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Kenyan users of Facebook have taken to the network to seek public approval to throw Igembe South member of parliament (MP) Mithika Linturi (more)
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24 days agoSA man to sue police officer over Facebook photo
A South African man is to sue a high-ranking policewoman who allegedly posted a picture of his stepson on Facebook, accusing him of theft.
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24 days agoWe all have a stake in social media – David Fasanya
Nigeria-born American poet David Fasanya says every user of social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter has a stake in the networks.
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24 days agoDesign expert says UX requires scientific approach
User experience (UX) should be approached as a science in measuring human behaviour, Indian design expert Srini Srinivasan said at an (more)
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24 days agoTwitter commissions reactive #Flock cuckoo clock
Twitter UK has commissioned a limited edition wireless cuckoo clock, known as the #Flock, which reacts to events on its owner’s Twitter (more)
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26 days agoGoogle Maps detects possible murder case
Debate is raging as to whether an image from Google Maps is an aerial view of a bloody corpse or a wet dog.
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27 days agoRussia’s Facebook gives investigators insight into Boston bomb suspect
Russian social network VKontakte has given the FBI insight into the personality of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second suspect allegedly (more)
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27 days agoKidnapped French family released by Cameroonian rebels
The French family kidnapped by Cameroonian rebels and paraded to the world via YouTube has been released, a government official has (more)
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27 days agoTwitter’s music app ready to play, Android annoyed
Twitter’s anticipated music app went live this week, providing the perks of follower and artist recommendations under #music on the iOS (more)
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27 days agoScaling Facebook with 1bn monthly users with "tens of thousands" of servers
Neil Blakey-Milner, a production engineer for Facebook's core systems, says Facebook’s construction of its own data centres is helping to (more)
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27 days agoVKontakte founder’s house police raided
The Saint Petersburg home of Russian social network VKontakte founder Pavel Durov was raided by police yesterday (Wednesday) as (more)
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28 days agoThe HumanIPO Debate: Is #KOT a legitimate organisation with worthy motives?
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28 days agoLinkedin revamps app, launches smartphone ads
Corporate online community Linkedin has revamped its mobile apps, introducing adverts on smartphones as a test to elevate news content.
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28 days agoKenya government hunts down Facebook page administrators
The Kenyan government is tracking down administrators of three Facebook pages accused of spreading hate messages and raising tribal (more)
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28 days agoEskimi lures Nigerian financial institutions with new growth opportunity and portal
The largest social media network to meet new people in Africa, Eskimi, has announced growth opportunities for financial institutions in (more)
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28 days agoRise Networks piques Nigerian students’ interest in education with free online community
Toyosi Akerele, founder of Rise Networks, has told HumanIPO they launched Passnownow.com after realising the best way to stimulate Nigerian (more)
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29 days agoFacebook's mobile ads to be bigger than television
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, has defended its mobile advertising plan, saying it will be “more important” (more)
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29 days agoGangnam Style's Psy rockets to YouTube record
South Korean pop sensation Psy has recorded a record number of YouTube hits in 24 hours with Gentleman, the follow-up to the smash hit (more)
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30 days agoSociaNav launches social media metrics report
South African social media company SociaNav has launched metrics reports GoNav, GoNav+ and BizNav to give comprehensive reports on social (more)
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30 days ago#SomeoneTellUganda Kenya’s latest Twitter storm
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30 days agoYouTube celebrates VHS anniversary
YouTube yesterday celebrated the 57th anniversary of the VCR with a special one-off VHS mode on the video-sharing site.
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30 days agoNasdaq chief loses out on bonus over Facebook listing failures
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc has announced the reduction of chief executive Robert Greifeld’s bonus by US$542,100 over the failures of the (more)
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1 month agoAlpha Media announces Digital First strategy
Zimbabwean publishing company Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) announced the launch of its Digital First strategy to boost digital publishing (more)
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1 month agoKenya: report shows hate speech on social media doubled in March
Kenya witnessed an increase in hate speech days before and after last month’s general election, according to the Umati project, which (more)
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1 month agoMark Zuckerberg to visit Nigeria next month
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will visit the oil rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria in May as a guest speaker at an economic summit (more)
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1 month agoGTBank launches Facebook banking services
Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank) has launched a social media banking service that allows individuals to perform some activities from their (more)
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1 month agoTwitter Trends for Kenya launched
Kenya now has a dedicated Twitter Trends after the micro-blogging site added 160 new locations to the service.
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1 month agoJubilee campaign advertisement shoot leaks on YouTube and goes viral
A video showing Kenya’s new president Uhuru Kenyatta in a light mood has emerged on YouTube under the title ‘EXCLUSIVE : President (more)
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1 month agoGuest Post: Best practices for social media marketing for SMEs
In an exclusive guest post for HumanIPO, David Ingram discusses the way social media has changed marketing strategies of businesses. A (more)
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1 month agoFacebook enters politics
Chief executive officers (CEOs) of top American tech companies such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft have formed a lobby group in order to (more)
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1 month agoTwitter to launch music app this weekend - report
Twitter is rumoured to be launching a music app this weekend, most likely on Friday at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in (more)
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1 month agoPistorius family condemns social media “disrespect”
The family of Oscar Pistorius has condemned the disrespectful tone of commentary on social media surrounding Pistorius’ killing of (more)
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1 month agoBlog hosts tumble out editorial staff
Blogging platform tumblr has ditched its dedicated editorial team, but will continue to look for “new ways to shine light on our (more)
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1 month agoState House Kenya launches social media accounts
Hours after assuming power, the self declared ‘Digital Team’ of Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto have launched presidential Twitter and (more)
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1 month agoKenyan inauguration dominates social media
Social media was awash yesterday as Kenyans marked the inauguration of new president Uhuru Kenyatta.
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1 month agoSA expert says infographics a quick fix to more online hits
South African social media expert Dave Duarte has emphasised the use of infographics as part of online visual attraction in social media to (more)
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1 month agoWhatsApp denies Google acquisition rumours
WhatsApp has denied reports it is negotiating with Google over the US$1 billion acquisition of the messaging app.
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1 month agoMargaret Thatcher’s death trending across Africa
The news of the death of Britain’s first and only female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, has been met with a massive response across (more)
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1 month agoGoogle to acquire WhatsApp - rumours
Google is in negotiations over the acquisition of messaging app WhatsApp for “close to” US$1 billion, according to reports.
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1 month agoWeChat denies price increase rumours
Chinese chat app owner Tencent Holdings have reiterated its WeChat services will remain free after a Chinese minister pointed to (more)
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1 month agoFacebook trials paid messages system
Facebook is trialling a system which charges users for sending messages to people outside their “friends” network, in order to cut down (more)
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1 month agoVisual imagery, emotion key in social media success, expert says
South African social media expert Dave Duarte has spoken on the importance of evoking emotion with visual imagery for social media success (more)
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1 month agoHacker “Weev” live-tweeting from prison
A hacker imprisoned in the United States for stealing over 120,000 iPad users’ emails addresses has found a way around the system again, (more)
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1 month agoFacebook loses almost 1m SA users
Facebook has lost almost one million South African users in the last three months, according to social media monitoring firm SocialBakers.
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1 month agoNorth Korea social media sites hacked
North Korea’s Twitter and Flickr accounts were hacked yesterday, with hacking group Anonymous claiming responsibilities.
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1 month agoWordPress set for bigger presence on social media
Matt Mullenwag, founder of WordPress, has revealed plans for more social features on his open source blogging template to increase surface (more)
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1 month agoAUC demands end to Zuma imposters on social media
The African Union Commission (AUC) has demanded “hackers in the social media space” to stop posing as AUC chairperson Nkosazana (more)
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1 month agoOPINION: Cases against social media sites could shape ethics in the cyber world
Recently, a Jewish students union from France vowed to pursue a lawsuit against Twitter to a tune of US$50 million, accusing the (more)
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1 month agoEgyptian presidency reprimands US Embassy for Stewart retweet
The Egyptian presidency has reprimanded the United States (US) Embassy in Cairo over Twitter for retweeting a show by a comedian mocking (more)
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