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Kenya’s Social Media Day was celebrated in Nairobi on Friday with bloggers, media experts and entrepreneurs joining together to discuss (more)
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Rapper Rick Ross has been on the receiving end of a verbal barrage this morning after he posted a tweet calling Africa a country.
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Cell C today announced its Facebook account had been hacked.
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African hacking group African Anonymous has hacked the official website of the South African ruling party African National Congress (ANC) (more)
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Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal has apologised for incorrectly tweeting a rest-in-peace message to Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s (more)
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23 days agoFacebook and Google deny compromising personal data
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