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Truecaller eyes out Sub-Saharan Africa’s mobile payment space
Last year March, Truecaller announced its interest in the digital payments segment in India. Today, the company announced a strategic investment into the payment space by acquiring Chillr, India’s first multi-bank payments app that is revolutionising the way people bank.…
Transforming the customer assistance landscape
According to Accenture’s digital consumer survey 2018, a third of people online in China, India, the U.S., Brazil and Mexico plan to buy a stand-alone voice assistant by the end of the year. The prevalence of such devices in homes…
Freshworks accelerates international growth with market expansion in South Africa
Freshworks Inc, a provider of cloud-based business software, today announced an aggressive growth strategy to propel the ambitious expansion of its evolving South African footprint. “Our growth plan for South Africa completely leverages the company’s product strengths, financial capabilities, and…
Africa has potential to revolutionise the energy sector through smart power innovation
Within developing economies, including Africa, there are growing opportunities to implement new technologies and localised energy generation systems, that could lead to innovation that will change how the world generates, stores and distributes power. This is according to Kieran Whyte,…
The SARB will be launching Nelson Mandela commemorative banknotes and coin
In celebration of the first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela’s birth centenary, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will be launching its first commemorative banknote series. These notes will cover all denominations – R10, R20, R50, R100 and R200. As part of…
Collaboration is the key to building organisational resilience more effectively
Today’s world is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. In such an environment, future planning is difficult, if not impossible. As a result, organisations are increasingly focusing on becoming resilient; that is, to be able to anticipate, adapt and respond both…
Cisco Live 2018: Chuck Robbins talks networks of the future
Cisco Live, an annual customer and partner conference hosted by technology company Cisco, is currently taking place at the Orange County Convention Centre in Orlando, Florida from 10 – 14 June 2018. The event presents a unique opportunity for attendees…
Drive your business with the right Customer Management Tools
Do you remember your first car? That great feeling of freedom that came with the ability to drive yourself wherever you wanted or needed to go, without having to ask for a lift, take public transport or cycle or walk.…
Artificial intelligence is here to stay
Artificial intelligence will transform how the world lives and works. Recent announcements by Google have shown just how powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) can become. The change is inevitable – but what steps do countries need to take today to ready…
Welcome to the Future: The analytics age has started
Whether you’re a high-tech start-up or a decades-old retailer, and whether you like it or not, you’re a data company. As enterprises everywhere begin to integrate deeper insights into their operations, those who focus on maximising their data and analytics…
Fourth Edition of Africa Code Week kicks off in Madagascar
The 2018 edition of Africa Code Week (ACW) officially kicked-off in Madagascar this week with its first-part series of Train-the-Trainer (TTT) workshops. More than 200 local teachers and parents received hands-on training on the open-source Scratch learning interface, which will…
Aveng ups desktop performance, improves costs with Datacentrix
Aveng, an infrastructure company with expertise in steel, engineering, manufacturing, mining, public infrastructure and water treatment, has boosted desktop performance and reliability, and reduced related costs, with the assistance of Datacentrix, a provider of high performing and secure ICT solutions.…
Vodafone Zambia’s CEO retires
According to a statement issued by Vodafone Zambia on June 6, the company CEO, Lars Hendrik Stork, has retired. Chairperson, Gilbert Temba, said in a statement that the new CEO would be announced alongside the new Vodafone Zamia ownership and…
From pineapple juice to agtech: Investors hungry for a piece of Africa’s food industry
Africa’s agribusiness and food sector registered strong private equity deal activity during May 2018, according to industry information service Africa Private Equity News. EXEO Capital announced a $6.4-million investment, through its Agri-Vie Fund II, into Capital Fisheries – a Zambian…
Making a case for automation platforms to enable digitalisation
Most executives agree the IT landscape is changing dramatically and if it is, they argue, then how are they supposed to automate what’s in a state of flux? That’s just a recipe to waste time and money by redoing all…
How South African companies can use blockchain to drive business value
Blockchain is emerging as one of today’s most disruptive technologies, with the ability to radically reshape how business is done by enabling secure, efficient and transparent business-to-business transactions. Its predicted to deliver $176 billion additional value by 2025, and it’s…
