A study from Juniper Research has found that the number of consumer instant payments will exceed 235-billion in 2027; up from 74-billion in 2023. This growth of 218% will be driven by lower merchant acceptance costs when compared to traditional card schemes. This is...

Like a sports photographer at an auto-racing event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a series of photos of asteroid Dimorphos when it was deliberately hit by a 1 200-pound NASA spacecraft called DART on 26 September 2022. The primary objective of DART, which...

French President Emmanuel Macron and G7 leaders on Sunday approved a package totaling $251-million in support of the African Development Bank's AFAWA initiative to support women entrepreneurs in Africa. "I am particularly proud, as the current G7 president, that the...

The motor industry needs to come to grips with the fact that new competitors are the likes of Google, Netflix, Airbnb, Amazon, Uber Eats and Mr D Food. This is according to Ghana Msibi, CEO of WesBank Motor Division, speaking at the 2019 NAAMSA Automotive Conference,...

From 30 August to 8 September 2019 the Fak'ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival will return to Johannesburg to explore and celebrate technology and creativity by Africans for Africa. This year, the 2019 Fak'ugesi Festival has also partnered with the City of...

The annual iWeek Internet industry conference and exhibition kicked off yesterday (26 August) live at Joburg's landmark Indaba Hotel and Conference Centre and via streaming video in Soweto. iWeek represents an opportunity for the Internet Service Providers'...

A new World Economic Forum initiative, the Africa Growth Platform, has been launched with the goal of helping Africa's community of start-up enterprises grow and compete in international markets. The Africa Growth Platform will do this in three ways. First, it will...

Port requests can be rejected, says ICTGlobe.com, while offering consumers advice for ensuring their number porting requests are always actioned by their telecoms providers. The independent telco explains that South Africa launched number portability in 2006 with the...

A new wave of low-code app platforms is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to increase efficiency and automate workflow controls, making this form of app development an important component in the application modernisation toolbox. Charlotte Dunlap, application...

Automation may cause job cuts, but it also has the power to level the playing field if women can transition to the new workplace it will bring. Based on a report by the McKinsey Global Institute that looks at workplace transitions in the age of automation, technology...