Absa debuts social banking on Twitter

Absa has launched ChatBanking, the first service in Africa which allows users to conduct day-to-day banking from their Twitter account, without interrupting their session on the social media website. The secure and private service will eventually be rolled out to...

Call for App of the Year entries

Submissions for the MTN Business SA App of the Year Awards 2016 are now open. The App of the Year Awards is a springboard for creative developers and their original solutions. Previous winners of the awards have gone on to launch their apps internationally, been...

JV invests in African infrastructure

General Electric, together with the Mara Group and Atlas Merchant Capital, are leading an initiative to create a joint venture dedicated to investing in the highly underdeveloped African infrastructure sector. The joint venture will seek to invest in infrastructure...

App-athy drives productivity down

Improving productivity continues to be a priority for many organisations and as such, IT transformation is top of the agenda when it comes to boosting business performance. Wimpie van Rensburg, country manager for sub-Saharan Africa at Riverbed Technology, points to a...
HP Inc takes on gaming

HP Inc takes on gaming

HP Inc is taking on the gaming market, with the introduction today of its new OMEN by HP portfolio, built exclusively for gamers. As part of the company’s strategy to reinvent personal systems, it is introducing a unified gaming portfolio based on OMEN by HP...

What stands between SA women and a PhD?

There are a number of factors that present challenges to the South African education system, including a lack of skilled teachers, poor infrastructure and poverty. When it comes to tertiary education, particularly PhDs, these challenges persist. “Manpower South...