How to raise funds, then scale your African start-up

Kathy Gibson reports from Everything AI and Gitex Kenya in Nairobi – For many African start-ups, their biggest challenge is not coming up with solutions or creating systems that work – it is in scaling them effectively. Once the excitement of the initial idea and...

African startups look to new investors

Kathy Gibson reports from AI Everything and Gitex Kenya in Nairobi – Africa’s exciting and innovative start-ups are attracting interest from investors in the Middle East, Europe and Asia. Investors from these regions are arguably more aligned to the continent’s...

Pilot to production: the challenge of African developers

Kathy Gibson reports from the AI Everything Summit in Nairobi – Africa has no shortage of ideas, use cases and innovation when it comes to developing AI applications. But having a great idea, or an elegant algorithm, doesn’t necessarily translate into a bankable...

As economies shift, Africa urged to follow the money

Kathy Gibson reports from the AI Everything Summit in Nairobi – Africa is enjoying a renaissance as it embraces technology and artificial intelligence (AI) to drive its future growth. But there is a danger that the continent will remain a mere consumer of the...

AI, wireless leaders form AI-RAN alliance

The AI-RAN Alliance, a new collaborative initiative aimed at integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into cellular technology to further advance radio access network (RAN) technology and mobile networks, was launched at the GSMA Mobile World Congress happening now in...

Initiative aims to open access to digital finance

Visa and the GSMA Mobile for Development Foundation (GSMA Foundation) have announced the launch of the Digital Finance for All (DFA) Initiative. The five-year initiative aims to advance digital financial inclusion for 20 million individuals, including women, small...

South Africans rush to book UK flights

South Africa's removal from the UK's travel red list on 7 October has resulted in a flood of enquiries and bookings for The Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG). On 8 October, the group saw its revenue for October shoot up by 89% across its leisure brands. In the hours...

Corporate lawyers are exhausted from the pandemic

The pandemic has taken a toll on many lawyers, as a survey of 202 corporate lawyers in July 2021 showed that 54% are exhausted to some degree, with 20% scoring as highly exhausted, according to Gartner. "The fact that many corporate lawyers are exhausted is probably...

Cellular IoT gateway vendors first-to-market with 5G devices for IoT

Close to 3,7-million cellular IoT gateways were shipped globally during 2020, at a total market value of approximately $1,01-billion. Berg Insight has released new findings about the market for cellular IoT gateways and routers, finding that annual sales were flat...

Content platforms drive ECM evolution

Kathy Gibson reports from Hyland CommunityLive 2021 – Disruption is driving organisations to really think about their digital experiences and to examine their content and processes in a new light. The have to become resilient and adaptive, says Cheryl McKinnon,...

IoT will be the primary Internet 4.0 technology

New research by Inmarsat reveals that investment in the Internet of Things (IoT) is set to overtake cloud computing, next generation security, big data analytics and other digital transformation technologies in the near future. Respondents drawn from multiple...

Revix verifies customers’ crypto funds

Revix, the Cape Town-based investment platform backed by Sabvest and partnering with Mazars, has obtained an independent, verified audit to prove that customer funds are properly held. The company believes that the Proof of Reserves report released by Mazars on 1...

People matter in post-Covid transformation

The business world inevitably reflects the society that surrounds it, as changes in societal norms and evolving cultural values naturally filter into office environments. After all, businesses are composed of people. What's less obvious is that the relationship works...

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Zambia, IBM to provide access to medicine

IBM has announced a collaboration with the Zambian Ministry of Health to provide citizens with improved access to 200 lifesaving drugs. Supported by the World Bank, the Department for International Development, UNICEF and London Business School, Zambia’s Medical...

Veeam launches Availability Suite

Veeam Software, innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Centre, has announced Veeam Availability Suite (available Q3, 2014), a solution that ensures all applications and data are accessible whenever and wherever they are needed....

FNB improves building security with Jasco

As one of the largest banks in South Africa, security is a top priority for FNB. When the camera system at the bank’s Fairland building reached end of life, increasing security risks and adding to operational costs, upgrading it became paramount. FNB turned to Jasco...

Rectron offers new Seagate harddrive

South African ICT and consumer electronics distributor, Rectron, has announced availability of the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4. The 6Tb hard disk drive (HDD) offers the fastest performance available for a nearline HDD and delivers up to 25% performance...

Kaspersky Lab unveils FriendOrFoe app

Kaspersky Lab presents FriendOrFoe – a free app for Facebook that allows users to assess just how “valuable” their friends are, and even shows what others think of them. The app will reveal which of those hundreds of followers are genuine fans, who reposts and...

Kemp launches new Condor framework

Kemp Technologies has announced Kemp Condor, a true multi-tenant application service delivery solution for enterprises, managed hosting companies and cloud service providers who want to adopt a best-of-breed network function virtualisation (NFV) strategy. Condor's...

DVT launches Agile@DVT service in CT

Software development company DVT has expanded its agile training and consulting services with the launch of its Agile@DVT service in the Cape Town market. Managed by Jenny Bellairs, regional director of DVT’s Project management and Agile Solutions, Agile@DVT is a...

Moving to managed services

As more and more organisations consider outsourcing all or part of their IT to improve efficiency or lower costs, managed services become an increasingly attractive option. However, there are several points businesses should understand about managed services before...

Insurers need to gain mobile traction

Leading international research group, Gartner, reported that even though CIOs rated mobility as the third most strategic technology for 2013, a large percentage of mobile projects have still failed to attract end-users in 2014.It believes this can be attributed to a...

Tax document storage solutions in the cloud

Cloud services are a global trend that is gaining popularity with locals too as more and more South Africans become comfortable socialising, transacting and backing up their information online. Now the world of tax has entered the cloud as TaxTim extends its offering...

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