Author: Marcé

What’s the point of owning a social media platform and not implementing some sort of shopping feature? You’re reaching all of these users, right? Might as well… make some cash while doing it. Now Linktree — the mini website platform used to group a few links together (thanks Instagram) — has partnered with PayPal to offer in-app payment services.  PayPal’s Linktree getting taller Hailed as one of the most popular ‘link-in-bio’ services, Linktree already allows creators to monetise their content and/or products and services via something called Commerce Links. Right now, it functions as a nifty hub where creators and…

If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll know that Standard Bank launched its own mobile network back in 2018, offering its banking customers access to mobile connections ever since. The fairly new MVNO (mobile virtual network operator), dubbed SB Mobile, recently revealed competitively priced LTE data bundles starting at R130p/m for 20GB of data.  These aren’t special prices either — it’s just what SB Mobile’s fixed-LTE packages cost. This means these prices are only valid for 4G services in a fixed location — meaning you won’t be able to carry it around as you do a Rain SIM in a portable…

In less than a week, OnlyFans — the platform that gained popularity for giving sex workers a professional platform — managed a complete 180 on its explicit content terms. On 20 August, the platform announced it will effectively ban certain explicit content from its platform to comply with the terms of its payment providers.  Today the platform suddenly published a tweet detailing that it rescinds its previous announcement, and the platform will continue to allow sex workers and their content thanks to so-called “assurances”.  OnlyFans made a booboo “We have secured assurances necessary to support our diverse creator community and…

New reports suggest Huawei’s received approval on licence applications to buy chips from the United States — but it’s likely not for what you think.  The Chinese telecoms company have made headlines in recent years thanks to some of the harshest trade sanctions imposed on it by the US. Now, it’s receiving approval to start trading with certain sectors and businesses for the first time. And it’s to acquire microchips for its growing auto component business.  Yup. Huawei’s making cars with American microchips The interesting part here is that the company still doesn’t have the approval to buy microchips from…

The social media platform that’s taken the online social world and flipped it on its head, TikTok, has been missing one critical feature, don’t you think? Reckon it needs more… capitalism? Well, you’re in luck, because it’s partnering with the e-tailer platform Shopify to help sell directly through the app.  “Shopify merchants who have a TikTok business account would soon be able to add a shopping tab to their profiles for the first time ever,” Reuters reports. TikTok’s TikShop (that sounded better in our head) The feature will allow businesses, or any type of merchants, to add a shoppable link…

We’re not even being funny if we tell you this is a MacBook for Windows fanatics. Encountering an anti-Apple techie isn’t as challenging as you may think — so if they’re keen on the productivity and style offered by MacBooks and want the accessibility of the Windows ecosystem, the Huawei MateBook 14 tops the list.  Offered as Huawei’s ultraportable productivity laptop, the MateBook 14 offers superb build quality, a magnificent display and a comfortable size for the power-worker. With that, we include anyone who has more than 10 tabs open at a time. That’s not even mentioning additional apps.  We…

Everyone’s favourite Facebook-owned picture-sharing app is getting another update (story of our lives, eh?), and this time it’ll mainly affect businesses, brands and influencers. Instagram’s swipe-up link feature, generally found in Stories, is disappearing. The widely-used feature was reserved for accounts with more than 10,000 followers. It allowed profiles to insert links to websites, videos, and web pages directly in their Instagram Stories to direct viewers to those locations quickly. The feature will officially disappear on 30 August, according to new reports.  Read More: Instagram introduces new features to prevent abuse Instagram’s ?major? update App researcher Jane Manchun Wong (who…

Samsung’s managed to overtake the world’s favourite chipmaker, Intel, as the biggest semiconductor manufacturer globally. This is according to the latest The McClean Report published by IC Insights which investigates the state of the semiconductor industry and reports on its earnings.  Samsung’s proud domination The report details Samsung’s rise as it sold the most semiconductors in Q2 of 2021. Overall, it managed to increase profits by a whopping 19%, “…bringing in a total of $20.29 billion in the April-June period alone. Of that amount, $19.26 billion came from integrated circuit (IC) sales, while the remaining $1.03 billion came from optoelectronic,…

OnlyFans, the platform widely known as one of the only acceptable and safe spots for sex workers has announced that it will start blocking pornography on its site. This is according to multiple reports — all of which indicate that this sudden change of heart is motivated by multiple factors.  Surprisingly, the platform is ditching the very content and creators that helped it gain fame across the world. The Britain-based company has made heaps of money from independent creators in the explicit content category and has in recent months started to shift focus away from that part of the platform.…

Sometimes the ‘cool kid’ is forced to go to a school function in decent clothes, and everyone’s shocked to see them all cleaned up — but you know what’s under the pretty dress or the spiffy suit. That’s the exact feeling we got from the Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 gaming notebook.  We had the opportunity to test the fully specced out variation of the newly launched in South Africa ROG Zephyrus M16. Under its fancy hood, an RTX 3070, an Intel Core i9-11900H and a whopping 32GB Dual-Channel RAM. Backing up all of the above was a 2TB SSD and…