Facebook’s Instagram is estimated to be worth more than US$100-billion (R1.4-trillion), if it were a standalone company, marking a 100-fold return for the app was purchased in 2012, according to data compiled by
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Facebook and Google are the biggest media owners in almost every market across the globe and they seem to be heading for world domination. But is that so bad? One of my favourite TV shows growing up
Netflix is making significant inroads in South Africa, disrupting pay-television behemoth MultiChoice by providing a cheaper, more convenient and non-linear way of watching TV content. The streaming content provider is drawing
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg came within a whisker of leapfrogging Warren Buffett as the world’s third-richest person on Wednesday. Zuckerberg, more than half a century younger than the Berkshire
Facebook’s photo-sharing app Instagram has reached a billion monthly active users. To spur future growth, the company announced a new feature: Instagram television. Anyone will be able to upload videos for Instagram’s new
Alice Liogier wants to slap a price on her data. The 23-year-old graduate student from Paris is researching the commercial use of personal information in the age of big data and she’s reached a controversial
Facebook said it had data-sharing partnerships with four Chinese consumer device makers, including Huawei, escalating concerns that the social network has consistently failed to tell users how their personal
Apple’s software-focused event on Monday was a momentous moment – for Facebook. Toward the tail end of a more than two-hour Apple presentation to software developers, the company announced changes to
Facebook is disputing a New York Times report about how it shares data with device makers from Apple and Amazon to Samsung. They’re privy to Facebook users’ information but it’s nothing like the access that led to the
It was not a normal Facebook shareholder meeting. On Thursday in Menlo Park, California, one investor compared the social network’s poor stewardship of user data to a human rights violation. Another warned that