Category: Technology

DAVOS – South Africa – and indeed the rest of the continent – is perfectly poised to lead the charge around technologies such as blockchain. Global blockchain financial services and advisory company Diginex is in the process of setting up a hub in Cape Town with a view to expanding into Africa as it looks […]

Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp messenger service is globally limiting the number of times a user can forward a message to five, in a bid to fight “misinformation and rumours”, company executives said on Monday. “We’re imposing a limit of five messages all over the world as of today,” Victoria Grand, vice president for policy and communications […]

The Digital Skills Partnership is a strategic collaboration between key stakeholders in the digital industry committed to transforming the sector by redesigning the traditionally onerous employment pathways into jobs for unemployed youth. 98 percent of South African Chief Executives said that they are worried about the availability of key skills for the future (PwC 21st […]

Facebook removed hundreds of pages on Thursday it said posed as independent news sites in eastern Europe and elsewhere but were actually run by employees at Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik. Facebook (FB) said the 364 pages and accounts had almost 800,000 followers and had spent around $135,000 on ads on the platform between October […]

Microsoft South Africa has announced that it has appointed Lillian Barnard as its new Managing Director, effective March 1, 2019. This comes after Zoaib Hoosen resigned from his position and Barnard will replace him. Since his appointment in 2014, Hoosen has successfully driven Microsoft’s growth in South Africa, overseeing the business’ evolution to the cloud and […]

The South African Reserve Bank on Tuesday asked for public comment on a policy paper outlining the perceived risks and benefits associated with crypto assets, the available regulatory approaches around them and proposals to industry participants and stakeholders. In 2014, the National Treasury warned members of the public about the risks associated with the use […]

Several Chinese electronics retailers including Alibaba-backed Suning and JD.com have slashed iPhone prices this week, after Apple recently blamed poor sales of the smartphone in the country for a rare revenue warning. The discounting, as steep as $118 for the recently launched 64GB iPhone XR, is the latest sign that Apple’s weak holiday sales in […]

Google announced that it will expand its ads blocking feature to the rest of the world on the 9th of July after it was launched in the United States, Canada, and Europe last year. Based on guidelines developed by the Coalition For Better Ads, a trade group the company helped launch. The guidelines prohibit websites from […]

It is widely recognised that tourism has the potential to help South Africa and other African countries grow their economies and create jobs. Tourism is contributing for around 9 percent of South Africa’s gross domestic product, a growth to the economy of R412.5 billion in 2017, which translates into 1.5 million jobs or 9.5 percent […]

Norway is considering whether to join other western nations in excluding China’s Huawei Technologies from building part of the Nordic country’s new 5G telecommunications infrastructure, its justice minister said on Wednesday. The Norwegian government is currently discussing measures to reduce potential vulnerabilities in its telecoms industry ahead of the upgrade. State-controlled operator Telenor, which has […]