Pixie flits from the garden to enter your shopping trolley
Shoprite’s Sixty60 is now looking to do your grocery shopping for you with the introduction of a new, personalised AI-powered shopping assistant – Pixie. Pixie - developed entirely in-house by ShopriteX - predicts what it thinks individual customers need, and when...
AI startup Refiant raises $5m
The world's biggest technology companies are set to spend nearly $700-billion this year building data centres to power artificial intelligence. Global data centre energy consumption is expected to double by 2028, with AI workloads driving the majority of that growth....
iOCO expects improved earnings
iOCO has published a trading update for the six months ended 31 January 2026, alerting shareholders to higher earnings. Earnings per share and headline earnings per share are expected to be between 27 cents and 30 cents, an increase of between 42% to 58% over the...
Intel showcases AI-ready network vision
With 6G on the horizon, operators are clear that success won’t come from architectural resets, but from evolving the strong compute foundations already built in 5G. Moreover, progress will come from deploying intelligence responsibly and at scale across existing...
Drones damage AWS data centres in UAE
Drone strikes have hit and damaged at least two Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centres in the Gulf region. Two facilities in the United Arab Emirates have been struck, with significant damage. One strike was on Sunday, in a Bahrain data centre, which suffered fire...
AI-driven attacks escalate as basic gaps leave enterprises exposed
Cybercriminals are exploiting basic security gaps at dramatically higher rates, now accelerated by AI tools that help attackers identify weaknesses faster than ever. According to IBM’s 2026 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, there has been a 44% increase in attacks...
PCs, smartphones buckle under high memory costs
Soaring memory costs are projected to drive worldwide PC shipments to decline 10,4% and smartphone shipments to drop by 8,4% in 2026, compared to 2025 levels, according to Gartner. Gartner estimates a 130% surge in combined DRAM and solid-state drive (SSD) prices by...
Manufacturing stabilises as PMI holds steady
The seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) remained just below the neutral 50-point mark, following January’s strong rebound. While the index can be volatile month to month, recent readings indicate that the sharp contraction at the end of 2025 has...
Africans are online, but not necessarily secure
Most adults across seven African countries access the Internet frequently - but many remain unfamiliar with digital security measures and practice them inconsistently if at all. This is according to an Afrobarometer telephone survey that polled users in Angola, Benin,...
Pentagon signs OpenAI as Anthropic deadline passes
The US Department of War has ended negotiations with Anthropic over artificial intelligence (AI) safety rails, named the company a supply chain risk and signed a contract with OpenAI instead. Anthropic, negotiating a $200-million contract, insisted on guidelines to...
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Could 15 March 2029 be D-Day for cybersecurity in your organisation?
The 15th of March is etched in history as the day when Julius Caesar met his end at the hands of the senators of Rome, and it's about to become even more significant. "Beware the Ides of March," a soothsayer tells Caesar in Shakespeare's play, and since then, the...
Behaviour change, not hype, will decide the future of work
South African businesses are racing to deploy artificial intelligence (AI), but many risk confusing automation with true AI with potentially costly consequences. Geoff Cohen, partner at digital transformation consultancy DY|DX, urges companies to take a step back and...
Compliance the foundation for sustainable growth in finance
For many financial institutions in South Africa, compliance has long been treated as a cost of doing business, a necessary function to satisfy auditors and regulators, and to avoid penalties. But that mindset no longer holds up, writes Pienaar Zietsman, chief...
Sovereign SASE a new model for data-sensitive enterprises
Secure access service edge (SASE) is a powerful model for delivering security services closer to users and applications. By Nirav Shah and Andres Herrera at Fortinet But for many organisations, especially in healthcare, government, financial services, and defense,...
Hidden ownership turns tax crime into an AI challenge
Tax evasion goes far beyond legal tax avoidance. It is the practice of illegally hiding income or profits to avoid paying tax, costing countries over $500-billion a year. In many cases tax evasion depends on opaque ownership structures that hide who really owns...
Telecom expense visibility the missing link in financial governance
For good reason, people, capital, and infrastructure are known as the pillars that hold up organisations. Now comes a modern pillar that is just as important: connectivity. Nobody would deny the need for extensive financial oversight in monitoring spending on people,...
Questions every business should ask their SAP partner
SAP isn’t just another system. It touches all your business processes, data, and decision-making, and covers nearly every business function. That’s why choosing the right SAP partner is essential. The right one will help your business move forward. The wrong one will...
Fintech startup raises $2,6m
Four-year-old card-linked instalment platform Float has secured $2,6-million (R46-million) in funding co-led by Invenfin and SAAD Investment Holdings, with participation from all existing investors, including Platform Investment Partners. Lighthouse Venture Partners...
NEC XON, Eutelsat OneWeb partner on African connectivity
Across Africa, industries operating in remote and difficult-to-reach locations face a persistent challenge: reliable, high-speed connectivity. Mining operations deep in rural regions, offshore oil platforms, government outposts, and agricultural enterprises often work...
Recognition for Check Point Software
Check Point Software Technologies has been recognised for the second consecutive year as one of the World’s Best Companies of 2025 by TIME and Statista. Check Point is featured on the list due to its strong employee satisfaction, revenue growth, and sustainability...
Junior IT Security Engineer at Mancosa
IntroductionMANCOSA, a DHET registered and CHE accredited private higher education distance education provider, offering undergraduate and postgraduate business qualifications, has the following vacancy available: Junior IT Security EngineerDuties &...
Junior IT Security Engineer at Mancosa – KwaZulu-Natal Durban
IntroductionMANCOSA, a DHET registered and CHE accredited private higher education distance education provider, offering undergraduate and postgraduate business qualifications, has the following vacancy available: Junior IT Security EngineerDuties &...
Field Technician
Job Title: Field Technician - Johannesburg - Biometric Workforce ManagementSalary: R15,000 Basic + benefits, Negotiable depending on experience.The Opportunity:Joining this biometric workforce management leader is a smart career move today. You will install vital...
Field Technician – Remote Remote
Job Title: Field Technician - Johannesburg - Biometric Workforce ManagementSalary: R15,000 Basic + benefits, Negotiable depending on experience.The Opportunity:Joining this biometric workforce management leader is a smart career move today. You will install vital...
Software Developer II (Contract)
To realise the detailed design through programming and configuration and provide guidance and mentoring to other software developersJob ResponsibilitiesProduce working quality software that meets the designDevelop critical and complex technical components in area of...
Software Developer II (Contract) – Gauteng Kramerville
To realise the detailed design through programming and configuration and provide guidance and mentoring to other software developersJob ResponsibilitiesProduce working quality software that meets the designDevelop critical and complex technical components in area of...
IT Systems Administrator -DBN at Mancosa
IntroductionMANCOSA, a DHET registered and CHE accredited private higher education distance education provider, offering undergraduate and postgraduate business qualifications, has the following vacancy available: IT Systems AdministratorDuties &...
IT Systems Administrator -DBN at Mancosa – KwaZulu-Natal Durban
IntroductionMANCOSA, a DHET registered and CHE accredited private higher education distance education provider, offering undergraduate and postgraduate business qualifications, has the following vacancy available: IT Systems AdministratorDuties &...
Application Specialist (Ghana)
We are recruiting for a French speaking Application Specialist to join a leading international medical technology organisation based in Accra, Ghana. This role supports hospitals and healthcare professionals across West and North Africa with advanced ventilation,...
Application Specialist (Ghana) – Remote Remote
We are recruiting for a French speaking Application Specialist to join a leading international medical technology organisation based in Accra, Ghana. This role supports hospitals and healthcare professionals across West and North Africa with advanced ventilation,...
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