South Africans are no strangers to the concept of a side hustle. In fact, according to data from a recent Momentum/Unisa Household Index, an estimated 14% of all households are currently engaged in side hustles.
While many people wear multiple work hats out of a passion for a specific...
Elon Musk has bought a 9.2% stake in Twitter, more than four times the 2.25% holding of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. His newly purchased shares now make Musk one of the largest shareholders in the company.
The news saw the company's shares soar about 25% of the pre-market trading. According...
Facebook's recent attempt to update WhatsApp's privacy policy has left many users concerned and searching for a more 'secure' messaging platform, like Telegram.
This move has sparked what Telegram founder, Pavel Durov, says is "the largest digital migration in human history" after the platform saw a massive increase in active...
Telegram has released a new update that includes an auto-delete timer for messages in any chat, as well as new flexible invite links.
Auto-Delete Messages
Telegram users can now enable an auto-delete timer in all chats, which will automatically erase messages for all participants either 24 hours or 7 days after...
Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) has teamed up with Mondia Pay, a digital payments company, to roll out seamless and contactless payments solutions for mobile network operators. Since the commencement of the partnership in September 2020, demand for the implementation of Direct Carrier Billing service (DCB) for seamless, contactless payments...
Spotify is launching new offers for its free and first-time South African users to enjoy the benefits of a Premium account.
The music-streaming platform is offering three months free to eligible free and first time-users for the Individual Premium plan. For those who are missing their Individual Premium plan and cancelled...
When it comes to Internet connectivity, it’s important to know the basics, so you can understand what you’re paying for and what you should be getting, but with so much jargon and so many acronyms used to describe Internet connectivity, different connections, and package options, it’s easy to get...
Yesterday Facebook and its apps WhatsApp and Instagram, amongst the most popular apps used by mankind, all went down across a massive period of nearly 6 hours.
During the period users were not able to access any of the platforms, and, according to reports, Facebook staff was likewise unable to...
Showmax Pro will be broadcasting all 64 matches of the FIFA World Cup in QatarTM live. Better still, the coverage, courtesy of SuperSport, will be streamed in 4K, a first for Africa’s homegrown streaming service.
Reigning world champions France will be defending their title at the FIFA World Cup QatarTM,...
Orderin, South Africa’s only pure Delivery-as-a-Service (DaaS) business with 100% proprietary technology, has raised $4.7 million (R70 million) in a recently closed pre-series B funding round. The funding will allow the business to scale up infrastructure, and enhance last mile delivery, which continues to be a pain point for...
Launched as a solution to the woes of the lockdown of the previous two years, South African lender Nedbank's Avo app has grown to 1-million users as of today, with the bank saying it far outgrew even its expectations.
Nedbank says that it has seen exponential growth and has doubled...
Google Trends has released the top searched items by South Africans on its search engine for July 2022.
South Africans eager to find out more information on everything from current affairs to the latest celebrity news and their favorite sports teams turned to Google Search this July to satisfy their...
Microsoft will soon launch a free virtual private network (VPN) to its Edge internet browser, according to a support page detailing the upcoming service. This comes through a partnership the tech empire has with Cloudflare.
The service will be known as Microsoft Edge Secure Network with the company saying that...
The Safaricom App is now available for download from the Huawei App Gallery. The app provides Safaricom customers with a user-friendly way to access the telco's products and services.
Through the app, users can:
M-PESA SEND MONEY- Select their contacts directly from their phone book, Hakikisha the name of the...
WhatsApp is working on a new password protection feature that would encrypt chat backups, reports The Verge.
At the moment, chats are only end-to-end encrypted on WhatsApp - this doesn't include the online backups stored on Google Drive and iCloud.So with the introduction of this feature, chats would only be...
Microsoft Teams has exploded in popularity since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent remote work exodus. Millions of people have brought their offices home with them, and with that, they’ve turned to Microsoft Teams.
In fact, more than 145 million Daily Active Users have turned to MS Teams to...
