News
Announcements from Net Age: new tools, product launches and what the team has been building.
News
Announcements from Net Age: new tools, product launches and what the team has been building.
This is where we share our own news: product launches, new tools and the projects the Net Age team has been building for our clients and for ourselves.
Recent announcements include the new and improved RetailX, the AI powered search behind Crazy Plastics, the launch of blog.gogee.ai as the content platform behind our clients'' articles, and GoGee''s website replays and AI assessment, which let you optimise your website with evidence rather than guesswork.
We have been a Cape Town digital agency since 1999, so this category also holds a long memory of how our work, and the web itself, has changed over the years. For industry news rather than company news, see the Google, social media and online marketing categories.
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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…