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Meta
Sept 28, 2023

Meta ups the ante on AI use for social media

During its Meta Connect 2023 event, the firm released AI tools, smart glasses and mixed reality headsets.

3:30
TikTok
Sept 8, 2023

TikTok throws weight behind SA’s booming creator economy

TikTok for Business witnesses rapid growth, as more SA businesses and content creators embrace the short-form video platform.

1:10
Arctic Wolf
Sept 6, 2023

Webinar: Get wise to social engineering scams

Arctic Wolf and ITWeb will host a webinar on 14 September to help organisations avoid social engineering scams.

2:20
Meta
Aug 23, 2023

Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads app heads to desktop

Meta starts rolling out the desktop version of its text-based social media platform, in an attempt to entice users to return.

2:10

Health dept embraces WhatsApp for sex education

The health department turns to the messaging app to provide sexual reproductive and health information to young people.

3:50
Innovo Networks
Aug 4, 2023

Harnessing the power of social listening data

Monitoring and analysing customer sentiment conversations, across social media and online channels, can be done with speed and accuracy.

4:10
GovChat
Aug 2, 2023

GovChat dream turned into ‘nightmare’, says founder

Eldrid Jordaan decries the state of the start-up he founded, reflecting on the next phase in the GovChat versus Facebook squabble.

2:30
Surfshark
Jul 28, 2023

Africa sees political internet shutdowns spike in H1

Protests and political turmoil cause an increase in African countries imposing internet restrictions in the first half of 2023.

3:00
Twitter
Jul 24, 2023

Elon Musk rebrands Twitter to ‘X’

We shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds, says the billionaire in a tweet announcing the rebranding.

3:00
Meta
Jul 20, 2023

Meta’s Threads sees plummeting user engagement

A week since its launch, Threads is down to 23.6 million active daily users, or about 22% of Twitter’s audience.

3:50

SA tourism: This is how we get back on our feet

SA’s deteriorating infrastructure and high crime rate is proving to be counterproductive to the good promotional work being done in the sector, says Prof Elmarie Slabbert, director of the research unit TREES at the North-West University.

2:50
Meta
Jul 19, 2023

Microsoft, Meta open AI model for commercial use

The AI model, Llama 2, will be distributed by Microsoft through its Azure cloud service and will run on the Windows OS.