Cryptocurrency has become incredibly popular in Africa and, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), transactions hit $20-billion a month from as early as 2021. But its popularity as an alternative route to financial stability, investments, and payments has...

Entries for the second year of the FNB Youth Start-up Accelerator (YSA) programme - in partnership with Fetola - are now open. The programme provides mentorship, training, and support to young, committed, first-time entrepreneurs. The YSA programme is a fresh,...

French anti-fraud solutions provider Evina has unmasked malware on the GooglePlay app store that has been downloaded over 285 000 times by mobile users in 11 African and European countries. The malware dubbed ‘Venus’ has been detected in eight apps so far and takes...

Digital channels and infrastructure, customer service representatives, and data, voice of the customer (VoC) and customer service metrics make up the top three priorities for customer service and support leaders and their organisations’ success going into 2020,...

Registry Africa (RA), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the ZACR (NPC), will be running its popular African gTLD (geographic Top Level Domain) $1.00 Asante Promotion during February 2020. The ‘Asante Sana Promotion’ will see the wholesale price of .africa domains drop to...

Netstar is using data in a real-life manner to improve road safety at the Putco driver training academy. Putco management took a decision to involve Netstar to help implement a range of initiatives aimed at increasing safety and reducing accidents involving its buses,...

MTN's  mobile money service, MoMo will go live in January 2020, allowing customers to send, receive, save and spend money as well as pay for goods and services using their mobile phones. The announcement comes as MTN finalised its engagements with all the relevant...

Eighty-five percent of logistics leaders expect that their outsourcing budget will increase by more than 5% in 2020, according to Gartner. Already, for 2019, 85% reported a similar budget increase. “Outsourcing one or more logistics service types has become largely...

The global installed base of smart street lights reached 10,4-million units in 2018, of which the European market accounted for nearly 40%. According to Berg Insight research about the market for connected public spaces, this number will reach 31,2-million in 2023,...

Intel  has acquired Habana Labs, an Israel-based developer of programmable deep learning accelerators for the data center for approximately $2-billion. The combination strengthens Intel’s artificial intelligence (AI) portfolio and accelerates its efforts in the...