Facebook 'in talks to buy' Israeli navigation app Waze

2013 May 12 | 1750 Views
New York - Facebook is in talks on a potential $1bn deal to buy the Israel-based GPS mobile navigation app Waze, The Wall Street Journal reported.The report late on Thursday, citing unnamed so...

Telecel sponsors Zimbabwe's first broadband forum

Google fined after Street View cars gather personal data in Germany

2013 April 24 | 2862 Views
Google must pay a €145,000 fine in Germany for gathering and storing emails, photos, passwords and chat protocols from unprotected Wi-Fi networks with Google Street View cars.The fine was le...

NetOne in broadband expansion drive

Zim man making waves with his online innovation

Zimbabwe ranks low in global ICT index

Facebook founder to visit Nigeria

2013 April 13 | 3501 Views
The founder of Facebook, a social networking website, Mr Mark Zuckerberg, is scheduled to visit Akwa Ibom State in May this year as one of the guest speakers at a youth economic summit organised by th...

Google snaps couple 'having sex' by the side of a highway

2013 April 11 | 6520 Views
Sydney - An Australian couple shot to fame on social media on Thursday after an image of them having sex by the side of a rural highway made it onto Google Street View, sparking speculation it was a ...

Facebook - South African user-base drop by 1 million

2013 April 10 | 1874 Views
Johannesburg - Social networking site Facebook has seen its South African user-base drop by nearly one million in the past six months, according to a report on Monday.Statistics from social ...

Econet introduces a Wi-Fi device to compete with fixed broadband providers

April Fool is dead!

YouTube closes down!

Google April Fools' Day Prank Revealed

Seacom undersea cable outage could last till April

Child pornography goes viral on Facebook

Zuckerberg ranked top chief executive

2013 March 16 | 3163 Views
San Francisco - Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg on Friday was ranked top chief executive in a Glassdoor survey of what current and former employees think of how top bosses are leading companies.Zuc...

Iranian authorities block Gmail, Yahoo VPN access

2013 March 12 | 2947 Views
Tehran - Iranian authorities have blocked many foreign-based virtual private networks, or VPNs, severely restricting access to many websites.The VPNs are illegal in Iran but offered a path for...

Brand Pages Need To Combine Words and Pictures in Facebook News Feed

2013 March 11 | 2450 Views
LONDON - The announcement that Facebook is to carry out a major redesign to its News Feed, including the increased value of images, will present greater opportunities to engage with their customers in...

Google street-view captures couple having sex in an alleyway

2013 March 08 | 12686 Views
UK - A couple was caught engaging in a sex act in a Manchester alleyway, England by Google Street View cameras.The pair were seemingly enjoying a steamy encounter, in what they thought was a ...

Facebook to unveil a new look for its 'newsfeed'

2013 March 02 | 2540 Views
Facebook Inc will unveil a new look for its popular "newsfeed" next week, the latest move by the Web company to revamp key elements of its 1 billion member social network.Facebook will showca...

Facebook CEO 'Zuckerberg' and wife are the 2nd-biggest charitable donors

2013 February 13 | 3626 Views
Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife were the second-biggest charitable donors in the United States last year, appearing behind only billionaire Warren Buffett on a list of the nati...

Man signs $200 contract with daughter (14) to stay off Facebook

2013 February 07 | 5044 Views
A US man from Wellesley, Mass, has struck a five-month deal with his daughter to stay off Facebook for $200. If successful, the teenager will receive $50 on April and $150 in June.To...

Twitter confirms hackers gained access to nearly 250,000 passwords

2013 February 02 | 2692 Views
Anonymous hackers attacked Twitter this week and may have gained access to passwords and other information for as many as 250,000 user accounts, the microblog revealed late on Friday.Twitter ...

Facebook friend demands sex, threatens to kill Zim woman

2013 January 31 | 13198 Views
A Zimbabwean woman claims she has become a victim of a "Facebook rapist."Priviledge Privie Dzomba who is currently based in South Africa apparently became a victim after publicly sharing her...

Nurse spots eye cancer from Facebook picture, saving toddler's life

Teenager arrested after Facebook confession

2013 January 04 | 7191 Views
USA - Police in the coastal city of Astoria, Ore, US, arrested an 18-year-old young man, Jacob Cox-Brown after he allegedly confessed via Facebook that he had been driving drunk on New Year's Eve and ...

FBI disputes hacker group's claim

2012 September 05 | 2391 Views
Washington - The FBI is disputing a computer hacker group's claim that it stole personal identification data on more than one million Apple device owners from an FBI agent's laptop.The FBI sa...

12 million iPhone, iPad users data hacked

2012 September 04 | 2120 Views
Washington - A hacker group has claimed to have obtained personal data from 12 million Apple iPhone and iPad users by breaching an FBI computer, raising concerns about government tracking.The...

The Pirate Bay, co-founder arrested

Facebook makes effort to get rid of fake 'Likes'

Zimbabwe to be hooked to high capacity telecoms pipe

Facebook co-founders dumps 450,000 shares

2012 August 23 | 2439 Views
The 28-year-old billionaire, Facebook's co-founders, Dustin Moskovitz has joined the ranks of major players in the company who have recently unloaded major portions of their stock, the NY Times report...

Facebook shares hit a record low

2012 August 17 | 1683 Views
Facebook shares have hit a record low after a "lock-up" period that prevented some insiders from selling their stakes came to an end.Shares in the social media network plunged to a session low...

Google to sink rankings for websites hit with piracy complaints

2012 August 12 | 1519 Views
San Francisco - Google on Friday said it is tweaking its search formula to give higher priority to legal content and sink rankings for websites hit with piracy complaints."Starting next week, ...

Google extends its online search to email boxes

2012 August 09 | 1923 Views
Google has begun allowing users to extend online searches to include messages stored in accounts at Web-based email service Gmail."Sometimes the best answer to your qu...

Yahoo appoints former Google executive, Marissa Mayer, as new CEO

2012 July 17 | 1099 Views
Yahoo on Monday announced that it has appointed Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, to be its president and chief executive officer (CEO).Mayer will also join Yahoo's board of directors ...

Utande launches new WIMAX broadband service in Zim

Merchants Get Proactive Against Chargebacks with SignatureLink's SecureBuy e-Commerce Solutions

All Zimbabwe ministries now online - Chamisa

Facebook engagement fell by almost half in 6-month period - Poll

2012 June 08 | 1404 Views
A poll released this week by Reuters and Ispos Public Affairs found that just 2 out of 5 Facebook ...

Facebook will 'disappear' in the next decade - Analyst

2012 June 06 | 2040 Views
An analyst according to nydailynews.com has predicted that the social network giant Facebook will "disappear" in "the next five to eight years" time.Eric Jackson, founder of Ironfire Capital,...

Internet set for a major upgrade

2012 June 04 | 1706 Views
Washington - The internet is set for a major upgrade in the coming week. But if all goes well, users won't even know it's happening.The switch occurs at 00:01 GMT on Wednesday, when the intern...

Facebook Inc sued over IPO

2012 May 23 | 1181 Views
Facebook Inc and banks including Morgan Stanley were sued by the social networking leader's shareholders, who claimed the defendants hid Facebook's weakened growth forecasts ahead of its $16 billion i...

Zimra introduces twitter and facebook for complaints and alerts

2012 May 23 | 1425 Views
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is advising members of the public that if, at any various points at the borders, a traveller notice something that is not being done according to the rules, th...

Rihanna s*x tape Facebook scam - be warned!

2012 May 22 | 6290 Views
The new scam about Rihanna s*x tape is trapping users virally. And with that they are trying to insult rihanna. The scam shows the following messages on facebook wall:...

Lendme Zimbabwe introduces airtime eVouchers

2012 May 22 | 1733 Views
Lendme, the mobile airtime credit startup, was officially launched this week and will allow users in Zimbabwe to borrow airtime. Before launch, users could only register accounts. Lendme has now in...

General Motors to pull $10M paid Ads from Facebook - saying they don't work

2012 May 22 | 1222 Views
General Motors is planning to pull $10 million in paid advertising from Facebook, after deciding that paid ads on the site have little impact on consumers' car purchases, according to a GM official....

Telecel slashes data bundle prices, offers 50 percent discounts

2012 May 14 | 1787 Views
TELECEL Zimbabwe has slashed the cost of its data bundles, making them the cheapest on the market. With effect from today, Telecel subscribers will be able to purchase data bundles from 55 me...

Facebook to start charging as it introduces the App Center

2012 May 10 | 3042 Views
The social media giant, Facebook on Wednesday announced the App Center, a new place for people to find social apps. The App Center gives developers an ...

Yahoo shareholder demand company board fires CEO

2012 May 08 | 1003 Views
A Yahoo shareholder on Friday demanded the company's board fire chief executive officer Scott Thompson over his false resume by Monday noon.In a letter to Yahoo board, Daniel Loeb, managing pa...