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News24 to close down comments section because of ‘hate speech’

Today, popular South African news website News24 announced its closure of their comments system because of “hate speech.” The announcement came in the form…

Weekly Round Up #31: Alphabet, Bic’s fail, Naspers’ Netflix, M4JAM buys Pondering Panda

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

Here’s why you shouldn’t treat Naspers’ numbers as evidence of a tech bubble

One of the most followed stories and right in the heart of the debate around tech bubbles and valuations (especially in the emerging markets…

Life after Koos Bekker: where to next for Naspers?

There’s a quote from outgoing Naspers chief executive Koos Bekker buried right at the end of Sunday’s City Press article that tells you an…

Naspers’ Bekker steps down as company shifts ecommerce strategy

Naspers CEO Koos Bekker is stepping down, the emerging markets media and internet giant today revealed. In an official press release posted to the…

Tencent slide sees Naspers stock take 7% hit

Media and technology giant Naspers’ stocks fell sharply today on the back Chinese internet company Tencent taking a beating on the Hong Kong Stock…

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…

Naspers shutters Indian online classifieds in OLX consolidation move

Naspers has dumped its Indian classifieds platform TradusAds in favour of the internationally renowned OLX, the world’s largest free classified site with over 130…

OLX launches iPad app

Online classified sites are big business these days. There’s a reason have been accused of killing the newspaper industry. Now one of the biggest…

Emerging markets are killing when it comes to mobile social networks

Instagram’s a pretty big mobile social network. A user base now sitting somewhere north of the 30-million mark is nothing to be sneezed at….

MIH launches new online shop creator on WordPress

This has the potential to be big. It’s a new eCommerce tool that allows users to “create an online shop in minutes”. The new…

Tencent set to expand into search, other markets

Chinese internet giant Tencent is already a dominant player in the online space. It owns a number of chat properties, microblogging sites, social networks,…

Google Kenya head claims she ‘decided to leave’ in wake of Mocality scandal

After initial reports that she had been fired, Google’s Kenya head Olga Arara-Kimani now claims she left the internet-giant of her own accord. Kenyan…

Russian answer to Twitter sees phenomenal early growth

Russia’s answer to Twitter is reportedly attracting users in their thousands. Owned by the Mail.ru group, Futubura attracted some 17 000 users within 24…

MIH kills group-buying site Dealify

Another day, and another Groupon clone bites the dust. After a whirlwind gold-rush to emulate the incredible success of Groupon, there has been nothing…

Retrenchments announced at News24, SA’s largest online publisher

Africa’s largest online publisher, 24.com, which publishes news site News24, has announced a “restructure” that will result in staff retrenchments. The online publisher, owned…

Losing $80-million without blinking: Koos Bekker’s Memeburn Q&A

Naspers is an oddity. Who would have bet that a one-time newspaper company would have become an emerging-market internet giant? After all “Naspers” means…

Naspers snaps up eastern European classified site Slando from eBay

Emerging markets internet giant, Naspers has bought eastern European classified website Slando. Slando is the creation of Michael Pennington and Simon Crookall, who also…

Exclusive: Alan Knott-Craig buys MXit, Herman Heunis steps down

A few weeks ago Memeburn revealed that instant messaging platform MXit was rumoured to be in sale talks with startup investment firm World of…

5 Cool African eCommerce websites

There was a time when Africa’s eCommerce platforms were so few in number as to be negligible. The ever increasing penetration of bandwidth onto…

Ex Naspers exec talks emerging markets and entrepreneurship

Former Naspers executive Kim Reid is the man behind Takealot. This South African online retail site is looking to gain significant market share in…

MXit in talks to sell stake to local investors [Rumour]

Rumours are circulating around the industry that the popular instant messaging application and mobile social network, MXit, is about to be sold to new…

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