EFTCorp recognised for financial inclusion in Africa
EFT Corporation (EFTCorp) received the “Outstanding Contribution to Fintech Enablement” award at the 15th Africa Bank 4.0 Summit – West Africa, held in Accra, Ghana. The award recognises EFTCorp’s role in advancing fintech innovation and expanding financial inclusion...
Orange Social Venture Prize supports innovation in Africa, Middle East
The 15th Orange Social Venture Prize in Africa and the Middle East is open for submissions. Candidates from the 17 countries within the Orange footprint have until 18 May to submit their project on the website. Since 2011, the OSVP prize has been rewarding innovative...
Global IPO activity still on a decline
Last year saw a dramatic slowdown in global IPO activity, with the total value of deals plummeting by 72% to $171,2-billion. However, 2023 doesn’t look much better as high inflation, rising interest rates, and the gloomy economic outlook continue to make fundraising...
Workplace equality key to ending gender-based violence
Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but critical for reducing gender-based violence (GBV) and promoting sustainable economic growth. This is the key finding from a new study by KPMG South Africa in partnership with the Shared Value Africa Initiative...
Cyber incidents drive shareholder value down
A major cyber incident resulted in a 9% decrease in shareholder value - over and above the market - in the year following an event. This is the headline finding from Aon's 2023 Cyber Resilience Report, which helps business leaders benchmark their organisation's cyber...
What Americans know about AI, security and big tech
While digital literacy is widely seen as an essential skill, Americans' understanding of digital topics varies notably depending on the subject, according to a new report from Pew Research Centre. The report finds that Americans answer a median of five out of nine...
Russian spacecraft crashes into the moon
Russia's first moon mission in 47 years has failed, after its Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and smashed into moon. The state space corporation Roscosmos, said on Sunday (August 20), that it had lost contact with the craft shortly after a problem occurred...
4th Gen AMD EPYC powers Amazon EC2 instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its 4th Gen AMD EPYC processor-based offerings with the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) M7a and Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances, which offer next-generation performance and efficiency for applications that...
Adobe co-founder Dr John Warnock dies
Adobe co-founder, Dr John Warnock, died on Saturday (19 August 2023), at the age of 82 Dr Warnock co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Dr Charles Geschke after meeting as colleagues at Xerox. Their first product was Adobe PostScript, new technology that sparked the desktop...
Massive surge for photo, video apps
As a key part of the social media experience, photo and video sharing has evolved over the past years. Today, photo and video apps have more users than ever, thanks to hundreds of millions of people willing to spend money on brushing up their digital presence and...
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Beyond Christmas parties and Santa shoeboxes
There's a familiar vibe in the air as December draws closer, work starts calming down and families head to the beaches for their year-end holidays. By Joanne van der Walt, Sage Foundation Programme Manager for Africa If you're one of the few skeleton team members left...
Routed co-founder appointed as ISPA director
Malcolm Siegel, co-founder of Routed, has been appointed to the board of The Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA). He previously served as an ISPA member since 2011, in a role within the INX working group management committee. Siegel says he looks forward to...
OutSystems places first graduates
OutSystems SA, which launched an internship programme in June 2017, targeting IT graduates with a three year diploma or degree, preferably in Software Development, has successfully placed its first six graduates, with another eight due to graduate at the end of 2017....
Two-factor authentication should be a staple
The tools for two-factor authentication have been available for about a decade and in an era of increasing cyber crime, fraud and identity theft, two layers of authentication at least should be a staple for security. But it is not. While some are already graduating to...
Seize the technology opportunity
African finance professionals must not miss the golden opportunity technology offers to enhance their ability to compete successfully in the continent's growing business sector, says Theuns Holtshousen, divisional business leader of CaseWare Africa. "As Africans we...
Refurbished electronics as good as new
The speedy introduction of new technologies and consumers wanting to stay current with the latest tech trends has led to masses of perfectly good second user equipment entering the market. Computers, phones and other digital devices needn't be discarded, they can be...
Bytes appoints new executive
Bytes Managed Solutions has expanded its expertise with the appointment of Glen Riffel as executive for supply chain. Riffel spent 10 years as Franchise Technical and Supply Chain Manager at the Coca-Cola Company in South Africa and has previous work experience at KWV...
Fibre benefits surpass 133-year-old copper
Copper wire telecoms technology is another year old next year, with the emphasis on 'old'. That's the message from fibre-based independent broadband provider, Otel Communications, which says businesses should making moving to fibre their top New Year's Resolution....
Samsung is number six brand
Samsung Electronics has been ranked in sixth place in Interbrand's Best Global Brands 2017, with a brand value of R758,4-billion ($56,2-billion), one position up and a 9% increase from last year. Samsung has ranked as one of the top 10 brands on the Interbrand...
Credence adds Infocyte to its stable
Credence Security, a specialist distribution company focusing on information security and risk management, has won the distribution rights to Infocyte's threat detection solutions. Infocyte's threat hunting technology was developed by former US Air Force cybersecurity...
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