Tax implications in the new budget

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan stated in the 2016 Budget that South Africa has built one of the most effective tax authorities in the world. He emphasised that the electronic filing platforms and the normal tax collection mechanisms make personal tax revenue...

The real reasons behind cloud adoption

International Data Corporation (IDC) multi-client study, “CloudView 2016”, shows that 58% of all organisations surveyed are embracing cloud, using public or private cloud for more than one or two small applications or workloads, up from 24% 14 months ago....

Disruption, innovation for P2P mobile money transfers

The global user base for person-to-person (P2P) mobile money transfers will increase from 192,66-million users in 2014 (domestic and international) to 1,61-billion in 2019, according to global analyst firm Ovum. Ovum’s new m-payments forecast shows that the...

Joburg offers R5m in innovation prizes

With prizes valued at R5-million worth of support including R1m for the winner and R350 000 for two runners up and a boot camp for the top 100 ideas, innovators might just want to share your great digital ideas that can transform their community. The City of...

A roadmap for actionable cognitive systems

While the adoption and use of many of the technologies making up cognitive systems have been in place for several years, the emergence of cognitive software platforms and cognitively enabled applications has happened only recently. Cognitive systems in general are...

Fintech startup now enables 1 000 SMEs

Following a successful beta programme, which included just over 500 merchants actively transacting on the platform and growing in double-digits every month and its official launch in October 2015, Yoco is one of the fastest growing payments companies in South Africa....