Infostealers caught mimicking Claude Code, OpenClaw and others
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Preparing for AI’s impact on data and analytics
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Master Power Technologies achieves European certification
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It’s a wrap: Africa Tech Festival 2025
Cape Town hosted the 2025 Africa Tech Festival this week. Kathy Gibson attended to find out what the continent can look forward to in the coming months. AI key for Africa to unlock youth dividend By 2030, more young Africans will enter the workplace than the...
How the data centre landscape is changing
Kathy Gibson reports – Africa’s time to shine on the digital stage is now. That’s the word from Paula Cogan, MD of Digital Realty MEA, who points out that Africa accounts for 18% of the world’s population - with the majority of them being young. At the same time, the...
Africa’s restless youth demand digitalisation
Kathy Gibson reports - Africa has a very youthful population – the median age is about 19 years – which is tech-savvy and keen to take part in the global digital revolution. But without connectivity, decent broadband penetration, and fit-for-purpose data centres this...
Why cybersecurity matters
Kathy Gibson reports – As digital transformation rolls out across Africa, cybersecurity is coming to the fore as an issue that affects all governments, organisations, and ciizens. Mondli Gungubele, deputy-minister of communications and digital technologies, tells...
Economic activity accelerated in October
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Five Scenarios of Innovation Drive the African Mobile Industry for the Next Golden Decade
Speaking at the MBB Summit during AfricaCom 2025, Samuel Chen, Vice President of Huawei's Wireless Network Business Marketing, unveiled five scenario-based innovations aimed at driving high-quality growth in Africa’s mobile industry. In his keynote speech, “Inspiring...
African countries urged to push quality economic growth by seizing the opportunities of AI development
At AfricaCom, DCDT and the ATU held the 4th Ministerial Forum, under the theme “Artificial Intelligence Powering Africa’s Leap into Digital and Intelligent Era”, convening ministers to back regional compute hubs, African-trained models and issue the joint communique....
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Unlock the Future: Senior IT Security EngineerAre you a tech wizard ready to rev up your career with the ultimate driving machine?We're engineering the digital backbone of a global powerhouse! Dive into innovation, safeguard identities across clouds, and join a squad...
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