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• Stay Online - Stay In Business

  In the latest case of retail brick and mortar stores struggling to compete in an increasingly e-commerce focused environment, US toy giant "Toys 'R' Us" has filed for bankruptcy…

• 2017 Internet Trends To Look Out For

  Since 2001 Mary Meeker has been delivering annual web trend reports, shedding some light on what direction the internet trend scale will take throughout the year. This years…

• DMOZ Officially Closes Doors

  In 1998, a new web directory launched in a challenge to the then pre-eminent Yahoo directory. Although it went through a few name changes and owners in the next few years, it was…

• .Africa Domains Available Soon

  After years of legal challenges, the ZA Central Registry will finally be able to make the .Africa generic top level domain (gTLD) available to the public. ICANN, (the Internet…

• Browsers Warn Users Of Insecure Log-In Pages

  As of the next update to Google's Chrome browser, (version 56) which will release by the end of this month, and the newest version of Firefox, browsers will warn users when…

• Google Plans Mobile First Indexing

  According to Google, the majority of people are more likely to search for information using a mobile device. It's certainly no secret that a sites mobile friendliness is important…

• Real-Time Penguin Update Launches

  Finally, after what seems like years (in fact it has been years), Google has announced the release of the newest, and last, Penguin algorithm update. It's the last one, because as…

• Digital Advertising Spend Growth Continues

  According to a report published earlier this month by global media network company Carat, advertising spend on digital media could become as much as 27% of the total global media…

• Microsoft Acquiring LinkedIn

  Microsoft recently made a remarkably large bid to claim space in the social networking sphere with their proposal to purchase LinkedIn, (the worlds largest professional social…

• Microsoft To Drop IE8 Support

  Internet Explorer 8, first released 5 years ago, is still one of the most frequently used web browsers, installed on more than 20% of PCs. It also still accounts for around 6% of…

• Google Takeover Rumours Send Twitter’s Stock Up

  Well, it isn’t the freshest rumour around, but more recent speculation on a potential takeover bid by Google caused Twitter’s stock to rise almost 4.8%, ending on a 52 week high.…

• South Africa Online - By The Numbers

  As technology advances in even bigger leaps from year to year, it becomes easier to get more of the world’s population online. Internet penetration – that is, the number of people…