Is SA ready for the data revolution?
Data roles are constantly evolving to meet the needs of the digital economy. Jessica Nyarayi Tandy, director of Bizmod, says the demand for data-driven insights shapes how organisations function compete and innovate. “In South Africa we are mirroring global trends...
Personalization triples the likelihood of customer regret
Personalised marketing, while valuable for some, generates negative experiences for 53% of customers, who were 3,2-times more likely to regret a purchase and 44% less likely to purchase again in the future, according to a survey by Gartner. A Gartner survey of 1 464...
AI companies dominate the unicorn club
Last year, fewer than 100 companies joined the global unicorn club - the lowest number since 2017 and a steep drop compared to 2022 and 2023, which saw hundreds of private startups valued at $1-billion or more. Still, in a year that showed becoming a unicorn is much...
Tech industry most geopoliticised in the world
The global supply chains organised to optimise profit and speed - which shaped international trade and delivered benefits to both producers and consumers for two decades under globalisation - have now been twisted out of shape, with the global economy facing...
Asset tokenisation to drive blockchain revenue boom
The blockchain industry, although volatile and nascent, has made significant progress in a short span of time, driven by remarkable innovation. Global blockchain platform and services revenue is set to grow from $12-billion in 2023 to $291-billion in 2030. This growth...
Wearables set for rebound
The wearable devices market declined 0,9% YoY in the fourth quarter of 2023 (4Q23), says IDC, adding that despite improved economic conditions, mature markets such as the US, Western Europe and Japan recorded declines in 4Q23 due to muted demand, tough comparisons...
Microsoft boosts AI healthcare market
Microsoft's recent announcement that it will be further integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into its applications is expected to contribute significantly to the 31% CAGR in the AI healthcare space between 2022 and 2027, says research group GlobalData. In the last...
Strong momentum for security spend in Europe
European security spending will grow by 12,3% in 2024, marking another year of strong momentum with double-digit growth, according to IDC's Worldwide Security Spending Guide. Spending in the region is expected to increase at a steady pace throughout the whole 2022 to...
Illegal cigarettes cost SA billions
South Africa has been losing billions of rands on illegal cigarettes - more than R100-billion since 2010. New research from University of Cape Town (UCT) academics Dr Nicole Vellios and Professor Corné van Walbeek says that in 2022 alone, the government lost...
Capacity building support, training for Lesotho ESOs
Tshimologong Precinct welcomed 14 Enterprise Support Organisations (ESOs) from Lesotho for the ESOs second cohort Capacity Building Programme. The programme is for the Government of Lesotho, through the Competitiveness and Financial Inclusion (CAFI) Project under the...
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Keep tabs on third-party financial health
With increasing global focus on limiting illegal activities such as bribery, corruption, illicit proceeds, money laundering, terrorist financing and other financial crimes, the review of third-party financial health within due diligence is more critical than ever....
New App Integrator Directory aims to ignite SME growth
The launch of the South African App Integrator Directory, brainchild of digital accounting software firm Xero, is set to solve the complexity of choosing apps for small business owners. The directory has now gone live in South Africa - with six partners - Realm...
Standard Bank sees Instant Money uptake
Digital money transfers are becoming South Africa's favourite way of transferring cash across the country with volumes climbing at the end of each month, during long weekends, school holidays and during traditional peak holiday seasons. Standard Bank offers the...
Fujitsu’s biometric encryption technology provides quicker processing
Fujitsu Laboratories has announced that it has developed a technology that can compare biometric information while it is still encrypted, with the same accuracy and processing speed as conventional biometric authentication systems. Conventional technologies have been...
Stemming the rising unemployment tide
Government, business and labour should urgently look to progressive international labour laws to stop the rising tide of unemployment, says a labour expert. "South Africa's rising unemployment rate is evidence that the country's current labour model is inadequate to...
New NVidia RTX Studio laptops, mobile workstations from Lenovo
NVidia has announced that new NVidia RTX Studio laptops and professional-grade mobile workstations are being released by Lenovo, delivering realtime ray tracing, advanced AI and ultra-high-resolution video editing to the world's 40-million creatives. The latest...
FNB revamps eBucks Rewards for business
FNB's eBucks Rewards programme for businesses will be changing from 1 September 2019. The bank has simplified the way FNB Business and RMB Private Bank Business customers qualify, get rewarded and move up tiers. Businesses will be required to meet a new set of...
Iress simplifies Xplan for users
Iress will release the first of several planned updates to thousands of users this Friday aimed at making Xplan simpler to use and for users to have greater access to its rich functionality. The changes to advice software platform Xplan follow more than 12 months of...
Dell Technologies adds Russia to META region
Dell Technologies has announced that its Middle East, Turkey, Africa (META) region is now being expanded to include Russia, with the change coming into effect immediately. The re-mapping of the CIS markets follows Dell Technologies' view that these countries have...
ISPA membership a ‘badge of respectability’
South Africa's burgeoning ICT (Information and Communications Technology) grew 12% to amount to a R229-billion industry last year, according to ICASA, and there is no end to this growth in sight as government and industry increasingly embrace digital technology. "The...
Principal Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails) (CPT Remote) – Western Cape Cape Town
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