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You Mailed It! Celebrating South Africa’s Slickest Email Campaigns of 2025

Inbox icons, subject line sorcerers, CTA kings – the results are in. The 2025 You Mailed It Awards by Everlytic have crowned their champs, with Old Mutual Rewards and Machine_ taking…

Gen Z and Millennials Quietly Disrupt South Africa’s Insurance Industry

A silent revolution is underway in South Africa’s insurance industry, and it’s being led by Gen Z and Millennials. These digitally native generations are…

Stranger Things Season 5 Teaser Drops

Netflix has officially unveiled the teaser trailer for Stranger Things Season 5, setting the stage for the final chapter in the award-winning sci-fi series….

MTN Group Fintech’s Mandela Day campaign is about much more than hygiene kits

By now, most Mandela Day campaigns follow a familiar script: brief acts of corporate kindness, obligatory photos, and promises to “give back.” MTN Group…

Old Mutual SMEgo has launched the 2025 Entrepreneur Mental Wellbeing Survey, a national initiative that puts the mental health of small business owners at…

Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa Joins AWIEF 2025

With just four months to go until the 11th edition of the Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF), organisers have announced a keynote…

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…

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…

The most recognisable tactical pickup truck evolves

Perhaps the most iconic of all light tactical vehicles is the Toyota Land Cruiser Technical. These pickup trucks have been a platform of choice…

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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…

The blog phenomenon

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…