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...

Teraco secures grid capacity allocation for utility-scale solar

Teraco has secured its first grid capacity allocation from Eskom and will start construction of a 120MW utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) energy facility in the Free State. The grid capacity allocation from Eskom enables Teraco to connect its planned 120MW solar...

Should governments regulate AI?

Mark Davison reports from Kaspersky’s Cyber Security Weekend in Kuala Lumpur – When ChatGPT launched in late 2022 it put artificial intelligence firmly in the spotlight, but the advance of the technology to generative AI (GenAI) has seen that glare intensify – so much...

What you need to know about the new Draft Companies Amendment Bill

A new draft of the Companies Amendment Bill has been published. Although the Bill clarifies many important company law issues; several ambiguities related to the current Act remain. Madelein Burger, partner at Webber Wentzel, provides a snapshot of some of the key...

Pandora Papers the biggest leak of offshore transactions

In what is believed to be the biggest data leak to date, the Pandora Papers detailing the offshore investments of hundreds of country and business leaders from around the world was released yesterday (3 October). The 11,9-million confidential documents from at least...

WFH presents opportunity for cost optimisation

Chief financial officers (CFOs) have a new opportunity to recalibrate staff costs by more proactively engaging remote and hybrid employees on their relocation preferences and adjusting salaries in line with the local cost of living, according to Gartner. "Many...

ISPA supports ICASA stance on mobile data

The overwhelming majority of South Africans access the Internet using mobile devices, so the cost of mobile data has a real impact on quality of life. The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) will shortly publish regulations designed to...

Localisation master plan will hobble economic growth, says FMF

While increased industrialisation and manufacturing can spur economic growth and create jobs, the Free Market Foundation (FMF) maintains that enforced localisation master plans will only drive away the investment required for more manufacturing capability, and will...

Cloud infrastructure spend dips but on track for annual growth

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud Deployment, spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud infrastructure, including dedicated and shared environments,...

Worldwide enterprise external OEM storage revenue up almost 10%

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Eterprise Storage Systems Tracker, global market revenue for enterprise external OEM storage systems grew 9,7% year over year to $6,9-billion during the second quarter of 2021 (2Q21). Total...

Eskom Expo finds exceptional talent among young scientists

The Covid-19 pandemic has severely affected South African society and the economy, yet it did not deter the country's young scientists from producing excellent research results in a nationwide competition over a wide range of subjects which has just been concluded....

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Centracom offers flexible VoIP

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Riverbed announces SteelFusion 3.0

Riverbed Technology, the leader in application performance infrastructure, announced Riverbed SteelFusion 3.0 (formerly known as Riverbed Granite), the first branch converged infrastructure that centralises data in the data centre and delivers local performance and...

Skilled programmers in short supply

More than ever before in history, business needs people who can program. Software is becoming a large part of ordinary life, so much so that entire industries and job descriptions are being supplanted by code. Or as a Netscape founder put it, "software is eating the...

UASC improves IT efficiency with Quintica

When the United Arab Shipping Company identified a need to better manage and support its mission critical applications, such as TRUST, its integrated Liner Management software, the company turned to Quintica to help it map a path to efficiency. The United Arab...

DAC helps chrome supplier upgrade SharePoint

Dac Systems has ensured that a leading listed supplier to the global ferrochrome market has benefited from a large-scale SharePoint Deployment Upgrade as an integral part of the migration to SharePoint 2013. SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS) is an...

Fedhealth grows customer care with LiveChat

Building on the increased usage of social media platforms which are now a feature of the evolving medical scheme landscape, Fedhealth Medical Scheme is the first scheme to offer a LiveChat option on their Web site. One of the big frustrations in modern day life must...

Integrating cloud and legacy environments

The past few years have seen a fundamental shift in enterprise computing and technology. Although businesses still rely heavily on their internal data centres for many different functions, cloud now plays a major role in the ways in which data is used, stored and...

Kaspersky plans enterprise market expansion

On 15 April 2014, Kaspersky Lab revealed its vision of enterprise security at the company’s annual CyberSecurity Summit in San Francisco, USA. The event focused on how enterprise IT security realities affected businesses worldwide and featured commentary and panel...

Veeam honours top EMEA partners

Veeam Software has recognised the accomplishments of their top EMEA partners by announcing the winners of the Veeam ProPartner of the Year Awards. The winners will be honoured at Veeam’s 2013 EMEA Partner Awards ceremony, the company’s exclusive two-day event, held in...

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