Bolt commits to upgrading safety
Ride-hailer, Bolt says it will commit €100-million over three years to strengthen safety measures on its platform including product development, customer support, safety feature awareness, and preventative measures to minimise safety incidents. The company says its...
Battery material shifts in the Li-ion market
The lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery industry is undergoing significant shifts in material usage - driven by the growing demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and stationary battery storage applications. And, despite some short-term concerns over EV adoption, the long-term...
NASA space missions pinpoint sources of CO2 emissions on Earth
A duo of Earth-observing missions has enabled researchers to detect and track carbon dioxide (CO2) emission changes from a single facility, using the world’s fifth-largest coal-fired power plant as a test case. In the recent study, researchers used space-based...
Insurers shift focus to customer experience, operational efficiency
Improving the customer experience and operational excellence, not growth, is the driving force of a majority of insurance digitalization initiatives in 2023, according to a new Gartner survey of insurance CIOs and technology executives. The 2023 Gartner CIO and...
Privacy predictions for 2023
This year we will witness the formation of an even more diverse market for behaviour tracking due to local law enforcement. Moreover, smartphones will take over traditional paperwork and the idea of a metaverse will become part of our reality. These are excerpts from...
Intel data centre processors drive next-gen innovations
Dubbing it one of the most important product launches in its history, Intel has unveiled its 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), the Intel Xeon CPU Max Series (code-named Sapphire Rapids HBM) and the Intel Data Centre GPU Max Series...
AI efficiency meets sustainability
Accelerated Nvidia Hopper systems with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors -- including Nvidia DGX H100 and 60+ systems from Nvidia partners -- provide 25-times more efficiency than traditional data centre servers to save big on energy costs. AI is at the heart of...
PC shipment slump continues, recovery not likely this year
Global shipments for traditional PCs fell below expectations in the fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22) as 67,2-million PCs were shipped, down 28,1% from the prior year, according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly...
BETI is back on track
Ending the year positively, the BankservAfrica Economic Transactions Index (BETI) for December 2022 improved despite the ongoing, dismal economic context. "After six consecutive months of declines, the BETI rose to an index level of 132.1 in December, almost on par...
CFOs need to rethink the finance function
Evaluating finance function strategy, scope and design is the top priority for chief financial officers (CFOs) in 2023, according to a survey by Gartner. A survey of 157 CFOs in November 2022 ranked the top 10 priorities for CFOs for this year, and 90% of respondents...
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What is corporate SA doing wrong in transformation?
Employment equity has been high on the agenda since 1998, yet it seems very little progress has been made, writes Sydwell Shikweni, transformation director at Merchants. The 16th Commission for Employee Equity (CEE) Report, recently released by the Department of...
Absa adopts Striata secure document repository
Absa Stockbrokers and Portfolio Management has implemented the Secure Document Repository (SDR) solution from Striata to manage statements, contract notes and tax certificates that need to be accessed securely by Absa Stockbrokers and its investors. At go live in...
Combatting the ‘evil Internet of Things’
A recent survey of over 400 global IT security pros revealed that fears over the security of connected devices has risen sharply since last year, writes Peter Reid, executive head of Intervate. In all, 86% of respondents to security analysts Pwnie Express’ survey said...
Why the right partner is important
Sunil “Sunny” Desai, professional services manager at Aptronics, delves into the world of technology trends and explains why choosing the right technology partner is essential. Businesses of today are in the midst of a digital revolution. Any new technologies or...
Are contactless cards cloneable?
The security community has been demonstrating successful cloning of contactless transactions since at least 2012. Full cloning of cards is not possible, and current cloning methods can only rely on copying an out-of-date implementation of the contactless standard to...
What a connected society needs
In today’s more digital world, businesses have started to focus less on the amount of data consumed and more on just having fast and reliable connectivity, writes Brian Timperley, MD of MICROmega Group company Turrito Networks. The increasing commoditisation of data...
Stage2Data drives business continuity through Redstor
Canadian private cloud solution provider Stage2Data has been diversifying its client product offering in the Caribbean and Canada following its recent alliance with Redstor, a global provider of cloud backup service and data protection solutions. “Our approach to...
CA delivers new development solutions
CA Southern Africa has announced the availability of CA Technologies Release Automation Continuous Delivery Edition, and several new integrations across CA’s DevOps portfolio and third party solutions creating the first integrated, fully automated and open continuous...
VCS showcases Xerox solutions at Seychelles’ National Show
VCS, the authorised Xerox distributor for the Seychelles, has chosen the National Show as a platform from which to showcase its latest Xerox technologies and offerings. As a platform for Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) commercial exchange,...
Security is about planning for failure
As the world continues to become increasingly connected, organisations are faced with large quantities of data they need to protect and make sense of. International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that 66% of CEOs will have digital transformation at the centre of...
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Data Analyst – Compliance – Gauteng Midrand
Role purpose:M-Pesa is a pioneering fintech business and global market leader in mobile money. Starting from 2007 as a convenient means by which the unbanked and underbanked could make digital payments, M-Pesa has now grown to offer over 60 million active customers...
Senior Python Developer – Western Cape Cape Town CBD
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