Black Friday card sales reached 4,8m

Debit and credit card transactions reached 4,8-million during this year’s Black Friday. This represents a 4% year-on-year growth on 2017’s 4,7-million, according to BankservAfrica, Africa’s largest automated payments clearing house...

VALR launches digital asset trading platform in SA

VALR has announced that it is launching a new digital asset trading platform in South Africa, leveraging Bittrex’s technology, to offer customers an advanced trading option. VALR is launching with a simple buy/sell feature, allowing customers to seamlessly and...

Beware fitness apps that steal money instead

Multiple apps posing as fitness-tracking tools were caught misusing Apple’s Touch ID feature to steal money from iOS users, according to security company ESET. The payment mechanism used by the apps is swift and unexpected, activated while victims are scanning...

Tech-policy hackathon looks for solutions

Africa’s young civil servants are the key to revitalising governance and delivering more efficient and equitable public services using innovative frontier technologies. This is the word from Maria Ramos, Absa Group chief executive and commissioner for the...
All the winners from the HP Partner Awards …

All the winners from the HP Partner Awards …

HP Inc named its top partners at an industry event last night, rewarding resellers, distributors and individuals for helping the company to achieve well above-inflation growth in South Africa, and a massive 19% in Africa. The PC and printer vendor reiterated its...

Quora breach exposes 100m users

Are you one of the 100-million people who have used the Quora question and answer site, and could have had your data compromised as a result? The latest high-profile breach affecting millions of people around the world has seen data including names, passwords and...