Facebook has unveiled a wireless virtual-reality headset called Oculus Quest, an attempt to help popularise the developing technology with a more mainstream audience.
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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.
Cell C appears to be stepping up to try to take market share from rival MTN by appealing to consumers hungry for cheap access to social media platforms.
Facebook on Wednesday reported second quarter sales and user growth that fell short of analysts’ projections. And the company told Wall Street the numbers won’t get any better this year.
Tencent’s strategy for expanding WeChat Pay globally is pretty straightforward: follow the (tourism) money. It’s a smart strategy. But it’s also decidedly unambitious.
Facebook bestrides the Earth. It attracts nearly 1.5 billion users a day, commands a fifth of global online advertising revenue and has a market capitalisation that exceeds the GDP of many countries. But breaking it up is the wrong approach.
Just three months after introducing a low-cost, 1GB WhatsApp data bundle costing only R10, MTN South Africa has hiked the price – for many users, at least – by 200%. Introduced in April, MTN said the price increase had