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Two top Facebook executives leave the company, Zuckerberg announced

Mark Zuckerberg has revealed that two Facebook executives have decided to leave the company. In a blog post, Zukerberg referred to the news in…

WhatsApp to get its own Facebook-made cryptocurrency, report suggests

Facebook is working on a cryptocurrency for its chat service WhatsApp, a New York Times report suggests. Citing five individuals familiar with the matter,…

10 big stories from February 2019 worth reading again

It’s come an gone in the blink of an eye, almost as if it’s the shortest month of the year. (Get it?). February, for…

Do you feel old? WhatsApp celebrates its 10th birthday

WhatsApp has now officially been around for 10 years, after first launching on smartphones back in 2009. To celebrate, the company released a “thank…

WhatsApp Business beta now available for iOS

Everyone’s favourite WhatsApp feature leakers WABetaInfo has revealed that WhatsApp Business is now available for iOS beta users. Previously, the app was only available…

WhatsApp to launch new Group Invitation feature

WhatsApp will be launching a Group Invitation feature in the near future, according to WABetaInfo. This means that you may soon be able to…

WhatsApp, Snapchat could be banned in the UK

Snapchat and WhatsApp might be banned in Great Britain if Prime Minister David Cameron has anything to do with it. Cameron said that he…

WhatsApp continues to surge, gaining 100 million new users in just four months

WhatsApp cofounder and CEO Jan Koum has announced that the messaging app has reached 700-million monthly active users, with some 30-billion messages sent every…

WhatsApp bulks up its Android encryption efforts

WhatsApp has made end-to-end encryption the default for all Android users, following a partnership with nonprofit software group Open Whisper Systems. Privacy is a…

Woah. WhatsApp says it now has half a billion active users

Ah, WhatsApp. The little green multiplatform messaging app isn’t a stranger to big numbers. On a good day, it can process 64-billion messages in…

Can features like Chat Cards and Newsfeed make Mxit cool again?

Not so long ago, Mxit appeared to be caught in something of a malaise. Alan Knott Craig Jr, the man who promised to change…

News via chat app: BBC uses WhatsApp, WeChat to report Indian elections

When India last held a general election in 2009, the country had fewer than 50-million internet users – a mere four percent of the…

A Game of Social Thrones: here’s what the kingdoms of the web would look like

What do you get when you combine the most pirated show on the internet with the web’s biggest social media channels? This brilliant little…

Facebook Messenger joins the free phonecall brigade

If you’re a Facebook Messenger fan, then you’ll probably be relieved to find out that the social network hasn’t stopped work on the app…

Get OTT ‘a here! Facebook’s WhatsApp buyout and the state of mobile messaging

No one could blame you for wondering how many square meals you could buy for the world’s poor with 45% of US$19-billion (reportedly the…

10 pieces of consumer tech that have transformed PR over the past decade

While we may not yet have the hover boards, flying cars and self-lacing shoes promised in 80s cult movie Back To The Future, the…

WhatsUpp with Facebook buying WhatsApp? An investor’s perspective

Make no mistake, Facebook buying WhatsApp is absolutely huge. In fact, it is one of the biggest tech deals done in a while. A…

6 things you might not know about the Facebook, WhatsApp deal

The inevitable happened… Facebook bought an instant messaging service. After its denied attempt at purchasing SnapChat way back when in internet time, Mark Zuckerberg…

WhatsFace: Facebook to snap up WhatsApp for $19B in cash, stock

Boom! Did you see that coming? Facebook says that it has reached an agreement to acquire WhatsApp, for a total of about US$16-billion, including…

5 business archetypes to take note of [pt 1]: millennials in the digital workspace

In this, the first of a series exploring the kind of archetypal personalities that businesses should be taking note of in the next few…

Top 10 messaging apps in the world [Infographic]

“Hey, why don’t you send me a text?” said no one ever in 2013. That might not be an accurate, or even true statement,…

New Ookla Insights Show MTN Holding Mobile Speed Lead as Vodacom Claims 5G Advantage

Motorola and Swarovski Bring Foldable Luxury to South Africa with the Brilliant Collection

Sanlam Fintech Expands Its AI Coach to Tackle South Africa’s Medical Access Gap

Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

Simbi Wabote’s 10-Year Roadmap: How Nigeria Achieved 54% Local Content Growth

Records Tumble In Best Year Yet For South Africa’s Hedge Fund Industry

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

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