SA start-up makes wave with AI app

Aug 21, 2015

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.

Demo Day for global start-up lab

Jul 9, 2015

MIT Global Start-up Labs (GSL), a multidisciplinary group out of MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives) that promotes development in emerging regions by cultivating young technology entrepreneurs, is currently running in Johannesburg. GSL...

Top tips for online start-ups

Jul 7, 2015

So you’ve decided to go online. Here are a few basic tips by Wilmari Strachan, director and tech specialist at Werksmans Attorneys. Register a domain name, trademarks and get social media handles Firstly, make sure that the name you want to use is not already...

WunderBar start-up impresses at CeBIT

Mar 23, 2015

The WunderBar, which allows developers to retro-fit sensors to items and so create an Internet of Things (IoT) from existing objects, has won the CODE_n Award presented to the most promising start-up showcasing its technology at last week’s CeBIT show in Hanover. The...

Moving beyond the start-up phase

Feb 13, 2015

Building a great business involves more than just hard work, good networking skills, and a fair degree of luck, says Nick Bell, CEO of Decision Inc. Whilst the core of any good business venture is a business that enables you to satisfy a customer’s need in a unique or...