F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
Facebook, TenCent in battle for Chinese social gaming market
The great Firewall of China, a colloquial term for country’s censorship policies, may have kept most of the nation’s 420-million web users from accessing…
Social gaming: The hype is justified
There’s no shortage of hype about social gaming at the moment, resulting in substantial buyouts of social gaming startups by large media conglomerates. The…
Tencent acquires major Chinese social network from Google
China’s largest online company, Tencent, has bought Beijing-based social networking provider Comsenz from search giant Google and VC firm,Sequoia Capital for $60-million. Comsenz is…
South Africa, Naspers and the Facebook connection
Emerging market internet media giant Naspers has announced that it will acquire a 28.7% stake in Digital Sky Technologies (DST), the Russian internet company…
