Raising money for kids at Telkom 947 Cycle Challenge

More than 30 000 cyclists will participate in the 20th edition of Joburg’s biggest cycling event, the Telkom 947 Cycle Challenge will be held on Sunday 20 November. As part of its effort to raise funds for the much needed children in road safety initiative,...

Zoona wins at African entrepreneurship awards

Zoona, an African mobile payments business that helps communities thrive, by enabling emerging entrepreneurs to provide much needed financial services in their communities, has accepted an award for Social Entrepreneurship at the Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship...

Cash, PoS, digital collections should be complementary

Norway, Sweden and Denmark are examples of countries moving towards becoming true cashless societies, in which retailers or petrol stations won’t be obliged to accept cash payments. Yet cash still accounts for about 85% of global consumer transactions and in...

IoT could drive new insurance models

For insurers, the Internet of Things(IOT) can provide value in the form of new insurance models and products based on deeper insight into the customer’s needs, writes William Mzimba, chief executive South and sub-Saharan Africa at Accenture. The rapid increase...

FirstBank increases mobile app security

FirstBank has launched its updated iOS mobile banking application with fingerprint biometrics capability and authentication from Entersekt. FirstBank is Colorado’s second largest bank and the third largest privately held bank in the nation. FirstBank has...

Smart locker could boost chronic healthcare

A South African entrepreneur is preparing to launch an innovative new automated chronic medicine dispensing system in a pilot project for the national Department of Health. “The Technovera Locker system, is a most deserving winner in the Samsung South Africa...