Netflix signs up 41m new subscribers in 2024
Netflix added 41-million new subscribers last year, more than in 2022 and 2023 combined, according to data presented by AltIndex.com. The last three years have been a rollercoaster for Netflix. A huge subscriber loss in early 2022, followed by surging market...
Free AI set to increase uptake of Google’s Workspace platform
Google has elevated its Workspace platform by offering AI capabilities for free to subscribers of Workspace Business and Enterprise plans. Previously, plan subscribers could purchase an add-on of AI features ranging from $20 to $30 per user per month. The list of...
Why moving to S/4 HANA makes sense
Kathy Gibson reports from Saphila 2023 - The 2027 deadline for users to migrate their legacy SAP systems to SAP S/4 HANA is drawing close - and those customers that haven't begun the journey may be cutting it fine. But apart from the stress of having to migrate for...
Digital technology key to surviving global challenges
Kathy Gibson reports from Saphila 2023 - Global uncertainty and inflation are just two of the challenges that every enterprise in the world has to deal with. In South Africa, these are exacerbated by power and political issues. As enterprises strive for the resilience...
Flexibility and technology change how people work in Africa
A new Ericsson Consumer & IndustryLab report - Future of Work Life - Africa Edition - has examined how employees and employers in Africa navigate the current work environment and their views on the future of work shaped by the pandemic, digitalisation, and the...
Africa tipped to be fastest growing fintech region
Financial technology revenues are projected to grow six-fold from $245-billion to $1,5-trillion by 2030, according to a new report released by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and QED Investors. Despite fintechs losing more than half their market value on average in...
Cybercriminals targeting crypto users
Kaspersky has unearthed a phishing campaign targeting cryptocurrency users across the globe. The scheme showcases the ever-evolving tactics used by cybercriminals and reflects cryptocurrency's increasing appeal. During the European spring (March to May) of 2023 alone,...
Afreximbank’s African Trade Report highlights the continent’s resilience
The African continent has shown growth resilience amid a synchronised global deceleration under the confluence of overlapping crises including the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, record-high inflation, heightening geopolitical tensions, and the...
Deloitte Africa launches generative AI practice
Deloitte Africa has launched its generative AI practice for the African market bringing together industry experience, skilled AI engineers, as well as ecosystem and alliance partners to build generative AI solutions aimed at accelerating the pace of business...
Business intelligence, data key for innovative enterprises
Kathy Gibson reports from Saphila 2023 - Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is the latest big move in the technology space. It is exploding and it’s going to make a massive difference in how companies do business. While ChatGPT might be the best-known example of...
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How trustworthy are local data backup providers?
Data is essential to the smooth operation of any business, and the protection and backing up of that data is just as critical. Most organisations have -- or should have - a data protection and business continuity policy in place. However, this needs to be underpinned...
Huawei’s Mate 10 Pro and Porsche arrive in SA
Huawei has launched is Huawei Mate 10 Pro and Porsche Design Huawei Mate 10 in South Africa. The AI phones that combine new hardware, the Kirin 970 chipset and a simplified EMUI 8.0 based on Android 8.0. "As we enter the age of intelligence, AI is no longer a virtual...
Altron partners with Tango Telecom
JSE-listed Allied Technologies (Altron) and Ireland-based Tango Telecom, a provider of data monetisation solutions, today announced a partnership to launch Data Retail Engine (Tango DRE) in Africa. Tango DRE enables African mobile operators to quickly launch and...
Orange adds SA PoPs
Orange has opened two very large-capacity IP and IPX Points of Presence (PoP) in South Africa. The facilities, which are located in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa are operational from today and will enhance Internet and mobile connectivity in the region by...
Hetzner breach exposes need for cyber insurance
Last week, one of SA's largest hosting companies, Hetzner, was hacked, exposing hundreds of thousands of FTP passwords, domain names and bank account details, with the exception of credit card information. This has left South African organisations vulnerable to bad...
African startups start XL residency
Twenty of the most promising African digital start-ups will take part in the XL Africa residency, the flagship initiative of the business accelerator launched last April by the World Bank Group's infoDev program. From 6 to 17 November in Cape Town, the entrepreneurs...
Aiding mobile device investigations
There's no doubt that mobile phones are ubiquitous. Out of the roughly 7-billion people who share this planet, 6-billion of them have access to mobile phones, and for many, these devices are the sole entry point to the online world. "On the flip side, the growth in...
Nokia shapes itself for Africa
AfricaCom 2017 will be a landmark event for Nokia as it showcases how the company is shaping the future of technology to transform human experiences with effortless, simple and dependable technologies. Nokia continues to shape the future by expanding the human...
HR teams should stop focusing on HR
Most employees don't care about HR, at least not until they have an issue they need to resolve. It's not that people feel strongly against human resources, it's just that they don't see how it contributes to their day-to-day job, writes Ronnie Toerien, HCM development...
Mining Charter ramps up procurement transformation
While much of the uproar surrounding the 2017 Mining Charter has been focused on changes that increase compliance thresholds for ownership, management and control of the holders of mining and prospecting rights as well as the 'once empowered, always empowered'...
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Java Developer (Expert) 2867 – Gauteng Pretoria
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Full Stack developer Dot Netcore – Eastern Cape Port Elizabeth
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