South Africa’s MTN Group and France’s Orange announced this week that they will bring “smart feature phones” to Africa costing as little as US$20. The phones will run an operating system called KaiOS – but what is that?
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is betting the company’s future on video and disappearing posts called “stories”, not the company’s famous news feed. Investors are buying into the vision for now.
It wasn’t a dream or an exaggeration by cautious Facebook executives. The company’s financial results are weakening, just as executives warned they would a few months ago.
Facebook is losing another long-tenured founder from an acquired company: Brendan Iribe, who was the CEO of Oculus VR when Facebook bought it in 2014.
Telecommunications carriers have long grumbled that they spend a fortune building the world’s data networks only to watch the US technology giants reap most of the benefits. Now they fear Silicon Valley will take away their customers, too.
Facebook has unveiled a wireless virtual-reality headset called Oculus Quest, an attempt to help popularise the developing technology with a more mainstream audience.
The founders of Instagram are leaving Facebook after growing tensions with CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the direction of the photo-sharing app.
It’s been a bad year for Facebook. Okay, a truly terrible year. It just got even worse with the departure of Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.
MTN South Africa is pulling the plug on its popular zero-rated Twitter offering, saying it is no longer feasible to offer the service without charging for data use.
In the podcast this week, rumours of a new foldable Samsung phone, the growing importance of WhatsApp as a communications platform in South Africa, mirrorless cameras, a new Lego store and much more.