Author: Marcé

One of the most unexpected presidential elections in history (that one experienced by the US in 2016) could have been influenced by Facebook and targeted ads by Russian bots. People do go on about it and Facebook has said that it’s very, very sorry. Facebook also really doesn’t want a similar catastrophe to take place in South Africa in 2019’s elections. To improve transparency and combat the influence fake news can have on a democratic election, Facebook is implementing a new strategy for SA. Yesterday, Facebook Page managers received an email explaining that Facebook will now display the location of Page…

One of the world’s largest website hosting providers, GoDaddy, just launched in South Africa. And they want to get small South African businesses connected.

The messaging service, WhatsApp, is working on a feature that’ll allow users to do reverse-image searches. This will hopefully help combat fake news — something WhatsApp has struggled with in the recent past.

You’d think Huawei would have learnt from its past mistakes when it comes to its smartphone marketing campaigns. You’d think that some of the best smartphone cameras around would encourage it to use them for the promotional pics. Or that previous incidents would see it using a disclaimer like ‘images simulated’. But no. Once again the company’s been caught using images shot on DSLRs to promote an upcoming device. In this instance, the upcoming P30 Pro smartphone that’s expected to have some serious camera chops.

Samsung Pay, its contactless digital payment solution, will soon add Investec, and the upcoming Discovery bank to its lineup of banking options.

This weekend, Comic Con Cape Town was announced, quite unofficially. But if rumours turn out to be true, we’ll see Cape Town’s first Comic Con in 2020.

The latest update to the PlayStation 4 operating system includes the ability to properly sync with iOS devices and enable PS4 Remote Play.

According to a report from a recent shareholder meeting, the upcoming Disney+ streaming service will include “the entire Disney motion picture library”. This includes everything from TV shows, Pixar and Marvel movies, Disney classics and even titles that they’ve kept in the fabled ‘Vault’.

Taxify, the ride-hailing platform, has decided to rebrand and disassociate itself from the traditional combustion engine and call itself Bolt.

Labo, the cardboard DIY kits that Nintendo offers for its Switch console continues to evolve, and next up it’s bringing VR to the Japanese portable console.