Yellow Card, Visa accelerate stablecoin adoption
Yellow Card, a licensed stablecoin payments orchestrator for Africa and the emerging world, has partnered with Visa to explore stablecoin use cases and opportunities to streamline treasury operations, enhance liquidity management, and enable faster, more...
ISPA lays out its AfriNIC recommendations
ISPA, South Africa’s official internet Industry Representative Body (IRB), has shared its preferred candidates in the upcoming AfriNIC (The African Network Information Centre) elections for the board of Africa’s Regional Internet Registry (RIR). Voting for AfriNIC’s...
Visa’s ‘She’s Next’ program open for applications
For the second year running, Visa, in partnership with Absa, is rolling out its global advocacy programme, She’s Next, across South Africa – and entries are now open. According to the 2022 GEM SA survey, although women's involvement in entrepreneurship showed a...
New IP transit gateway for Africa opens in Joburg
Independent IP transit provider Workonline Communications has expanded its reach with a new point of presence (PoP) at Equinix’s JN1 data centre in Johannesburg. The relationship between Workonline Communications and Equinix have had a relationship since 2013, when...
Ethernet campus switch sales see Q1 surge
According to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group, 1Q 2025 worldwide Ethernet Campus Switch revenues grew by 3% year-over-year (Y/Y), with a sharp contraction in China pulling down worldwide sales. “As we predicted, the Ethernet Campus Switch market has now...
Building a competitive edge with GenAI in Africa
As organisations across Africa are starting to invest in generative AI (GenAI), they must carefully assess its business impact, ensure strategic deployment and account for potential hidden costs. By Shakeel Jhazbhay, GM: digital business solutions at Datacentrix The...
Why Africa must lead its own AI education revolution
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to sweep into higher education with Silicon Valley-style excitement, Africa faces a far more urgent and complex challenge, writes Dr Nyx McLean, head of research and postgraduate studies at Eduvos. While higher education...
Kaspersky eSIM Store simplifies global travel
Kaspersky eSIM Store is a new connectivity solution for international travel. Designed to make it easier for leisure and business travellers to stay online globally, it empowers users with easy Internet access across more than 150 countries and regions, with a choice...
Jaltech, Wetility seal R500m solar power deal
Wetility has secured a R500-million structured capital partnership with Jaltech to fund solar and battery systems. This will enable Wetility to add over 16 MW of solar capacity to the national distributed energy footprint, as well as avoid over 250 000 metric tons of...
What business travellers need to know this flu season
If you're a professional heading abroad for business this winter, there's more to think about than flights and meeting agendas. The South African Medical Association (SAMA) recently shared a warning about rising flu cases across the country. For business travellers,...
Ericsson, Google Cloud team on AI-powered 5G core as-a-service
Ericsson has launched Ericsson On-Demand, a new solution delivering core network services as a true software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to communications service providers (CSPs). The platform is designed with Google Cloud, leveraging AI infrastructure and Google...
Hisense users can watch the World Cup for free
Hisense SA has announced that users of its VIDAA-powered smart TVs will be able to watch every match of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 - live, and at no cost. As an official partner of the tournament, Hisense is offering fans across the globe, including South Africa,...