Customers of South African bank, First National Bank (FNB), will now be able to renew their car license on their mobile phones. This is thanks to the recently launched Nav Car platform on the FNB App.
Users simply have to scan their license disk with their smartphone and then will...
Leading academics, CIOs, regulators, NGOs, service providers, and EduTech entrepreneurs will convene at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg on the 17th of March 2016 for the upcoming 2016 Education Innovation Summit.
The Summit, which has been organised by IT News Africa and sponsored by Telkom, will see these leaders discuss...
South African financial regulators have been taking a renewed critical look at Crowd1 - a nebulous, highly controversial and popular Spanish (or Russian) company that claims to be a networking marketing firm, among other things. Crowd1 has already been banned in Namibia and the Philippines, and other countries, under...
Healthcare and technology executives will convene at the Protea Fire & Ice Hotel in Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, today for the African Innovator Healthcare Summit. The Summit will address the theme – “Transforming Healthcare with Technology.”
Africa is constantly evolving, and with it so is the healthcare and technology sector.
From location based mobile applications...
WorldRemit, a digital money transfer service has added Android Pay to its service. This will allow them to offer a new way for WorldRemit’s Android Pay users to send money internationally and reach millions using mobile money accounts.
In a move which will bring together the leading players in mobile payments...
Digital money transfer service, WorldRemit, and the National Bank of Kenya (NBK) have launched a partnership to enable Kenyans living abroad to make instant transfers home. WorldRemit users can now make instant bank deposits to NBK accounts held in both Kenyan Shillings and US Dollars, as well as send...
The impact of technology on education is one that can not be overlooked. Not only does having technology in the classroom enhance learning but it also improves the education experience and increases the level of interaction.
E-learning in Africa has come a long way and with the growth of the...
SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) is looking towards assisting the mining industry in Africa in order to help counter the range of complex challenges they face through innovative industry-specific technology. This was announced to the SAP Africa Mining Forum, being held in Johannesburg this week in conjunction with SAP Russia....
FNB Life has seen a significant increase in the number of millennials between the ages of 31 and 33 exclusively taking out life policies on digital channels.
Lee Bromfield, CEO of FNB Life, says “Our omni-channel strategy which enables us to service customers through various channels of their choice, including...
It's Christmas time, and what's not to like about Christmas. Time off work, time with family, time to completely unwind and refresh yourself for the new year ahead are all aspects of the festive period we are about to enter. But let's not forget what Christmas is really all...
Want to send, or request, money? Add a recipient. Enter an amount. Press send. Boom. It couldn't be easier.
Virgin Money has launched a peer-to-peer payment app called Spot. The app lets you transfer funds from your linked bank account to a friend’s linked bank account, but without the fuss...
Mukuru has partnered with EcoCash, a Zimbabwean mobile money provider, to offer a quick and easy way of sending money to Zimbabwe. The partnership was facilitated and structured by Cassava, a wholly-owned financial technology (FinTech) subsidiary of the Econet Group.
Mukuru customers in South Africa can now send money instantly...
Trishula Pathways, a South African based Healthcare technology firm launched their flagship product known as the African Healthcare Portal, on the 22nd of November at the JoziHub event space in Milpark, Johannesburg.
The portal is the brain child of Trishula Pathways CEO; Dr Yushavia Govender, who created the platform to...
South African bank, First National Bank (FNB), announced on Tuesday 10 October 2017 that the company's "Bank Your Change" feature has allowed FNB customers to save over R1 billion in the past 14 months from small change when shopping.
‘Bank Your Change’, a free feature which can be activated by...
Education in Nigeria has had a paradigm shift in the last decade. Although, traditional school system has received wide spread acceptance across the various ethnic classifications and learning beyond the shores of a conventional classroom has been embraced as well.
There has always been a mass outcry on the decay that has plunged the traditional...
The recent announcement by the Gauteng provincial government to initiate a paperless classroom project as well as the Western Cape government’s commitment to spend R1.2-billion to implement e-learning in 1 250 local schools, is a significant step toward bridging the education gap in South Africa.
This is according to Athol...
