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Weekly Round Up #50: Alphabet beats Apple, Travelstart’s $40m, Uber’s new logo, smartphone rumours

Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days. This week on BurnCast, Senior…

Google Photos gets collaborative shared albums feature

Google today announced its new Google Photos feature dubbed Shared Albums, which allows users to share their Google Photos with friends and family. The…

Google Calendar gets Reminders, enables tracking to-dos in app

The Google Calendar app, both for Android and iOS, is getting a new Reminders feature. According to Google, this feature will allow users to…

Google Search now allows you to star, bookmark images

Google Search is receiving a new feature. As it matures, it can only get better, and Google appears to be committed to seeing this…

YouTube finally launches offline video feature in South Africa

The world’s largest online video platform boasts over a billion users watching hundreds of millions of hours everyday. Countries with limited data connectivity however…

Google Photos update lets you free up space, downgrade photos

Out of Google’s annual event this year, Google Photos, bundled out of the underwhelming Google+ was an impressive innovation. Over the months since its…

Google to launch hundreds of internet-enabled balloons in 2016

Google’s Project Loon never seizes to impress. Though the initiative started testing about two years ago, the US internet giant’s moonshot of sending internet-beaming…

Google’s privacy policy: ‘This stuff matters’

Google’s new privacy policy is probably pretty old news to you by now. After all, for every search that you do, you get a…

Privacy? Why you should let Google, Facebook and others track you online

Mainstream news (in fact, all news outlets) will have you believe it’s the end of the world. Google’s new privacy policy came into effect…

Microsoft vs Google: 15 areas where they’re competing

Microsoft and Google have a growing battle list which didn’t exist a few years ago. Nowadays, the two titans have more competing products and…

The War on Drugs comes to Google+

It’s time to end the War on Drugs. That’s the motion to be debated in an upcoming live Hangout on Google+. The Hangout is…

Google’s new privacy policy now effective

Google’s new privacy policy went into effect today, despite requests from European regulators asking the search giant to delay. The move by Google to…

Eric Schmidt offers his vision of the future

Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt took the stage at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to talk about the role of technology in the “world…

5 Factors that could be very dangerous to a post-IPO Facebook

As part of the preparations for its looming IPO, Facebook has to disclose in its SEC filing some risk factors which could materially and…

Britney Spears becomes first person to go past 2M Google+ followers

Britney Spears can lay claim to her second Google+ record after becoming the first person to go past the two-million follower mark. Perhaps more…

Your home: The centre of mobile innovation in 2012 [Report]

Your home is where you relax, feel safe, and take five minutes for yourself at the end of a long day. According to research…

Microsoft launches no holds barred attack on Google apps [Video]

Microsoft has abandoned even any hint of civility toward Google in its latest video ad. The campaign, called “Googlighting” mocks the search giant for…

Online censorship is the new black

Online censorship, it would seem, is no longer the preserve of governments bandying around acronyms like SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA. Google and Twitter both…

Google hits back at Microsoft privacy claims

Google has taken the latest swipe at Microsoft in their war of words over user privacy, calling the Redmond-based software giant’s web browser Internet…

Google brings Foursquare-style check-ins to Latitude

Hidden in Google’s most recent update to its Maps for Android app is a new gamified element to its location-based check-in service Latitude which…

Google accused of tracking Safari users’ browsing habits, Microsoft steps in

Think online privacy issues are restricted to iOS apps? Think again. An exposé in The Wall Street Journal suggests that Google and other advertisers…

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