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On Thursday, 8 January Chinese regulators said they would investigate Meta’s acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup Manus (Image source: © 123rf )

Artificial Intelligence

Meta's Chinese AI acquisition investigated

10 minutes

Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI looks to online advertising deal – AI-driven ads will be hard for consumers to spot

9 Sep 2025

Matt Deitke originally turned down a lesser offer. Source: X.

Artificial Intelligence

Meta breaks records with $250m offer to 24-year-old AI prodigy

5 Aug 2025

Source: © Campaign India Andy Jassy, President and CEO of Amazon, has been named the Cannes Lions 2025 Media Person of the Year

Cannes Lions

#Cannes2025 Media Person of the Year to Amazon president and CEO

18 Jun 2025

Social isn’t a billboard: branding in the age of algorithms

Social Media

Social isn’t a billboard: branding in the age of algorithms

Aishwarya Bedessy, Issued by Ignition Group 30 May 2025

Is Meta too big for its own good? What the latest antitrust trial says about big tech's future

Social Media

Is Meta too big for its own good? What the latest antitrust trial says about big tech's future

Issued by We Do Digital 22 Apr 2025

Advertising

Google's latest antitrust loss in the US raises stakes for Big Tech

Rob Nicholls 23 Apr 2025

Social Media

Will Meta be forced to sell Instagram and WhatsApp in FTC trial?

16 Apr 2025

Source: © 123rf Mark Baldwin, CEO of , a web design and digital marketing agency, weighs in on the biggest social media platform rebrands of all time

Branding

Social media rebrands: The failure - X, the insipid - Meta and the success - Instagram

Mark Baldwin 15 Apr 2025

Social Media

The evolving battle over social media moderation: Free speech vs regulation

Grant Lapping 25 Mar 2025

Technology

Microsoft, Meta CEOs defend AI spending after DeepSeek stuns tech world

30 Jan 2025

Beverley Houston, director at Be-cause Integrated Communications says Meta’s decision to end third-party fact-checking on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads is bad news for brands (image supplied)

Media Freedom

EXCLUSIVE: Meta's farewell to fact-checking; 6 recommendations for brands

Beverley Houston 17 Jan 2025

Source: © World Kings Meta's platforms Facebook and Instagram, will no longer implement a fact-checking policy, instead relying on community notes

Media Freedom

Meta's Zuckerberg's shift on fact-checking: A "sprint" to appease a new president?

Danette Breitenbach 16 Jan 2025

Instagram launches Teen Accounts to pour water on legal inferno

Mobile & Apps

Instagram launches Teen Accounts to pour water on legal inferno

Lindsey Schutters 18 Sep 2024

Social Media

Zuckerberg regrets bowing to government pressure on Covid-19 censorship

30 Aug 2024

Meta is making full use of its GPU investment by rapidly developing its AI offering in WhatsApp.

Mobile & Apps

WhatsApp taking the AI lead while Google and Apple stall on devices

Lindsey Schutters 5 Jul 2024

Meta has unleashed its AI assistant into all of its social media apps.

Mobile & Apps

Meta slides AI assistant into DMs in 7 African countries

Lindsey Schutters 22 Apr 2024

Understanding venture capital: Is it the best funding option for your small business?

Funding

Understanding venture capital: Is it the best funding option for your small business?

29 Feb 2024

AI hardware could be a bigger power consumption problem than crypto mining. Source: Microsoft Designer.

Hardware

OpenAI is getting into the hardware business in the AI arms race

Lindsey Schutters 29 Jan 2024

An open letter to Facebook from a very frustrated marketer

Social Media

An open letter to Facebook from a very frustrated marketer

Sarah Britten 6 Nov 2023

Research

Report: Significant increase in journalist response rates to pitches

19 Oct 2023

Milpark's new course to meet rising demand for risk managers

Higher Education

Milpark's new course to meet rising demand for risk managers

Issued by Milpark Education 14 Sep 2023

Magriet Groenewald is a social media expert. Source: Supplied.

Social Media

Should you get verified on Instagram to build your personal brand?

19 Sep 2023

Medtech

For minorities, biased AI algorithms can damage almost every part of life

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam 18 Sep 2023

Threads will add significant value to PR

Social Media

Threads will add significant value to PR

Issued by Bullion PR & Communication 30 Aug 2023

Source: © Dexerto Threads growth has slowed by 90% in August to an average of 440,000 new users per day

Social Media

Threads growth slows by 90%

7 Aug 2023

Threads by Instagram. Source: Supplied

Mobile & Apps

Threads dethrones ChatGPT as fastest consumer app to 100 million

Lindsey Schutters 12 Jul 2023

Image supplied. Tara Turkington CEO of Flow Communications asks to "Thread" or not to "Thread"?...

Social Media

To "Thread" or not to "Thread"?

Tara Turkington 11 Jul 2023

Image supplied. Lebo Moerane, joint head of social at VMLY&R South Africa, takes a first look at Threads and what brands should be taking note of

Social Media

8 considerations brands need to take note of when looking at Threads

Lebo Moerane 10 Jul 2023

Meta takes on Twitter with Threads and wins in the market

Mobile & Apps

Meta takes on Twitter with Threads and wins in the market

Lindsey Schutters 6 Jul 2023

Source: © Omkar Patyane What does Meta Verified mean for agencies offering social media management as a service?

Digital

Meta joins paid verifications, so what now?

Nombulelo Malinga 21 Feb 2023

Big tech is firing employees by the thousands. Why? And how worried should we be?

Technology

Big tech is firing employees by the thousands. Why? And how worried should we be?

Nathalie Collins, Jeff Volkheimer, Paul Haskell-Dowland 15 Feb 2023

#BizTrends2023: Retail's reality check

Trends

#BizTrends2023: Retail's reality check

Howard Saunders 17 Jan 2023

Joseph Neusu says WhatsApp is going to be one of the hottest digital marketing trends in 2023

Mobile

#BizTrends2023: The rise of the WhatsApp economy

Joseph Neusu 17 Jan 2023

Daniel Orelowitz, Managing Director at Training Force

Trends

#BizTrends2023: Making a big impact with skills development that is future-fit and fit for purpose

Daniel Orelowitz 9 Jan 2023

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Technology

The metaverse offers challenges and possibilities for the future of the retail industry

Omar H. Fares 4 Jan 2023

Social Media

Mark Zuckerberg can sack 11,000 workers but shareholders can't dump him: it's called 'management entrenchment'

Mark Humphery-Jenner 14 Nov 2022

Social Media

Meta to retrench thousands of employees

9 Nov 2022

Social Media

Why Meta's share price collapse is good news for the future of social media

Renaud Foucart 7 Nov 2022

Social Media

Why Elon Musk's first week as Twitter owner has users flocking elsewhere

Diana Bossio 4 Nov 2022

Tourism and the metaverse: Towards widespread use of virtual travel?

Technology

Tourism and the metaverse: Towards widespread use of virtual travel?

Naïma Aïdi 17 Aug 2022

Digital

Instagram's new NFT expansion revolutionary for digital creators

10 Aug 2022

South African Social Media Landscape Report 2022 launch

Events & Conferencing

South African Social Media Landscape Report 2022 launch

Issued by Ornico 22 Jun 2022

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Media

Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg departs company

2 Jun 2022

Are we Zooming towards the metaverse?

Digital

Are we Zooming towards the metaverse?

Kevin Welman 19 May 2022

Meta opens its first physical retail store, Meta Store

Retail

Meta opens its first physical retail store, Meta Store

11 May 2022

WhatsApp emoji reactions and 2GB file sharing launches

Services

WhatsApp emoji reactions and 2GB file sharing launches

9 May 2022