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HONOR X9c Redefines Rugged Smartphones with Unmatched Durability and Smart AI Features

HONOR has been making waves in the smartphone industry with its innovative approach to durability and functionality. In 2025, the company continues to build…

South Africans Embrace AI: 71% Excited About Future Impact, New Survey Reveals

South Africa’s online population is showing increasing enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI) as the technology continues to expand globally. According to a new survey…

Temu Survey Reveals Price is King for South Africans

Just one year after its launch in South Africa, Temu has become a major player in the country’s e-commerce landscape, reshaping how South Africans…

Purple Elephant Ventures Secures $4.5M Seed Round, Setting Record in Kenya’s Tourism-Tech Scene

In a groundbreaking move for African travel technology, Purple Elephant Ventures (PEV), a Nairobi-based venture studio, has raised $4.5 million in seed financing. This…

Conservio raises $1M to expand sustainable travel

Conservio, the go-to platform for travellers looking to escape into nature, has just landed $1 million in funding to expand its footprint. The investment,…

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…

Honor Magic V3 launches, four things to know

Honor introduced its latest foldable device, the Honor Magic V3, at IFA in Berlin. It is expected to be available in the South African…

Honor Magic V3, a Guinness world record attempt

Guinness World Record holder Bryan Berg, alongside Honor, will attempt to build the tallest house of cards in eight hours without using any glue….

GS3 Emzoom R Style review

GS3 Emzoom. It is another of the new Chinese models that continue to add diversity fo choice for local buyers, in a market where…

Dakar dominated by South African built Hilux Evos

Dakar is the world’s most demanding off-road race. And if you sell vehicles with an all-terrain marketing subtext, a Dakar win is invaluable. Occupying…

Elkann to create Jeep and Stellantis Meta(morphosis)

Jeep had a terrible 2024. The iconic all-terrain vehicle brand and crucial profit source for Stellantis saw sales ebb, dealers annoyed, and shifts reduced…

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WAN Links: User generated content, future of the newspaper & Zapiro on Zuma

New Strategic Reports From Shaping the Future of the Newspaper. Five new strategy reports on some of the most important recent developments in the…

The media should take note of bloggers

It’s been easy for some to dismiss the blogosphere as a fringe publishing phenomenon. Publishers, who have had a monopoly on mainstream publishing since…

Technology shifting power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the media elite?

Saw Mike Stoporth’s article on Bizcom in which he had this quote from Rupert Murdoch, talking about the internet: “To find something comparable, you…

When Gutenberg invented the printing press, he freed the publishers. But when the World Wide Web was pioneered by Tim Berners-Lee, it was said that the readers were now freed. The age of the internet has given unprecedented power to the reader by creating one of the most democratic and accessible forms of publishing yet – the blog.

Netocracy

If Karl Marx were alive today this is the book he would have written. This is the bold, if not slightly ambitious, claim of…

Mugabe’s Online Nightmare

Net Savvy Mugabe’s Online Nightmare The Daily News website and Zimonline continue to publish news critical of the Mugabe regime, and there’s not much…