Compromised Amazon Simple Email Service accounts under attack
Kaspersky has detected phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks that are leveraging Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) – a cloud-based email service designed for businesses and developers to send and receive high-volume marketing, notification, and...
Booking.com opens applications for 2026 Hospitality Growth Programme
Booking.com has opened applications for its 2026 Hospitality Growth Programme. The programme gives South African accommodation owners in key tourism regions a new opportunity to grow. It also builds on a strong pilot that delivered a 92% participant satisfaction...
New shocks for SA’s agricultural outlook
South Africa’s agricultural sector enters the next cycle against a backdrop of unusually elevated global uncertainty. While the industry has performed well in recent years, despite logistics constraints and biological risks, a convergence of geopolitical tensions,...
US users prefer built-in security over traditional AV
According to the second annual Antivirus Market Report 2026 from cybersecurity news portal Cybernews, built-in operating system tools have overtaken traditional third-party antivirus software as the primary line of defense for the majority of US internet users. The...
Cybersecurity is no longer an IT problem. It’s an exercise in risk tolerance
South African businesses have evolved alongside the reality of the country’s physical infrastructure challenges. By Tony Anscombe, chief security evangelist at ESET Organisations instinctively build redundancies for power, whether that takes the form of solar...
Sage expands developer platform with AI tools
Sage has announced new tools and commercial options designed to make it easier for developers and partners to build, launch and scale solutions across Sage products. The update introduces a more unified developer experience across Sage Intacct, Sage X3 and Sage...
GoTyme Bank hits 1m app migrations
GoTyme Bank (formerly TymeBank) has had more than 1-million downloads of its new app, just three months since its launch. Customers were able to transition to the new app with minimal disruption. All banking information and personal data – including accounts, balances...
SAS expands SAS Viya with AI
SAS has announced expansions to SAS Viya that advance the platform’s agentic AI features, introducing new AI assistants, agent infrastructure and acceleration tools. Together, these updates build on SAS Viya’s existing AI foundation, helping organisations move from...
Africa must think in grid-scale power to compete in the AI economy
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally reshaping global energy demand, with implications that extend well beyond traditional power planning. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the growing energy footprint of data centres. Facilities...
Ozow expands payment ecosystem
Ozow has announced a new partnership with Happy Pay that will enable its merchants to offer buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) at checkout, without requiring any additional integration. South Africa’s BNPL market was projected to grow to over $815-milliomn (approximately...
Santi4 modernises investment management
Santi4, a next-generation investment technology platform, has launched with R720-billion ($35-billion) in client assets under administration, and is positioned to reach the R1-trillion ($58-billion) milestone within the next year. The platform enters the market with...
Connectivity fails when people can’t use it
As South Africa prepares to mark World Telecommunication and Information Society Day on 17 May, the conversation around connectivity is shifting from infrastructure to impact. Vuyani Jarana, CEO of Ilitha Telecommunications, says the next phase of South Africa’s...