Your data is giving Big Tech control of everything and only a huge shift by the people can halt it
Companies, such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft are working together to take down terrorist propaganda
The tech giant’s planned campus in the German city angers anti-gentrification campaigners
Google has over 200 factors that rank its sites, pages and images, but is it an accurate tool?
Social media sites aren’t the only online systems that can secretly influence people’s votes
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China’s e-commerce giant, Alibaba, is steering resources towards driverless car technology
Sagarmatha Technologies has punted itself as the next tech giant – in the same vein as Amazon and Google
Analysts doubt the listing of media assets will succeed. But will the PIC provide the funds?
The media giant’s shares plunged over revelations that a firm working for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign misused data on 50 million members.
Software tools for South Africa’s Nguni languages may assist with redress and effective communication.
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What has made internet platforms so profitable has also left them vulnerable to manipulation by malign actors
In Davos, the threat from Internet platform monopolies should be a top concern for WEF attendees.
Advertising agencies must confront the need for change if they are to survive in the SA landscape
Less than two years ago, blog turned news site Mashable was valued at $250-million, with Time Warner among its investors.
The multinational’s restrictions on videos of Reed Dancers sexualise cultural practices, say critics
Video is the future of news, but tech giants and publishers must work together to ensure the value of journalism in a free society isn’t squandered
The move splashed fuel on a burning controversy about whether "political correctness" is stifling free speech.
“Only eight countries in Africa … have a majority of content that is locally produced,” according to a new study.
The overenthusiastic spellchecker-cum-predictive-text function in the PathInput app turns ordinary text into a surreal fantasy, writes Shaun de Waal
Kiri Rupiah explains how the Google Image search algorithm works to filter image results – and how these results come to reflect white supremacy.
United States President Barack Obama makes a rare visit to Cuba this week. This after his December 2014 announcement of renewed relations with Cuba.
Google Africa recently paid for 35 journalists from various African countries, including South Africa, to explore Kenya using several apps.
Google has unveiled a surprise corporate overhaul forming a new parent company dubbed Alphabet, which will include a handful of independent companies.
Thousands are fighting for the right to be forgotten on the internet, a place where embarrassments are rarely erased, writes Alistair Fairweather.
The whistle-blowing site has accused Google of handing information to the US authorities without notifying it until almost three years later.
Social media, games and fitness dominate the app stores of three of the major smartphone platforms in South Africa, writes Arthur Goldstuck.
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Forget freezing eggs – firms should welcome pregnancy as a chance to invest in its staff.
Although we are living in an age of infinite information, existing in a comfortable bubble has never been easier, writes Alistair Fairweather.
Google is removing the results of searches of some people’s names in line with a court ruling, which has protected people’s “right to be forgotten”.
Google South Africa was down for all of a few minutes, if you blinked, you missed it. Some didn’t though, because they don’t blink.
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To have a private company make decisions that affect the media via an opaque process is to invite a legal, ethical and practical disaster.
Do requests to delete data lead to an ‘internet with borders’? Ombud Franz Krüger explores.