inDrive levelling the e-hailing playing field
Reaffirming its commitment to boosting drivers’ earnings, mobility app inDrive has invested around R1,3-million every month in driver bonuses across South Africa - amounting to more than R8-million in the past six months. According to Ashif Black, country...
Digital assets, AI are hot as fintechs pull in $44,7bn
Despite the cautious optimism permeating the fintech sector heading into 2025, the first half of the year saw fintech investment and deals slow considerably amid headwinds from ongoing geopolitical tensions and concerns around evolving trade policies. Total fintech...
Q-Kon brings the Outernet to Africa
Q-Kon has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Outernet provider Rivada Space Networks power network expansion and digital transformation across Africa. Q-Kon will leverage Rivada’s Outernet to provide resiliency for specialised data networks across Africa...
Even experienced users fall victim to AI phishing attacks
The evolution of AI is not only affecting various industries, but it has also transformed cybercriminals’ tactics. One alarming trend is the use of AI to enhance phishing scams, refining them, targeting specific individuals, and making these attacks almost impossible...
Data, analytics key to AI strategies
Organisations’ AI strategy and operating model are being driven by chief data and analytics officers (CDAOs) in 70% of cases, according to a new Gartner survey. The Gartner CDAO Agenda Survey for 2025 from September through November 2024 among 504 data and analytics...
Trade wars set to increase Big Tech antitrust scrutiny
The consensus around the need to regulate digital monopolies has never been stronger on both sides of the Atlantic. Under the second Trump administration, transatlantic tensions over digital regulation, including antitrust, will heighten, as Big Tech is caught in an...
Mobile PoS heralds the modern retail era
While the economic landscape has been anything but stable, with international trade tensions and the national budget fallout spooking the market before rebounding when the VAT increase was later withdrawn, the retail sector is showing remarkable resilience. This is...
Slim profile gives new Samsung phone an edge
Samsung has launched the Galaxy S25 Edge phone, a slim phone measuring just 5,8mm. Anisha Bhatia, senior technology analyst at GlobalData, comments: “Samsung's Galaxy S25 Edge is a slim design that will redefine market standards amid competitive pressures. The phone’s...
India leads in global AI tool adoption
Over the past five years, artificial intelligence has become a mainstream technology, changing daily life and improving workflow across industries. Its user base has also exploded, nearly tripling since 2020, and reaching over 350-million globally. While the US and...
Marketing budgets have flatlined
Chief marketing officers (CMOs) report that their marketing budgets for 2025 remain flat at 7,7% of overall company revenue, according to a survey by Gartner. This is consistent with last year when marketing budgets represented 7,7% of overall company revenue. The...
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Purposeful travel could make business travel eco-friendly
Cost, carbon, care - these are the "three C's" kickstarting a new approach to business travel in 2024. This is according to FCM GM Bonnie Smith, who dubs them the "pillars of purposeful travel". The traditional "bucket-list" approach is giving way to purposeful trips...
Make your company’s training pay for itself
Strategic business planning in South Africa needs a forward-thinking approach so when it comes to cultivating a skilled workforce, there is one action that repeatedly delivers - the inclusion of learnerships into Workplace Skills Programmes (WSP) and Annual Training...
Exclusive Networks Africa signs up HCLSoftware
Exclusive Networks Africa has secured an agreement with HCLSoftware, the software business division of HCLTech, which will see the global trusted cybersecurity specialist for digital infrastructure add the HCLBigFix endpoint management platform to its existing...
Why is payroll business critical?
Payroll services make and break the relationships between companies and their employees. No matter how good the culture or friendly the environment is, nothing sours employee moods like being paid late or less than expected. Inadequate systems, lack of planning &...
The power of unified cloud protection
Security Service Edge (SSE) is poised to play a pivotal role in modern businesses by enhancing security, ensuring secure access to cloud services, improving network performance, optimising bandwidth utilisation, and enabling cost efficiency and scalability. By John Mc...
Pack the right digital boxes when travelling to the cloud
The move to the cloud can be of immense value to the organisation but should be done with meticulous planning to avoid bill shock while gaining the benefits, write Ashley Bruyns, head of engineering, and Stephen Bottger, executive: operations at Altron Systems...
How SMEs can set their defences against today’s cyber threats
What is the most dangerous trait of a cyberattack? Some use complex social manipulation to spear phish individuals. Others deploy weaponised artificial intelligence (AI) and sophisticated malware programmes to gain access and create chaos. By Hans-Peter Bauer, senior...
Resignation season a good time to shift new paradigm
A quick glance at global unemployment rates will routinely reveal that South Africa has the highest jobless population in the world. By Gary Silbermann, co-founder and innovation director at One Degree Digging a little deeper, one will find that unemployed graduates...
SA’s renewable energy uptake accelerates
As South Africa looks set for a continuation of an unprecedented level of power outages, many parts of the country are also facing looming threats of water shortages and a major input in electricity generation. Matthew Hall, chief of products at Rectron outlines the...
Unravelling African network security trends
The fear of cyber incidents has topped the Allianz Risk Barometer 2024 list as the most important business risk for the third consecutive year. Voted into the number one position by several countries across Africa, including Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria and Uganda, it's...
Business Analyst (Ref: 24142) – Gauteng Centurion
PURPOSE OF THIS ROLEAs part of the Business Analysis team, to assist the Corporation in implementing fit-for-purpose and fit-for-use cost-effective technology solutions by eliciting and analysing business systems and data requirements, compiling documentation for...
Intermediate .NET Developer (Blazor) – Cape Town (Contract) – Western Cape Cape Town
ENVIRONMENT:Our client, a company dedicated to enhancing service delivery excellence through information and communication technologies—a core function of Ce-I—is seeking an Intermediate .NET Developer. The role involves collaborating closely with other developers to...
Intermediate Business Analyst
A transformation partner that helps businesses digitize their operations is seeking a driven and collaborative Intermediate Business Analyst to join their Managed Services team. You'll play a key role in supporting their clients by enhancing existing software...
Mid-Level SharePoint Developer (6-Month Contract) (JHB Hybrid)
ENVIRONMENT:OUR client, a reputable Non-Profit with a mission to strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem, has an exciting 6-month renewable contract for a highly skilled Mid-Level SharePoint Developer to join its team. Your role will involve integrating...
Specialist Reporting & Data Analyst at Reverside
Reverside is an IT services provider; we are always looking for professional candidates to join our team in Software Development, providing opportunities to work on exciting projects, within our well-established client base. We're seeking a proactive, business-focused...
Junior Web Administrator (6 Months Contract)
Junior Website Administrator JOB DESCRIPTION Manage Portal Support Mailbox (currently has 113 new user support requests)Promptly answer web-support related emails, phone calls and other communications.Call mining companies (estimated at +/- 1300 mines) and assist them...
Intermediate Business Analyst – Gauteng Johannesburg
A transformation partner that helps businesses digitize their operations is seeking a driven and collaborative Intermediate Business Analyst to join their Managed Services team. You'll play a key role in supporting their clients by enhancing existing software...
Mid-Level SharePoint Developer (6-Month Contract) (JHB Hybrid) – Gauteng Bryanston
ENVIRONMENT:OUR client, a reputable Non-Profit with a mission to strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem, has an exciting 6-month renewable contract for a highly skilled Mid-Level SharePoint Developer to join its team. Your role will involve integrating...
Specialist Reporting & Data Analyst at Reverside – Gauteng Johannesburg
Reverside is an IT services provider; we are always looking for professional candidates to join our team in Software Development, providing opportunities to work on exciting projects, within our well-established client base. We're seeking a proactive, business-focused...
Junior Web Administrator (6 Months Contract) – Gauteng Sandton
Junior Website Administrator JOB DESCRIPTION Manage Portal Support Mailbox (currently has 113 new user support requests)Promptly answer web-support related emails, phone calls and other communications.Call mining companies (estimated at +/- 1300 mines) and assist them...
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