FNB customers once again hit R3-billion in purchases on Black Friday, in line with last year's highest spend peak. FNB also saw a positive shift in usage of the FNB Virtual Card, with a 94% year on year increase in customer spend over Black Friday weekend....

Nedbank has identified a small number of significant trends in consumer spending behaviour during the recent Black Friday period, which it says not only point to the continuing evolution of South Africa's retail landscape, but also to a greater awareness by South...

In 2021, many financial cybercriminals are likely to target bitcoin more often, while other cybercriminals will switch to transit cryptocurrencies when demanding payment from victims for enhanced privacy. On top of that, extortion practices will become even more...

Digital payments fintech Ozow has processed in excess of R1-billion in transactions in a month, for the first time in November 2020. This is thanks to a Black Friday surge where the single biggest transaction was more than R500 000 on a popular ecommerce site. After...

Despite recent intervention from the Competition Commission, South Africa still has some of the most expensive mobile data rates on the continent. In fact, from lowest to highest data tariffs, Research ICT Africa's Retail African Mobile Pricing (RAMP) Index ranked...

Zoom Video Communications has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider. The multi-year agreement extends the longstanding relationship between the two companies, enabling Zoom to rapidly scale its service to cope with the challenges brought...

South Africa's Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) is inviting applications for its newly unveiled "ISPA Inspires" bursary programme. The inaugural ISPA Inspires bursaries will be awarded to one or more promising young candidates interested in pursuing a...

The global market for IoT device management and application enablement platforms was worth $2-billion in 2019, according to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight. Growing at a CAGR of 32%, yearly sales of device management and application...

Construction technology provider Asite has launched a new research report on how the construction industry can mitigate carbon emissions through the smart retrofitting of built assets. The report, entitled "Smart Retrofitting: The Key to Decarbonizing the Built...

Some Absa customers' data could have been compromised in a leak by a bank employee. Absa reports that an employee has unlawfully made selected customer data available to a some external parties. According to a statement from the bank, the leaked data relates to a...