Women entrepreneurs get R1m boost
The MTN SA Foundation has named the top 10 finalists in this year’s R1-million MTN Women in Digital Business Challenge. Now in its fourth year, the challenge provides women entrepreneurs with an opportunity to expand their ICT businesses. “At the launch event held in...
Multichoice files new takeover regulation notice
While the finalisation of Multichoice’s acquisition by French media company Canal+ is still underway, a new shareholder has started buying up shares in the South African pay-TV operator. Multichoice yesterday afternoon (2 September) received formal notification that...
Vodacom partners with Circular Energy to reduce e-waste
As technology proliferates today’s society, e-waste has become one of the fastest-growing waste streams in the world – and South Africa is no exception. Looking to combat this burgeoning challenge, Vodacom SA has partnered with non-profit producer responsibility...
Apple’s $1,5bn Globalstar deal set to change direct-to-device satellite game
Apple plans to invest $1,1-billion in satellite communications company Globalstar alongside a further $400-million for a 20% equity stake in the business. Emma Mohr-McClune, chief analyst: technology at GlobalData, offers her view: “According to GlobalData, this...
Blockchain once again the darling of venture capitalists
After a significant slowdown last year, blockchain has again become an attractive sector for VCs in 2024, with the total value of deals outperforming 2023 figures two months before the end of the year. AltIndex.com says blockchain companies raised $10-billion in...
Two-phase liquid cooling the future of GPUs
As of 2024, single-phase direct-to-chip (D2C) cooling dominates the high-end GPU thermal management market, according to new research from IDTechEx – however, with the increasing thermal design power (TDP), two-phase D2C cooling will be required and is expected to...
CIOs must overcome challenges to deliver AI value
A Gartner survey of 451 senior technology leaders in the second quarter of 2024, found that 45% of CIOs in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) said they are tasked with leading an artificial intelligence (AI( strategy in their enterprise. However, four emerging...
Fraud accounts for a quarter of SA’s financial crime
Fraud has been the most frequently recorded type of financial crime in South Africa – accounting for 26% according to an analysis by LSEG Risk Intelligence. The research showed that control or regulation violations and theft and embezzlement took second and third...
AI agents step up as consumer trust slips
Consumer trust in companies is at a record low – but artificial intelligence (AI) is raising the stakes for brands, according to Salesforce’s latest State of the AI Connected Customer research. Today, 60% of consumers believe that advances in AI make trust even more...
Supply chain risks under the spotlight
A big majority of organisations were negatively impacted by a supply chain cyber breach over the past 12 months, each suffering 3,7 breaches on average. This is among the findings of BlueVoyant’s fifth annual global survey into supply chain cyber risk management. The...
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MTN commits R170m for EC network modernisation
MTN has committed an additional R170 million investment in the Eastern Cape. The MTN Network currently provides coverage to over 98% of the population in the province and over 87% of the population already have LTE coverage. "In the past six months MTN has made...
Working models during and after the pandemic
As we enter level 3 what does the working environment look like from a safety, health and environment (SHE) point of view? Sello Malete, head of regulatory affairs, quality assurance, SHE and facilities at Roche Diagnostics, shares insight into new ways of working...
Job creation can reboot SA’s ICT transformation
South Africa's ICT sector, which has come under renewed pressure to transform in recent months, is increasingly looking to NPO YES (Youth Employment Service) to help create a new cohort of tech-skilled youth through YES's turnkey implementation partner model....
Why move to the cloud?
Moving to the cloud is the key to succeeding in the digital era. Many business leaders are making this move to improve security, flexibility, and agility whilst others are doing it to keep relevant and productive, ultimately with the bottom line in mind. By Garry...
Online University of the People expands in SA
University of the People (UoPeople) has announced its plans to increase its reach among South African students, with local enrolment having expanded from 13 students in 2015 to nearly 1 600 students today. UoPeople is the first non-profit, tuition-free,...
Digital trends are transforming higher education
Pandemic life has resulted in a rapid shift to digitisation, most notably in the education sector. This has meant that teachers, students and parents had to acclimatise to remote e-learning via digital platforms. As a result, traditional face to face teaching methods...
Why the privacy role is more important than ever
The time has come for all organisations to recognise the importance of the privacy role and to see it as a standalone function within the operating model. Cyrus Ndyamba, Bizmod's privacy consultant, says that although the data privacy and information security...
Digital retail and its relationship with data
With more South Africans shopping online than ever, retailers have had to rethink their digital strategies, especially when it comes to data analysis and optimising the supply chain. By Vishalan Moodley at TechSoft International Consumers can buy just about anything...
Remote working enabled with purpose-designed laptops by HP- brought to you by Axiz
With work from home (WFH) having become mainstream in South Africa since the first Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020, there’s consensus that the “new normal” will see a hybrid working model emerge, with employees accessing the corporate network at least partly from out...
Put employee experience, wellbeing at centre of hybrid work strategies
The rise of hybrid work models - in large part as a response to the pandemic - is forcing radical change within organisations and their HR departments. By Cameron Beveridge, regional director for southern Africa at SAP The past 18 months have had a transformative...
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SAP ABAP Developer – 0974
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