FBI and Apple investigate massive celebrity nude picture cloud hack

It makes you wonder how secure your information is stored in the cloud with the recent alleged hack and distribution of naked pictures of US celebrities which include Jennifer Lawrence and Rihanna. The FBI and Apple also seem to be left flustered and confused by this recent hack which has received world wide attention. Reports … Read more

How Naspers CEO Koos Bekker beat the New York Times at its own game

Michael Moritz, chairman of Silicon Valley’s famous venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, is one of the professional social media site LinkedIn’s select band of blogging Influencers. His latest contribution has a decidedly South African flavour. He has kindly agreed to allow Biznews to republish it. For the original article and more of Moritz’s insights on … Read more

Communications 101: Social media not PR compliant, witness JP Morgan’s rude wake-up (with Stacy Keach video)

Those worthies within the communications division at US banking group JP Morgan had the best of intentions. But opening yourself up to the Twitterati is a long, long way from sending press releases to well-lunched reporters. JP Morgan triggered such a wave of abuse through its #AskJPM campaign on Twitter that its supposedly breakthrough idea … Read more