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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…
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…
Spaza shop fintech closes gap in $2.8bn cash market
It is estimated that the spaza shop market in South Africa is valued at around R40 billion per year and that 90% or more of the transactions are in cash. This market is growing at around 10% each year. Despite…
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…
20 African startups enter World Bank Group tech acceleration program
Twenty Francophone African tech startups will participate in the L’Afrique Excelle residency in Mali, a full-week boot camp set to kick off the Francophone edition of the World Bank Group’s XL Africa, tech start-up accelerator. From 24 to 30 March,…
Nigerian and Tanzanian students lead Huawei’s ICT competition
Students from Nigeria and Tanzania were the overall joint winners of this year’s Sub Saharan regional finals of Huawei’s global ICT Competition. The winners were announced at the Huawei regional headquarter in Woodmead, Johannesburg. Together with second prize winners, Angola…
FlySafair passengers can now receive their boarding passes via WhatsApp
FlySafair has announced that its passengers will now have the option to send their boarding passes88h to their phones via WhatsApp, once they’ve completed the check-in process. This will be beneficial to passengers who have not made the booking themselves…
Winch Energy lights up 24 villages in Sierra Leone
Winch Energy has announced that it has signed a contract with the Ministry of Energy in Sierra Leone; to provide electricity to 24 towns and villages in northern Sierra Leone through solar mini-grids as part of a public-private partnership project.…
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…
MTN Nigeria rolls out smart feature phone running on KaiOS
MTN has started to roll out its new Smart S 3G phone across all of its African markets. The telco launched MTN Smart, a smart feature phone running on Kai Operating System (KaiOS) in Nigeria. MTN Smart comes with two…
Economics of the fourth industrial revolution
The first industrial revolution spurred on by the textile industry in Britain, brought about new economic dynamics. New industries, new business models, new revenue streams, new labour patterns, and more. Three hundred years later, the fourth industrial revolution (4IR)’s unique…
Spotify preinstalled on all Samsung mobile devices
Spotify will come preinstalled on all of Samsung’s mobile devices from 8 March. This comes after Samsung integrated the music streaming service with its Bixby artificial intelligence (AI) platform and Spotify was named the go-to music service provider of Samsung.…
Why mobile wallets are struggling
Mobile wallets may offer some convenience, but until they offer a broad range of simple, seamless transaction capabilities, and give users more value than that of their cash alone, they will still lack consumer ‘stickiness’. This is according to Kobus…
Tech support scams are up, warns Microsoft
Hackers are always on the lookout for new ways to make more money. Cybercriminals have an impressive arsenal of tools to use in order to retrieve data or money from someone’s network. One of the methods that they are using…
