Mandy De Waal writes about recent controversies with Google SA’s policies and apparent discrepancies in their reseller certification program…

Google South Africa set the cat among the pigeons when country manager Stafford Masie revealed intentions to moderate SA’s search industry, saying some e-marketing companies were committing “fraud” against customers.
Masie stated “Google-certified agencies” would be introduced in [...]

There’s a full page ad in this month’s WIRED Magazine for a media group in North Africa called TwoFour54.com an integrated, state-of-the-art environment that supports and inspires content creators to flourish in the Middle East and North Africa. Intrigued, I did some research to find out more about the company. I didn’t find [...]

What are some of the best Africa related podcasts? Well, we’re quite partial to our own Appfricast, but if our show isn’t your thing, here are eight other podcasts (in no particular order) worth following. We found several shows that were either apparently defunct or that updated too infrequently to be counted. For instance the [...]

Google Friend Connect is the latest in a trend of big media companies who are ‘opening up their users data’ to help make the web more social. Facebook recently scored big by securing a deal that would allow Digg, Hulu and Discovery users to sign up and authenticate using their existing accounts. This is huge [...]

South Africa’s Optimal Energy wants to bring electric cars into mass production in Africa. It’s starting with the innovative and stylish Joule…

The entire world hopes to start driving electric cars soon, and Africa, despite its reputation for poor economies, is no exception. Luckily, a South African company called Optimal Energy is working to [...]

Zoopy, the South African social media website has undergone a massive make-over. According to the companies blog:

Almost a year ago to the day, we launched the second version of Zoopy; the Zoopy that many of you have come to know and use over the last 12 busy months. The site was a massive overhaul of [...]

So this week Appfrica is rolling out a new mash-up project called FricaFact. This one is all about educating the masses about Africa using social media tools…specifically Twitter. The app is pretty simple. Right now it displays a different fact each day about the continent, it’s countries, it’s people, it’s culture. Want to [...]

South Africa’s De Beers is in the middle of a heated dispute with the U.S. based domain registrar Joker.com who’s users deployed spoof ads mocking De Beers on the New York Time’s website. The ad in question announced that diamond purchases “will enable us to donate a prosthetic for an African whose hand was lost [...]

In some parts of Africa the media is horribly flawed. Reporters ignore factual information in favor for what wins them government deals, protects officials or serves some other self-serving purpose and transparency is a myth. This is because unlike in many democracies, the media isn’t completely insulated from the state. That is [...]

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