While cash remains king as a means of payment in emerging markets, the proliferation of technology and the ever-increasing demand for instant and fast payments are changing the way businesses, retailers and consumers transact daily. And with Black Friday just around...

Winners of the 15th Africa Tech Festival Awards - formerly AfricaCom Awards- were announced this week in Cape Town as the annual event one again celebrated record attendances. "It has been refreshing and energising being back in face-to-face contact with the...

Black Friday will take place globally this Friday (23 November) and is widely considered the busiest shopping day of the year. As retailers beef up on security to control massive in-store crowds, online retailers are enhancing their systems to prevent infamous website...

Intel has introduced the Intel Neural Compute Stick 2 (Intel NCS 2), designed to build smarter AI algorithms and for prototyping computer vision at the network edge. Based on the Intel Movidius Myriad X vision processing unit (VPU) and supported by the Intel...

Robotic process automation (RPA) will be commonplace in finance departments by 2020 - but implementations are likely to encounter failures at three key stages, according to Gartner. "Unlike many new technologies, RPA has the potential to deliver significant business...

South Africa's oldest and largest bus company, the Public Utility Transport Corporation (Putco), has recorded impressive performance metrics in passenger safety, fuel management and improved driver behaviour over the past 18 months, following the implementation of a...

Travellers in South Africa are becoming increasingly digitally dependent when it comes to planning, booking and experiencing travel. According to Travelport's Global Digital Traveller Research 2018, nearly half (46%) of travellers in South Africa are now using voice...

The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) will launch its government private cloud on 23 November. Cloud computing is widely acknowledged as key to driving the journey through the fourth industrial revolution, marked by the profund integration of technology into...

Cognity Advisory's Universities Business Challenge (UBC), sponsored by General Electric (GE) and launched in July this year, has seen 500 students from 13 different universities across South Africa participate in a business simulation competition that's designed to...

To get ahead of cyber adversaries, organisations will start to use more automation to combat threats. "We are seeing significant advances in cybercriminal tools and services which leverage automation and the precursors of artificial intelligence (AI)," says Derek...