Consumers start questioning GenAI in marketing
Half of US consumers (50%) say they would prefer to give their business to brands that do not use GenAI, according to a new survey by Gartner. In this survey, “brands that use GenAI” refers to brands incorporating GenAI in consumer-facing messages, advertising, and...
Home Affairs rolls out MEETS visa scheme
The Department of Home Affairs has launched the new Meetings, Exhibitions, Events and Tourism Scheme (MEETS), a visa reform designed to boost South Africa as a global destination for international conferences, exhibitions, sporting tournaments and major cultural and...
SA student short-listed for $100k prize
Uatshila Munenyiwa, a data science and mechanical engineering student at Stanford University, has been named to the top 50 shortlist for the Chegg.org Global Student Prize 2025, an annual $100 000 award given to one exceptional student who has made a significant...
Peach Payments goes live with MoneyBadger
Peach Payments has partnered with South African Bitcoin and crypto payments solution provider MoneyBadger to enable its merchants to accept payment in Bitcoin and other crypto assets. Anine de Kock, head of partnerships at Peach Payments, says: “MoneyBadger is...
When does using GenAI become unethical?
Generative AI (GenAI) is proving increasingly indispensable for certain aspects of daily work, raising questions about the ethics of passing its output off as one’s own work - and the fairness of pitting AI-generated content against human-generated content. This is...
Tariff and trade war the top emerging risk
The escalating tariff and trade war moved into the top rank of emerging risks for the second quarter of 2025, according to Gartner. The Quarterly Emerging Risk Report series captures enterprise risk management (ERM) leaders’, risk management professionals’, auditors’,...
SharePoint ToolShell vulnerabilities stem from incomplete fix
Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) reveals that the recently exploited ToolShell vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint originate from an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-1147, first reported in 2020. The SharePoint vulnerabilities have emerged as a...
‘Explosion of investment’ hovers over AI
Ninety nine percent of institutional investors and wealth managers believe that the artificial intelligence (AI) market is on the brink of a seismic shift, according to a new study by fund manager Robocap. More than a quarter (28%) of investors and wealth managers...
How teachers and parents can help children use GenAI responsibly
As the third school term kicks off, homework, projects and study sessions are back on the agenda and for many learners, that now includes help from generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). We know learners around the world have embraced GenAI tools like Claude and...
Tech companies take pragmatic approach to ESG
The technology sector’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) activities in the second quarter of 2025 have been characterised by incremental progress and pragmatic approaches to changing geopolitical circumstances, says GlobalData. Robert Pritchard, principal...
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New chairman for IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa
IBM has announced that Ana Paula Assis, GM of IBM Europe, Middle East & Africa will take on the expanded role of chairman: Europe, Middle East & Africa, succeeding Martin Jetter, who is retiring from IBM at the end of 2022 after 36 years of service to the...
Upskilling, reskilling helps overcome data science skills shortage
Across the world, there is a growing shortage of data science skills in businesses. According to the 2020 World Economic Forum: "As jobs are transformed by the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we need to reskill more than 1 billion people worldwide by...
Robotic coding software for schools launched in SA
Sangari Education has launched CoderZ, STEM robotic learning software for pupils from six years and older and used by Amazon for its Future Engineer competition that attracts hundreds of thousands of students worldwide. CoderZ is an online learning environment similar...
Convenience stores must automate or be left behind
Convenience retailers looking to stay relevant must improve, streamline, and automate in-store operations to elevate the customer experience. This is according to Andrew Blatherwick, chairman emeritus and advisor at Relex Solutions. Previously, a convenience store's...
WeThinkCode_ conference plots a path towards sustainable digital skills
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Vodacom Business partners with tech start-up
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Telehealth platform Contro closes oversubscribed R10,1m pre-seed round
Contro, a South African telehealth start-up that focuses on sexual health and confidence treatment services has announced the close of their oversubscribed pre-seed funding round, raising a total of R10,1-million. Investment was raised from four international and...
Huawei offers partner value-adds
Huawei in on an active recruitment drive to sign up partners for its new Commercial Division. The company is building up its business channel system and looking to partner with a variety of different partners with experience in the commercial market, who understand...
AfricaCom 2022: As Africa embraces 5G, 4G and LTE still have massive roles to play
Dr Mohamed Madkour, VP, Global Carrier Network Solutions & Marketing, Huawei HQ led a roundtable in which he underlined how important 4G and LTE will continue to be for Africa’s digital and economic development, even as the continent embraces 5G at an ever-greater...
Shift to online drives retail transformation
The demise of brick-and-mortar stores has long been talked about, and the idea seemed to gain momentum during the multiple lockdowns that pushed more South Africans toward online shopping. By Heath Huxtable, executive head of Braintree by Vox While the end of physical...
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