, has launched a new Food & Agri Accelerator to help founders reshape food systems and…

Simbi Wabote’s 10-Year Roadmap: How Nigeria Achieved 54% Local Content Growth

When Simbi Wabote assumed leadership of Nigeria’s Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) in 2016, he inherited an oil industry where local participation had…

Records Tumble In Best Year Yet For South Africa’s Hedge Fund Industry

South Africa’s hedge fund industry closed out 2024 with its strongest performance to date, according to the latest Novare Hedge Fund Survey. Assets under…

Instagram Finally Comes to iPad with a Big Screen Experience

A Long Awaited Release It is official. Instagram has launched a dedicated iPad app, answering years of requests from users who wanted a big…

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

Acer is raising the bar for gaming and content creation with the launch of its latest Predator BiFrost and Nitro graphics cards, now powered…

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

Game On, Reality Off: Philips Evnia Unleashes QD OLED Mayhem Let’s cut to the chase: Philips Evnia just nuked the gaming monitor scene. The…

Omoda C5 X review

Omoda is one of Chery’s sub-brands in the South African market, combining daring design with an abundance of in-cabin digitisation. Its mid-size crossovers are…

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

TDK has responded to developing market needs with a new range of advanced inertial measurement units (IMU) for automotive applications. The Japanese electronics giant…

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel

Data centres will command power equivalent to the entire Japanese power grid by 2030. It’s a startling prediction and one that infrastructure futurists, data…

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Facebook: Fifth most populous ‘nation’ in Asia [Infographic]

Facebook has seen phenomenal growth in the last two years. With more than 500-million users the social network has half the population of Africa’s…

The sleeping giant of Asian mobile internet

The latest statistics from the Mobithinking’s Mobile Guide to Japan have entranced the West’s mobile providers who are keen to advantage on the massive…

Google joins fray to fight global internet censorship

Via an AP story on Wired.com Google, which hasn’t in the past got too involved in government affairs and advocacy issues, is now joining…

Citizen journalism, let's keep our heads shall we?

Did this interview with Herman Manson of Media Toolbox a popular media newsletter. Here are the questions:

To what extent is the M&G planning to make use of citizen/participatory journalism?
What are people writing about on your blogging service and how does this influence the content of your website and the paper edition?
Do you think participatory journalism will grow beyond community newspapers (for which it does seem perfect) to national news organisations locally? Internationally the BBC recently announced a move to integrate more citizen generated content into its services.

My answers over the page

Revenge of the amateurs

Now South Africa has its own citizen journalism offering via Johnnic’s commendable reporter.co.za One of the first images of the Asian Tsunami crisis came…

The power of information

People are still asking today how it was that the world failed to mobilise during the Rwanda genocide. Nearly a million Africans were hacked…