Schneider Electric opens first African Innovation Hub
Schneider Electric has launched its first Innovation Hub in Africa. Based in Midrand, it is part of Schneider Electric’s global network of over 40 registered Innovation Hubs, providing an interactive environment where visitors can explore the company’s integrated...
Joburg is still Africa’s top data centre location
Johannesburg officially confirmed its position as Africa’s digital infrastructure powerhouse. The new Cushman & Wakefield 2025 Global Data Centre Market Comparison ranks Johannesburg as the continent’s leading data centre market and places it in the top 10...
Entrepreneurs drive retail growth
South African small businesses are experiencing an unprecedented boom, with more than 200 000 entrepreneurs processing 173-million transactions and driving over half a billion rand in measurable growth over the past year. This is according to Yoco's 2025 Exchange...
2025 set to break crypto crime records
With criminals stealing a record-breaking amount of money, this year is shaping up to be crypto's most dangerous yet - in just six months, their illicit activities have caused more financial damage than recorded during the entire years of 2023 or 2024. According to...
New chief executive for Openserve
Telkom has appointed Beauty Apleni as CEO of Openserve effective 1 July, saying she will drive the continuing growth and adoption of Openserve’s fibre network in pursuit of the group’s data-led strategy. Apleni has more than 25 years of experience in the ICT industry...
WeThinkCode_ secures $2m grant to scale AI training
South African tech academy WeThinkCode_ has been awarded $2-million in funding from Google.org. The grant will enable WeThinkCode_ to dramatically expand its artificial intelligence (AI) training programs, empowering 12 000 learners in South Africa and Kenya with...
Enterprises reopening their wallets for SASE spend
Global Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) revenue rose 17% percent year-on-year to $2,6-billion in the first quarter of 2025 propelled by a 21% jump in single-vendor deployments as enterprises prioritised more straightforward purchasing, tighter policy management, and...
Gen Z’s favourite games feature in 19m attempted attacks
Over the course of a year, from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, Kaspersky detected over 19-million attempts to download malicious or unwanted files disguised as popular Gen Z games. With GTA, Minecraft and Call of Duty among the most exploited, it's clear that...
Bolt SA’s fleet partner secures $10m in funding
Bolt South Africa’s key fleet partner, MyNextCar (MNC), has successfully closed its first funding round, raising $10-million from Emso Asset Management, with the support of Bolt, Assemble Capital, and E2 Investments. The funding validates the early success of Bolt...
Ethical fintech key to digitising the kasi economy
With an estimated annual turnover exceeding R750-billion, South Africa’s informal or ‘kasi’ economy been tapped as a key growth sector for financial services. As fintechs race to digitise payments and expand access in this space, industry leaders are calling for a...
Salus Cloud secures $3,7m seed funding
Salus Cloud, the AI-native platform for Developer & Security Operations (DevSecOps) for engineers, has closed a $3,7-million Seed round to advance its mission of accelerating access to secure software delivery across Africa, the Middle East, and other growth...
Stadio launches mobile network to tackle data costs
The high cost of mobile data continues to be a major barrier to education, particularly for students in higher learning institutions. As these institutions increasingly move towards blended and online learning models, access to affordable, reliable internet is no...