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Facebook has filed its S-1 form with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), announcing its intention to go public. The stock ticker symbol will be FB. No starting price has yet been named, but Facebook did say in the filing it expects to raise

Facebook’s core values include a powerful, results-orientated, anti-theoretical philosophy called the “Hacker Way”, according to founder Mark Zuckerberg. “The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration,” Zuckerberg writes

Online personal financial management start-up 22seven on Wednesday accused Absa of blocking its US technology partner Yodlee from accessing users’ Internet bank accounts. Absa confirms it has blocked the service and on Wednesday defended its decision in an interview with TechCentral. 22seven has provoked

Independent telecommunications infrastructure operator Metrofibre Networx has extended its “open-access” fibre network across the Johannesburg suburb of Rivonia, meaning businesses and some residential homes in the area can now get high-speed Internet connections of up to 1Gbit/s. The area covered

Web hosting and domain registrar DiaMatrix has become the first registrar of .co.za domains to incorporate SA domain administrator UniForum’s new extensive provisioning protocol (EPP), which is used to register and manage domains and will eventually come to replace the current system called

On Digital Media (ODM), owner of satellite pay-TV service TopTV, has confirmed the company’s board is in talks with CEO Vino Govender about a “mutual separation”. In a statement, ODM chairman Eddie Mbalo says the board is “in discussions with the CEO on a mutual separation, but those discussions are not

Telecommunications opereator Neotel has appointed Noel Studti as its new chief sales and marketing officer. Studti, a former IBMer, takes on the role from this month. Studti joins Neotel from the Innovation Group, where he most recently held the position of chief sales officer. He has previously worked closely with

Christo Davel, former head of now-defunct online bank 20twenty, sparked intense debate and provoked security warnings from local banks last week when he took the wraps off his new venture, personal financial management website 22seven. The start-up got itself noticed. But is the service safe to use?

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is probably not a happy man today, with the company reporting disappointing fourth quarter 2011 earnings , including a dramatic 58% decline in net income. Many analysts were unsure where Amazon would stand this past quarter with the launch of the much-hyped US$199 Kindle Fire tablet

For months, Research in Motion (RIM), the Canadian maker of BlackBerry smartphones, has seemed incapable of getting anything right. Its PlayBook tablet went on sale without e-mail (unless attached to a BlackBerry). Its network was blacked out for days with scarcely a word from the company. It has