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Delete Facebook, says WhatsApp Co-Founder
In a rare public appearance on Wednesday, 13 March 2019 at Stanford University, WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton urged students to delete their accounts from the social network Facebook. This was despite his having sold his own company to Mark Zuckerburg’s…
Digital education boost for South Africa’s poorest pupils
In a boost for South Africa’s ailing education system, business heavyweights are backing a plan to place a fully resourced e-learning tablet in the hands of one million of the poorest pupils within the next five years. Already MTN, Oxford…
Trump’s proposed budget slashes Kenya’s aid funding
The United States is set to reduce aid funds given to Kenya by more than 50 percent in the 2020 financial year that begins in October. President Donald Trump’s proposed budget issued on Monday calls for deep cuts in aid…
Facebook loses chief product officer and Whatsapp head
Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg has announced the resignation of the company’s Chief Product Officer, Chris Cox, and the head of WhatsApp, Chris Daniels. Cox has been with Facebook for more than a decade and currently oversees the company’s core suite…
Kenya gets clean energy boost
The Department for International Development’s Transforming Energy Access programme has already helped people and businesses across Africa cut 2 million tonnes of carbon emissions and improve the lives of 3.2 million low-income people. It has also leveraged $359 million worth…
Investec and BankservAfrica reveal prototype of blockchain-based identity system
At the recent Blockchain Africa conference in Johannesburg, Investec, in collaboration with BankservAfrica and uPort, demonstrated a digital identity system anchored in the Ethereum blockchain. The initiative was born in the digital identity working group of the SA Financial Blockchain…
Rwandan entrepreneurs benefit from Alibaba training programme
Alibaba Business School, Alibaba Group’s university, last week hosted 30 Rwanda-based entrepreneurs at the company’s global headquarter in Hanghzou to learn from Alibaba’s experience and the tools needed to run successful business in the digital era. This was the first…
Frost & Sullivan announces findings of global Silver Peak sponsored global SD-WAN survey
Global market research and consulting firm, Frost & Sullivan, has recently announced the findings of a global end-user market survey sponsored by leading software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution provider, Silver Peak. The survey offers insights into enterprise IT decision…
Big names behind SiSebenza bringing change to South Africa economy
SiSebenza, the new South African business that is driving social and economic change in South Africa, is already disrupting the local market through its work with global collaborative workspace provider WeWork. SiSebenza is supporting WeWork’s drive to enter the African…
Cortex Logic CEO awarded AI Leader Of The Year
South African based Artificial Intelligence Software & Solutions veteran and founder of Cortex Logic, awarded premium accolade at Africa’s Tech Week event, underlying a life dedicated to AI and Data Science Innovation. Dr Ludik is an African based smart technology…
SYSPRO sponsors IoT Forum Africa 2019
SYSPRO has come on-board as a sponsor of the IoT Forum Africa 2019, which is set to take place on 26 – 27 March 2019 at the Gallagher Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa. Returning for the third year, IOTFA2019 will…
Africa’s TMT sector continues to show impressive growth
Global mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) activity in tech and telecoms rose to USD 439 billion in 2018 as transformations within the sector continued and the emergence of disruptive cloud, mobile, social and big data analytics technologies drove deal making. The…
Huawei set to roll out Y6 Prime device in Kenya
The Huawei Y6 Prime 2019 is set to be the Chinese device maker’s second budget smartphone to be launched in the country this year, after the launch of another Y-series smartphone, the Huawei Y7 Prime 2019. When it launches next…
Apple expected to launch television and video service
Apple Inc on Monday invited media to a March 25 event at the Steve Jobs Theater on its campus in Cupertino, California, where it is expected to launch a television and video service. Sources previously told Reuters that the company…
Intelligent automation unlocks a myriad of opportunities for business of all sizes
The hysteria two decades ago surrounding the millennium bug, Y2K, highlights how since then business and people – both from personal and work standpoint – have changed their views and interactions with technology. While in the past, technology was largely…
Poor customer experiences will destroy 30% of digital business projects – Gartner
Gartner predicts that, by 2020, poor customer experiences will destroy 30% of digital business projects. Will yours be one of them? What does it mean to be customer-centric? Customer-centric organisations understand the unique problems and expectations of their customers as well as the context…
