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Visa and MyGate ink partnership to expand Visa Checkout
Visa has partnered with online payments platform MyGate to process Visa Checkout in South Africa. Managing Director of MyGate, Dan Edmiston said: “We’re very pleased to be partnering with Visa as we aim to create enjoyable online payment experiences that…
E-agriculture: How ICT is taking farming into the future
Ahmed Ibrahim Wakea Allah is a farmer in Sudan. By taking part in an e-agriculture project, he quadrupled his wheat yield in just one year and went from making a loss of 8000 Sudanese pounds in the 2013/14 season to…
Caterpillar unveils free e-learning website for technicians in Africa
Caterpillar has launched the pilot-phase of the Technicians for Africa Project, an e-learning website for people who aspire to become a technician in Nigeria, Mozambique and DR Congo. The website, which is available in French, Portuguese and English, is leveraging Caterpillar’s…
Top 7 tips to protect yourself from cybercrime
Security software, processes and systems are not enough to beat cybercriminals. They’re clever, they’re focused and they have time. South Africa is one of only 28 countries to have a cyber-security policy in place, but it is widely criticised. We…
Business Connexion Group acquires ANCO-IT
Business Connexion Group has announced the acquisition of ANCO-IT (Pty) Ltd, a leading provider of business application solutions exclusively using Oracle Applications. Founded in 2006, ANCO are specialists in Oracle ERP business enterprise solutions. “This acquisition is significant for Business…
Star Wars Battlefront Review
Star Wars Battlefront has finally arrived on the PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. The title has been developed by EA Dice and published by Electronic Arts. The game is essentially a first-person and third-person shooter (players can switch from…
PlayStation 4 sales surpass 30.2 million units
Sony has revealed that the PlayStation 4 (PS4) computer entertainment system has cumulatively sold through more than 30.2 million units worldwide as of November 22. According to Sony, the console continues to demonstrate the fastest and strongest growth in PlayStation hardware…
Female tech entrepreneur develops on-demand network for financial advice
Riovic, which is a virtual financial advice service in South Africa, will – according to the startup – change financial services forever in South Africa. According to founder Naledi Mokoena: “The startup can be referred to as the Uber of Finance…
Investment in Africa has never been higher
Investment in Africa has never been higher. According to the World Bank, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the region hit a record $60 billion by the middle of this year. And yet, many multinational companies looking to expand across the…
Huawei launches Green Energy Solution
AfricaCom 2015 saw Huawei Technologies introduce two new major solutions and partnerships: The Lampsite Partnership with mobile operator, Cell C was announced and the Telecom Green Energy Solution was introduced to exhibition delegates and media. The Migrate towards Simplicity (MTS)…
Merck to launch HIV monitoring system for Africa
Merck, during the course of November 2015, hosted a discussion with researchers to discuss the intention to launch its Muse Auto CD4/CD4% System, a portable instrument for monitoring the progression of the HIV/AIDS virus, throughout Africa. According to the the company,…
How to protect yourself from Digital Disasters
When we lose precious information, whether to a system crash, hard drive failure or even to hackers, it can feel like we are losing parts of our lives. Even with the advancement of technology in the past decade, much of…
Microsoft outlines Office 2016 apps and features
According to Microsoft, the release of Office 2016 is one of the major ways in which the company is realising its ambitious goal of reinventing productivity and business processes in this mobile-first, cloud-first era. This, as technological advancement and trends…
Top reasons to consider mobility in your industrial operation
In recent years, dramatic changes in the global manufacturing plant landscape have compelled organisations to respond to a new set of challenges, including an increasing number of casual users requiring secure, on-demand access to plant data; more flexible and alternative…
Hitachi Data Systems Honored for Innovation
Hitachi Data Systems revealed that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere as a 2015 Cloud Computing Storage Excellence Award winner, presented by TMC’s Cloud Computing Magazine. The Cloud Storage Excellence Award recognises companies that…
South Africa: Vodacom & Neotel merger placed on hold
According to a report via TelecomPaper, Vodacom has begun talks with South African operator Neotel regarding revising the structure of the proposed R7-billion takeover. The report additionally revealed that Vodacom had asked that a Competition Tribunal hearing relating to the deal…
