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Thu, December 19th, 17:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
Facebook, banks must face IPO lawsuit
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and a range of banks are to face a lawsuit over allegedly concealing pertinent information from investors prior to the company’s initial public offering (IPO), a court has ruled. → Read more
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Thu, December 19th, 12:30 · Tom Jackson
BlackBerry announces new executive appointments
BlackBerry has announced three new executive appointments to strengthen its strategy, marketing and operations, as it looks to implement a turnaround under interim chief executive officer John Chen. → Read more
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Thu, December 19th, 07:00 · Selipha Kihagi
Big Data threatens a large percentage of Africa’s population – report
Big data poses a major threat to a large percentage of Africa’s population who remain on big data’s periphery for their use of feature phones, a research report by Convergence Partners has said. → Read more
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Wed, December 18th, 05:00 · Tom Jackson
NASDAQ must face lawsuits over Facebook IPO
A US court has ruled NASDAQ must face claims of negligence by investors in Facebook initial public offering (IPO) of May 2012, rejecting NASDAQ’s plea to have them dismissed. → Read more
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Tue, December 17th, 17:00 · Tom Jackson
Facebook to begin selling video ads
Facebook is to begin selling video advertisements this week, as it looks to further increase its revenues. → Read more
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Tue, December 17th, 16:30 · Selipha Kihagi
Online aggregator offers Africans fast access to latest news
A news aggregator, Cavegoat.com, has been launched seeking to offer Africans fast access to the latest news by collecting stories from various publications, sites and blogs and arranging them into various categories for readers. → Read more
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Tue, December 17th, 10:40 · Gabriella Mulligan
Facebook Donate allows users to give to non-profits
Facebook has launched its new “Donate” functionality, enabling users to give money directly to non-profit organisations through the social networking site. → Read more
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Mon, December 16th, 15:40 · Nick Sato
Facebook records unpublished messages – study
A new study of has revealed Facebook keeps a record of everything users type on the platform, even if they opt to delete them or decide not to publish. → Read more
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Mon, December 16th, 12:40 · Nick Sato
Send money to Kenya from UK through social media
A Singapore-based global money transfer and payments startup has launched a service that allows users to transfer money and content through social networks from the United Kingdom (UK) to Kenya enabling secure peer–to–peer transactions domestically and internationally. → Read more
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Sat, December 14th, 08:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
TomTom SA to tweet festive traffic updates
TomTom South Africa will provide real-time traffic updates over Twitter over the festive season, including information regarding all the main toll roads and delays at toll gates. → Read more
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Fri, December 13th, 13:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
Twitter reverses changes to block feature
Twitter has reversed changes to its block functionality less than a day after implementing them, following critical feedback from users. → Read more
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Fri, December 13th, 09:00 · Richard Cutcher
YouTube predicted to double ads revenue
YouTube’s advertising revenue is predicted to rise by more than 50 per cent to US$5.6 billion in 2013, according to a report by eMarketer. → Read more
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Fri, December 13th, 08:00 · Tom Jackson
Snapchat secures $50m funding – reports
Photo messaging service Snapchat has raised US$50 million in Series C funding from private equity firm Coatue Management, according to reports. → Read more
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Thu, December 12th, 20:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
Joburg, Lagos, Cairo rank low in ICT usage – report
Johannesburg, Lagos and Cairo all rank in the bottom half of cities surveyed for a new report considering ICT usage, infrastructure capacity and affordability of communications in the socio-economic environment worldwide. → Read more
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Wed, December 11th, 16:30 · Gabriella Mulligan
Twitter allows sending of pictures via DM
Twitter now allows users to send photographs via direct message (DM), one of a number of updates primarily intended to make the Twitter mobile app easier to use. → Read more
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Wed, December 11th, 10:00 · Tom Jackson
Twitter shares hit record high
Twitter shares rose for the second straight day yesterday, passing US$52 and reaching a new intraday high. → Read more
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Tue, December 10th, 19:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
World Cup draw prompts 1.7m Tweets
Twitter has revealed over 1.7 million Tweets were posted regarding the draw for the football World Cup on Saturday, as fans flocked to see who their national teams will be playing in Brazil in June 2014. → Read more
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Tue, December 10th, 17:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
Egypt, Nigeria, SA among most popular Facebook “check-in” sites
Facebook statistics on activity on the social media site in 2013 has revealed Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa featured among the most popular “check in” sites, while Nelson Mandela was among the top 10 most talked about topics of the year. → Read more
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Tue, December 10th, 11:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
SABC collecting Mandela tributes
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has set up a range of forums to collect condolences and tributes from members of the public following the death of former president Nelson Mandela. → Read more
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Tue, December 10th, 09:30 · Tom Jackson
Twitter shares approach all-time high
Twitter shares increased by 9.2 per cent on Monday to reach the highest level since its initial public offering (IPO) following a number of product announcements. → Read more
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