Non-access to clean cooking poses deadly risks for millions in Africa
African policy makers and international partners meeting at this year’s UN Climate Change Conference - COP29 - have highlighted the urgent crisis posed by lack of access to clean cooking, a challenge impacting 1.2-billion people across Africa and leading to millions...
IBM, SEforALL launch new AI for energy and urban development
At COP29, IBM and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) have announced new, publicly available artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions to inform more sustainable urban development for cities and communities around the world - enabling decision-makers and policy...
The changing face of financial roles …
CFOs have ambitious plans to reach a state of autonomous finance within the next three to six years that will require a significant reshaping of finance team structures to achieve, according to Gartner. "Most finance leaders, including many CFOs, are ill-equipped to...
Cloudflare thwarts biggest DDoS attack to date
Web infrastructure service Cloudflare has thwarted a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at over 71-million requests per second. According to the company, the attack emanated from a botnet comprising more than 30 000 IP addresses...
Scammers are expanding their crypto-romance cons
Sophos, has released details of two expansive and still operational pig butchering, or sha zhu pan, rings - elaborate and lengthy financial fraud scams that can cost victims thousands of dollars - that scammers are operating from Asia. One of the rings, based in Hong...
Women are being shut out of Web3
Web3 companies - those developing radical new applications involving the metaverse, blockchain technologies, and cryptocurrencies that are set to transform many global industries - are on the cutting edge of shaping the future of the digital world. But in one aspect...
Tourists are travelling back to SA’s biggest cities
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has revealed positive signs of recovery for the South African travel and tourism sector, with travellers heading back to its major cities. The report, researched in partnership with Oxford Economics, analysed key...
What to expect from the upcoming budget
Kathy Gibson reports - Amid bearish predictions about economic growth, most (59%) of South African CEOs expect local GDP growth to decline this year. Among the challenges businesses are grappling with are structural issues, while electricity supply is having a major...
SA leads the African move to cloud
Kathy Gibson reports - South African companies expect to massively increase their investment in cloud this year. Seventy-three percent of South African respondents in the "Cloud in Africa" study released today by World Wide Worx in conjunction with Red Hat and F5 say...
SA employees still wary of AI, robots in the workplace
With the rise in popularity of artificial intelligence (AI) - especially with the recent launch of the ChatGPT bot - there are concerns among employees in the Middle East, Turkiye and Africa region with regard to robots and automation systems used by companies,...
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Finance departments should lead data and insights
The role of finance has changed. The job is no longer to just produce financial information - these processes are being or should be automated by their ERP systems. What CEO's now demand are heads of finance that can actually provide analysis and insights - being a...
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Decision Inc, a management and technology consulting organisation, has implemented a dynamic data aggregation solution for Nimble, transforming its reporting, formatting and data visualisation capabilities. The implementation utilises the simple and seamless tools...
Navigating the new world of work
The days of sticking with a single employer for 40 years are long gone and the idea of working from a coffee shop at 10am rather than being in the office for a full eight hour day is becoming ever more common. With changes in the way we work and the ways in which we...
DVT adds business coaching service
Software and solutions specialist DVT has launched a professional business coaching service in Cape Town focused on helping technology companies and IT professionals build a strengths-based culture to markedly improve performance, delivery and value. Spearheaded by...
Minimising risk in the private and public sectors
Risk is the major reason for uncertainty in any organisations of all types and sizes, both in the public and private sectors. This is why businesses are focusing more and more on identifying risks and managing them before they even affect the organisation. "The...
Sophos named as Leader in Security Suites report
Sophos has announced it has been positioned as a "Leader" in Forrester Research's new report, The Forrester Wave: Endpoint Security Suites, Q4 2016. Recognising that Sophos received the highest scores in the Strategy category, Forrester refers to Sophos Endpoint...
Fujitsu redefines data centre security with SURIENT
Fujitsu has announced availability in the EMEIA region of FUJITSU SURIENT Managed Rack Solution, a new physical security solution for data centres. This is the first product in the new Fujitsu SURIENT security suite, a range of end-to-end solutions that will...
Imago SA launches new identity
Videoconferencing supplier Imago South Africa is launching a new corporate identity and name-change to underline its independent status and commitment to its market. Its new name - SkyGroup Communications - and positioning statement of "Completely Connected", is a...
DVT automates software testing for Doddle
Software and services specialist DVT has been contracted by the pioneering UK parcel company Doddle to automate the testing of its frequently-updated web and smartphone software applications at DVT's Global Testing Centre (GTC) in Cape Town. One of the fastest-growing...
Khonology rewarded for transformation
Local fintech services provider Khonology has been rewarded for its transformation efforts and more importantly, for empowering Africa. The company was awarded the TT100 Excellence in Management of Systems in the Small Enterprise category and was also a finalist in...
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