Brazilian fintech invests in Tyme Group
Brazilian digital banking group Nubank, a publicly-traded company on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), has invested in South African-born fintech Tyme Group. Tyme, a global digital banking group headquartered in Singapore and backed by South Africa’s Africa Rainbow...
Icasa approves sale of Telkom’s Swiftnet towers
Telkom SA has obtained approval from the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) for the disposal of its masts and towers business housed in Swiftnet. This is the final major regulatory requirement for the R6,75-billion transaction to a consortium...
Consumers labour under debt burden
Sunday (26 March) will mark three years since South Africa went into lockdown, which had a devastating event had on the local economy. To add to this, South Africa was recently placed on the money laundering grey list, and economists are predicting a 45% chance of a...
What’s holding East African start-ups back?
A new regional survey of tech start-ups across East Africa reveals that while investment levels remained relatively stable over the last 12 months, the heart of Africa's start-up ecosystem perceives many roadblocks as having the potential to disrupt the region's...
NAPAfrica hits 3Tbps milestone
On the evening of 15 February, Internet exchange point (IXP) NAPAfrica reached the 3Tbps traffic threshold. This peak in Internet traffic was experienced globally on the back of some significant new gaming releases and software updates. This increase in NAPAfrica's...
Men and women control smart devices differently
A recent survey by Kaspersky reveals there is gap regarding those typically in charge of maintaining and buying smart devices at home. In particular, 72% of men surveyed are the ones who set up smart devices in their home, while just under half (47%) of women do so....
Applications for AWS Fintech Africa Accelerator open
Amazon Web Services’ Startup Loft Accelerator team has announced the launch of its inaugural AWS Fintech Africa Accelerator. Pre-seed and seed stage fintech founders operating in Africa and building companies to solve fundamental issues in payments, open/embedded...
SA firms are vulnerable to cybersecurity attacks
A paltry 19% of organisations in South Africa have the 'Mature' level of readiness needed to be resilient against today's modern cybersecurity risks. This is according to Cisco's first Cybersecurity Readiness Index, developed against the backdrop of a post-Covid,...
Load shedding drives manufacturer confidence lower
Confidence levels in the manufacturing sector dropped 9 points to 17 in the first quarter of 2023, according to the Absa Manufacturing Survey. "Manufacturers are feeling pessimistic as load shedding, especially at higher levels such as stage 6, continues to have a...
Ethernet founder wins AM Turing Award
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Bob Metcalfe as recipient of the 2022 ACM AM Turing Award for the invention, standardisation, and commercialisation of Ethernet. Metcalfe is an Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at...
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Steps to success in your new career
Heidi Duvenage, head of Sage Talent Solutions, offers advice for people starting a new career in 2017. The start of a New Year brings with it fresh beginnings, making it one of the most popular times of the year to look for a new job. With school leavers, recent...
Fujitsu tames enterprise big data with PRIMEFLEX
Fujitsu is now making it easier for enterprises to tame big data and extract valuable business intelligence from multiple data sources, by extending its PRIMEFLEX for Hadoop integrated systems to also fully support SAP HANA Vora. Increasingly, enterprises are looking...
RS Components debuts easy-to-solder Raspberry Pi prototyping board
RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents, the global distributor for engineers, has launched a 40-pin solder-tag board for the highly popular Raspberry Pi credit-card sized computer board. Exclusively available from RS, the new RS Pro solder-tag...
Are you getting the speeds you have been promised?
The Internet is an essential part of our daily activities, at home and at work, writes Calvin Collett, CEO at iConnect Telecoms. As a result, the performance of your Internet connection can significantly affect productivity and impact leisure activities such as...
Training is the key to continued success in contact centres
As businesses, both large and small, become more digital and move into the world of online, the modern call centre is often the initial, and in some cases the single point of customer contact. But to ensure contact centre agents are equipped to provide a positive...
How to conduct a training needs analysis
In this SoftExpert white paper, Carl Greenberg, a human resources consultant and organisational psychologist and Ian Huntly, CEO and MD of Rifle-Shot Performance Holdings, discuss the importance of conducting a needs training analysis within an organisation....
PoPI compliance a top priority for 2017
Although the Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPI) isn't effective yet, company executives will have to make it a priority for 2017. With the imminent appointment of the Information Regulator, companies urgently need to upgrade their information technology...
Building resilience is key to managing risk
The outcomes-based approach of King IV is a timely invitation for corporate South Africa to get better at managing risk in a world that is getting more risky by the day, says Michael Davies, CEO of ContinuitySA. Davies argues that King IV is directing organisations to...
Dell EMC launches ProDeploy Client Suite
Dell EMC has announced the launch of ProDeploy Client Suite, enabling customers to deploy PCs with greater speed, less effort and increased control. With three different service levels, training and certification, customers have the flexibility to choose the specific...
Managed services lets companies focus on innovation
Ian Summerfield, manager of services portfolio at Jasco Enterprise, writes about how a hands-off approach gives organisations more time for innovation. The arrival of a digital economy has ushered in an era of rapid business transformation. It's brought new business...
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