In an effort to vet applicants, some companies are going beyond glancing at a person’s Facebook profile and instead asking to log in to poke around.
The US anti-capitalist movement is on the rise, unlike the European Left, which is sinking.
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/ 14 February 2012
India does not intend to censor online social networks such as Facebook but demands that they obey the same rules governing the press and other media.
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/ 6 February 2012
People are more likely to give in to urge to tweet or check email than other cravings, say US researchers.
Thabo Mbeki’s scepticism of social media’s role in democracy may seem outdated but the fact is there’s a lot of nonsense floating around online.
Thabo Mbeki has expresses his scepticism of Twitter and blogging, calling it a tool to spread "false knowledge" to advance certain groups’ agendas.
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/ 22 November 2011
Some politicians have taken to using social media as a tool to measure social unrest, while others are using it to engage citizens and cut costs.
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/ 10 November 2011
Business is wasting time and money by trying to reach people on social networks sites without a targeted strategy, a global research survey has found.
From spoilt surprise parties to faux pas, Minister <b>Malusi Gigaba</b>, shares his Twitter story.
<b>Matthew Buckland</b> spoke to <i>Wired</i> publisher Chris Anderson about how technology,
social media and the internet are evolving.
A global study shows nine in 10 executives of media and entertainment companies aren’t prepared to seize opportunities of digital technologies.
With the proliferation of social media, it will become increasingly difficult for states to hide atrocities, writes <b>Joseph Dana</b>.
A harried week of phone banking and social networking marked parties’ final drive.
Almost one-in-four South Africans use social media as a tool to look for work, but are concerned about the potential career fallout from personal cont
It’s not just social networks that are helping to take down regimes in North Africa, it’s also a youth fuelled by popular culture and ad slogans.
The immediacy and democracy of social media have been crucial to the success of uprisings.
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/ 2 February 2011
US academic leads intellectual backlash against
online communication and social networking.
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/ 9 December 2010
When Google offers to buy your two-year-old website for as much as $6-billion, you’d have to be crazy to refuse, right?
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/ 26 October 2010
A storm erupted on Facebook last week after Woolworths announced that it would be removing Christian magazines from its shelves.
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/ 26 October 2010
Woolworths wasn’t the first company to feel the wrath of the online community in South Africa, and it certainly won’t be the last.
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/ 13 October 2010
We human beings are an irrational bunch. When anything new comes along we tend to take one of three basic positions: deify, deny or demonise.
Hosting the first Soccer World Cup in the age of Twitter, South Africa has discovered unexpected benefits in its campaign to market the country.
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/ 3 February 2009
In the past politicians would go after voters with rah-rah rallies and door-to-door campaigns, but not anymore…
Vodacom brings effortless internet to all its cellphone customers and makes a deal with South African social-media website <i>Zoopy.com</i>.