Out with the old, in with the new… Meta Platforms has announced that Facebook will phase out classic pages and replace them with new ones. In an email to Facebook users, Meta said, “starting soon, the option to switch back to the classic Pages experience will no longer be available for your Page(s). Over the...
Month: <span>February 2023</span>
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ANC and Cyril Ramaphosa government are dragging Brand South Africa on the ground
SA’s leaderless mess! While the country deals with myriad challenges – such as load shedding, water shedding, growing joblessness, poverty and inequality – we have been waiting for several days to hear if we are getting a new Cabinet following the ANC’s elective conference in December. The announcement that ANC deputy president Paul Mashatile had...
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Beyonce breaks all-time Grammy wins record – The Beyonce Show
Pop superstar Beyonce broke the record for most career wins at the Grammy awards on Sunday and was in the running for more, including the prestigious best album accolade. The singer picked up four Grammys, including best dance/electronic album for “Renaissance, bringing her career total to 32. That surpassed the lifetime wins by late classical...
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Kevin Hart to headline Advertising Week Africa at Vodaworld, Johannesburg
The 1st annual Advertising Week Africa is set to take place in Johannesburg this February. Kevin Hart, comedy legend and media mogul is set to headline the event as the keynote speaker. The first-ever Advertising Week Africa will be bringing dynamic speakers that reflect the vibrant African creative sector in their own right starting from...
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Share your Netflix account with family members and be prepared to pay says the streamer
Netflix plans to clamp-down on password sharing and outside usage. The company plans to ask its members or users to pay an extra fee to use the streaming service outside the household for extended periods of time. “A primary location is set by a TV that is signed into your account and is connected to...
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OPINION | The quality of news content and Journalism must be strengthened in 2023 writes Avashnee Moodley
Over the past three years, South Africa has seen many print publications bite the dust. Undoubtedly this has been because some of them couldn’t survive the impact of Covid, but if we’re honest with ourselves, there’s more to it than that. This decline has, in many ways, epitomised the quality of news reporting across the...
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Michelle Obama partners with Audible Original for Podcast series
The Obamas love the media and the media loves the Obamas, Higherground Media, the production company of Former President Barack and Michelle Obama has announced that the former First Lady podcast series is on its way. The former FLOTUS and POTUS’s company tweeted and posted the announcement on Instagram: “We’re excited to announce that The...
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Trends Report: The State we’re in 2023 – Six key trend pillars shaping 2023 according to Flux Trends 
The annual Flux Trend briefing – The State We’re In – is an eagerly awaited executive summary of where the world is, and where it’s going.Using the acronym T.R.E.N.D.S. – representing six trend pillars that will shape how we will live, work and connect in the coming year – Flux not only identifies new pivotal trends but...
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PayFast’s parent company Network International to house payment platforms in Mzansi
Network International has announced that its cloud-based, integrated payment suite for merchants, banks, fintechs and MNOs will be hosted and operated in South Africa from June 2023. The new digital payments platform currently processes over four million transactions per day and over $60bn of digital transactions a year. The Network digital payments platform has at...
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Why hacking yourself regularly is the best way to stay safe
With South Africa being a favoured target for cyber attackers globally, and with the threats growing in both volume and sophistication, local organisations must do more to mitigate against these attacks. In addition to increased automation in threat detection and response, and active threat hunting, carrying out cyber attacks on oneself in order to improve...