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TCL South Africa Unveils 2025 Mini LED TV Range with Wide Viewing Angles

TCL Electronics has officially launched its 2025 range of Mini LED TVs in South Africa, introducing cutting-edge display technology, massive screen sizes, and cinematic…

RIP Skype Microsoft Pulls the Plug on a Digital Pioneer

Skype isn’t disappearing with a bang — or even with its iconic ringtone. Instead, the platform that once defined internet calling is quietly being…

SITA pushes back as Home Affairs eyes IT exit

South Africa’s State Information Technology Agency (SITA) is pushing back against the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) following media reports that the department wants…

EmpowaEntrepreneurs 2025 Targets Africa’s High-Growth Founders and Investors

South Africa is set to host one of the continent’s most anticipated gatherings for entrepreneurs and investors — the EmpowaEntrepreneurs Funding Summit, taking place…

French No-Code Pioneer Tinkso Secures Strategic Investment from SA Entrepreneur Henk Pretorius

French no-code development agency Tinkso has sold a majority stake to South African tech entrepreneur and investor Henk Pretorius, marking a major milestone in…

IBM Think 2025: Enterprise Gen AI Moves Beyond the Hype

IBM used its annual Think conference on Monday to introduce new generative AI features designed to help large enterprises overcome the practical challenges of…

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…

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Microsoft today announced the general availability of the all-new Surface Pro and the all-new Surface Laptop to empower users in South Africa to unlock…

Slate Truck is an outrageously sensible pickup

Slate promises to revolutionize the pickup truck market with its new single cab BEV. With backing from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, the Michigan company has…

Red Bull wings for Lucid – not Tesla

Red Bull is the standard for performance marketing. The Austro-Thai energy drinks company is a dominant presence in power sports, including its winning F1…

Gravity is a true driver’s EV SUV

Gravity. Immutable but never misunderstood. And there’s no misunderstanding the product mission with Lucid’s three-row luxury SUV either: it’s literally a moment of Gravity…

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Online media, platforms, innovation and advertising

Just did this interview with a publication. Thought I’d publish it here. Does a newspaper’s online platform cannabalise the print advertising at all? And…

It’s about branding, stupid

Online advertising is not only about clicks, leads and acquisitions… branding is important too. There are a number of competing online advertising models on the net. By far the most dominant one used by online publishers is the Cost-per-Thousand (CPM) model. CPM is the closest online advertising gets to advertising in traditional media. The advertiser pays in advance to place an advert that will be displayed to the website’s readership base, which should generate return on investment. Through the campaign there will be branding for the advertiser, click-throughs on the advert, leads and hopefully acquisition of the product. Everyone’s happy?

Battle of the business sites

Websites that report on financial news and information were always going to crack it online. The web is the perfect medium for delivering up-to-the-minute financial news and data. Moreover, the LSM of the average business news reader matches that of the online reader: Both are high. The five biggest consumer-focused business sites, reporting on general financial news in South Africa, are engaged in a tussle to capture a bigger share of this lucrative reader and advertising market….

Roll on broadband

from my column in the media, called net savvy If a survey by search engine Google is to be believed, the British apparently now…

Web 2.0 a Poo Sandwich?

net savvy Web 2.0 a Poo Sandwich? Some say “Web 2.0” is just the latest meaningless buzzword in a long list of internet hyperbole….