With over 16 million Facebook users alone in South Africa, social interaction increasingly involves the conscious – and also unconscious – exchange of personal information online. Apart from the obvious security risks, “social media users often...
September 25, 2019 •
General, Software •
Fundi Maseko •
Comments Off on Social software to nearly double by 2023- Gartner
Gartner predicts that the market for social software and collaboration in the workplace will grow from an estimated $2.7 billion in 2018 to $4.8 billion by 2023. According to the company, nearly 60 per cent of enterprise application software providers will...
Twitter is experimenting with a new ‘hide replies’ feature. “Earlier this year we started testing a way to give people more control over the conversations they start. Today, we’re expanding this test to Japan and the United States,”...
August 23, 2019 •
Sponsored •
Jenna Cook •
Comments Off on How to drive more traffic to your website
As much as having a website is almost a prerequisite if you have a business, it is not just a case of building it and watching the magic happen. In fact, it is quite the opposite. Building your website is just the start, generating traffic and then converting...
On Tuesday, 30 July 2019, South African network provider, MTN, issued a warning to its customers about two parody social media accounts, namely MTN AWOOF Giveaway and MTN Free Dashout. These fake accounts claim to be official MTN accounts, however, they are...
Social media giant, Facebook, has agreed to pay a record $5 billion fine — the biggest fine ever imposed over users’ privacy. The settlement announced on Wednesday, 24 July 2019, is said to resolve the US Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) investigation...
Instagram, the video and image sharing social network, announced on Thursday, 18 July 2019, that it plans to update its account disable policy. This is not the first time that the social media platform has had to take another look at its policy this year —...
Google is again trying its hand at penetrating the social media market with the release of its latest platform, Shoelace. The launch comes just weeks after the tech company retired Google+, a social network that was created in 2011. The most notable...
MTN Group is proud to announce the launch of Africa’s first Mobile Money (MoMo) artificial intelligence service or “chatbot”. The chatbot went live in Ivory Coast in May and will be rolled out across MTN’s MoMo footprint in the next...
Go change your Facebook password right now because it could be compromised. The social media company admitted in a blog post on Thursday that it has stored “hundreds of millions” of account passwords in plaintext for years. This essentially left passwords...
Nowadays the number of peoples using Instagram increases day by day. Hence making more number of followers in this social media becomes a tedious process. To make this process easy and popular among social media users choosing Famoid services is the best...
Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg has announced the resignation of the company’s Chief Product Officer, Chris Cox, and the head of WhatsApp, Chris Daniels. Cox has been with Facebook for more than a decade and currently oversees the company’s core suite of...
Earlier this week, Apple disabled Facebook and Google’s internal applications after privacy violations were revealed, leaving Google and Facebook employees at a standstill for key operations. However, on Thursday, February 7, Apple widened its privacy feud...
According to a quarterly report by the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), the number of internet subscribers who paid the social media tax reduced from 8.04 million in July 2018 to 6.84 million people in September.41 Last year, Uganda’s parliament...
January 16, 2019 •
Online & Social •
Danielle Kruger •
Comments Off on Android gets Twitter’s reverse-chronological feed
Android, we got you. Starting today, tap ✨ to switch between latest and top Tweets. pic.twitter.com/7rXo3BNEJ6 — Twitter (@Twitter) January 15, 2019 After bringing back the reverse-chronological timeline to iOS in December, Twitter is doing the same for...
Zimbabwe’s government is limiting access to the internet – and social media specifically – in an attempt to stifle violent protests that have broken out in response to skyrocketing fuel prices. Protests broke out across the country after...
