Huawei celebrates digital talent in Africa
Huawei recently hosted the prestigious Regional Finals of its 2024/2025 ICT Competition and Summit at Huawei Office Park in Johannesburg, bringing together technology talent, educators and policy makers from across sub-Saharan Africa in a celebration of digital...
Meet the dire wolves brought back from extinction
On October 1 2024, for the first time in human history, Colossal Biosciences successfully restored a once-eradicated species through the science of de-extinction. After a more than 10 000 year absence, the company returned the dire wolf to earth. From a longstanding...
Compute power makes AI work
Kathy Gibson reports from Pinnacle Tech Tour - Artificial intelligence (AI) is the word on everyone's lips, but customers can't get any value from it without the right hardware stack. JP De Villiers, senior account manager at SuperMicro, points out that the vendor has...
Pinnacle takes aim at the enterprise
Kathy Gibson reports from Pinnacle Tech Tour - Pinnacle is growing its enterprise business, with a full range of services and solutions that aim to help resellers address the full datacentre stack. The company has been growing its enterprise product and solution...
Electric vehicles enter a new era
In 2024, automakers will continue to wrestle with shifts caused by software and electrification's increasing roles creating a new phase for electric vehicles (EVs), according to Gartner. "New OEM incumbents want to heavily redefine the status quo in automotive," says...
The alarming cost of combating cybercrime
With organisations losing head-spinning figures to cyberattacks, the global cybercrime cost has snowballed over the years - and it will hit $9,2-trillion in 2024. According to data from Stocklytics.com, this is $1-trillion more than last year and the figure is...
iPhone drives more than half of Apple revenue
iPhone sales generated $69,7-billion, or 58% of Apple's total revenue, in the first quarter of 2024. This marks the highest proportion of revenue attributed to iPhone sales since the first quarter of 2021. Reflecting on the Stocklytics findings, financial analyst...
Ransomware still the main threat for SMEs
In 2023, nearly 50% of malware detections for SMBs were keyloggers, spyware and stealers, malware that attackers use to steal data and credentials. Attackers subsequently use this stolen information to gain unauthorised remote access, extort victims, deploy...
Nvidia’s stock value soars by $400bn in a month
After ending 2023 as the best S&P 500 performer with a whopping 236% gain, Nvidia continues breaking records and fuelling the AI stock market rally, say analysts AltIndex.com, adding that after reporting better than expected Q4 2024 results the US chipmaker added...
The ‘must-have’ for all game companies
The mobile gaming market is already bigger than the combined console and PC gaming markets so, consequently, mobile gaming expertise is a must-have for all game companies, say analysts, GlobalData. The research firm's latest thematic report - Mobile Gaming - reveals...
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Proothveerajh appointed LexisNexis MD
Videsha Proothveerajh has been appointed as MD of legal technology company, LexisNexis South Africa. She succeeds Billy Last, MD for the last 26 years, who is retiring at the end of November 2019. Proothveerajh officially joined the business in October 2019 and will...
Everybody loves Black Friday … especially cybercriminals
According to research from Black Friday Global, South Africans are planning on spending around R1 735 per person in both online and brick-and-mortar stores this Black Friday, 29 November 2019. By Heino Gevers, cybersecurity expert at Mimecast The research also shows...
MTN gears up for Black Friday promotion
With Black Friday being the most anticipated shopping day of the year, MTN is gearing up to offer customers bigger deals. "This year is MTN's 25th anniversary - there is a lot that we look back on and celebrate," says Jacqui O'Sullivan, Executive for Corporate Affairs...
Cell C certified as a top employer
Cell C has been certified as a Top Employer in South Africa. Top Employer Certification is awarded to companies that have succeeded in creating working environments that encourage and nurture the empowerment and professional development of their employees. The Top...
Dell adds on-demand services
Dell Technologies is introducing Dell Technologies On Demand, a set of consumption-based and as-a-service offerings. As part of this new offering, the company is expanding its extensive flexible consumption portfolio to support Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and the new...
Retail success in 2020 will be defined by value
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How to keep customer loyalty after Black Friday
While Black Friday may be a highlight for consumers, it is also a day many retailers dread. They not only need to prepare for record sales and increased demand, but also need to focus on keeping customers happy, which is no easy feat, says Merchants South Africa's...
MTN Zakhele Futhi lists on the JSE’s Empowerment Segment
MTN Zakhele Futhi has listed on the Empowerment Segment of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). MTNZF is a ring-fenced special purpose vehicle aimed at facilitating investment by previously disadvantaged South Africans in MTN Group Limited (MTN). MTNZF holds...
Common attacks to look out for this festive season
Sabric (South African Banking Risk Information Centre), has shared the tactics criminals will likely use to defraud people this festive season. On behalf of the banking industry, Sabric, aims to ensure that uses protect their hard-earned cash. "Sabric encourages...
Infobip simplifies vehicle license renewals over WhatsApp
Infobip has enabled WhatsApp Business API for ChatFin, which recently introduced its ChatBack platform ChatBack. The platform simplifies consumers everyday tasks by providing rich content customer dialogue over WhatsApp delivering the underlying capability for the...
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Junior Developer (.Net) at Parvana Recruitment
About our client:Our client, a specialised IT firm, partners with organisations to tackle substantial enterprise-level business, system, or project challenges. Their approach combines a proactive "start-now" philosophy with agile development and just-in-time design...
IT Supporter at DSV – Western Cape Cape Town
DSV - Global transport and logisticsIn 1976, ten independent hauliers joined forces and founded DSV in Denmark. Since then, DSV has evolved to become the world's 3rd largest supplier of global solutions within transport and logistics. Today, we add value to our...
Senior Software Developer – Gauteng Johannesburg
Our Client is seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Developer to join their IT team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the development and support of our .NET webform application and C# services, ensuring the reliability and performance of our systems....
Junior Developer (.Net) at Parvana Recruitment – Western Cape Cape Town
About our client:Our client, a specialised IT firm, partners with organisations to tackle substantial enterprise-level business, system, or project challenges. Their approach combines a proactive "start-now" philosophy with agile development and just-in-time design...
IT Help Desk Support at phoenix47
Job Description: This is a superb opportunity to join a fast-growing SME, Global IT services provider. The company is growing and can offer an excellent opportunity for candidates that are looking for a role that will expand their IT skills, whilst offering training...
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Software Developer – Senior (.Net) at Parvana Recruitment
About our client:Our client, a specialised IT firm, partners with organisations to tackle substantial enterprise-level business, system, or project challenges. Their approach combines a proactive "start-now" philosophy with agile development and just-in-time design...
IT Help Desk Support at phoenix47 – Western Cape Century City
Job Description: This is a superb opportunity to join a fast-growing SME, Global IT services provider. The company is growing and can offer an excellent opportunity for candidates that are looking for a role that will expand their IT skills, whilst offering training...
Project Manager – Remote Remote
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