SA’s e-commerce boom hides a profit crisis
South Africa’s e-commerce sector is booming. The market is on track to surpass R130-billion in turnover this year. Local online sales are growing at roughly 20% and the sector handles over 100-million shipments annually. According to World Wide Worx, online shopping...
Where to start with your CV when you have no work experience
There is a general belief that you need experience to get a job - but you need a job to get experience. By Nolundi Matomane, talent acquisition manager at Pnet The truth is that a well-crafted CV can open doors even when you do not yet have a history of formal...
Why cloud modernisation stalls after migration
Modernisation in South African business should be anchored by cloud-native practices that deliver value across productivity, market relevance, and resilience. Innovation remains a prominent priority on the corporate agenda, yet many modernisation initiatives fail to...
NetScout extends adaptive DDoS protection
NetScout announced an extension of its Adaptive DDoS Protection (ADP) solution enabling service providers to automatically detect and mitigate outbound DDoS attack traffic. By extending protection from the attack target towards its source, NetScout helps operators...
Facilities intelligence helps build connected checkouts, smarter buildings, always-on POS
For most operations leaders, a point-of-sale system is where a transaction ends. A customer taps a card, a receipt prints, the sale closes. Facilities management sits somewhere else entirely, in a different department, often a different budget line, dealing with a...
Rhenus Logistics wins Samsung Best Supplier Award
Rhenus Logistics Southern Africa has been recognised with Samsung's Best Supplier Award 2025. The award recognises Rhenus' consistent commitment to service quality, reliability and innovation in supporting Samsung's supply chain requirements across Southern Africa....
FleetDomain hits new growth milestone
FleetDomain, a Smollan Technologies company, has revealed a record 417% growth in assets managed over figures released at the end of 2022. The company operates in the fleet management sector delivering globally competitive software solutions for the maintenance,...
Crackdowns alone won’t stop online wildlife trafficking
A new major global review shows that platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube are fueling a fast-growing and difficult-to-track illegal wildlife trade. The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Dr Annette Hübschle, a co-author of the study, says closing...
AWS and Nvidia to deliver 2m more GPUs and AI infrastructure
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Nvidia have announced a major expansion of their strategic collaboration to meet surging global demand for AI infrastructure as demand continues to accelerate. Building on already-rapid customer adoption of Nvidia-accelerated compute on...
AI spend by customer service surges
AI spending by customer service leaders has surged despite near-stagnant overall budget growth for customer service and support functions, according to a survey by Gartner. Customer service organisations are prioritising technology investments as AI rapidly reshapes...
AI vulnerabilities grew 10-fold in the first half of this year
The growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is happening across multiple sectors and has also led to an increase in the number of vulnerabilities discovered within AI services, according to Kaspersky’s Quarterly Exploits and Vulnerabilities Report. It’s a...
Ebolavirus vaccine candidate advances to clinical trials
African biopharmaceutical company Minapharm Group, headquartered in Egypt with subsidiaries in Berlin, will receive up to $16,5-million from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to advance the development of a Bundibugyo ebolavirus vaccine...