A South African app is offering to bring users more of what they love using a clever, insightful artificial intelligence (AI) tool. Jottr is a South African start-up making it big in Silicon Valley. Their first content-driven app promises to read a user’s mind like a book. Connected to thousands of valuable content sources, it delivers the ultimate personalised experience through clever analysis of a user’s behaviour.
Local video on-demand service VIDI has become the first-to-market in South Africa with a streaming Smart TV app. The company is partnering with Samsung Smart TV to provide easy access to hours of TV series and feature films. Viewers prefer watching their home entertainment on their wide screen televisions and now, with no effort, audiences can enjoy hours of top-class VIDI entertainment on their television sets.
The 2015 South African E-commerce Awards continued to see solid growth this year, with more than 200 Web sites entering. The awards, now in their 10th year, are designed to recognise and reward those South African Web sites that have demonstrated excellence in their use of the Internet as a platform for commerce.