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 | Colin Thornton Yes, I know what you're thinking...this sounds like some kind of twisted geek version of Fifty Shades of Grey. And while I hope our message can instil the same kind of reader and media frenzy as that soft porn novel and film, it is admittedly a far more sombre (and arguably far more important) topic for discussion: IT security and mobility... read |
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 | Issued by GetSmarter Data analysis is rated as one of the most sort-after and lucrative skills to have and represents a great career opportunity for anyone with the right aptitude... read |
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 | Designed to foster local ehealth innovation, Digital Health Cape Town (DHCT) has opened applications for its accelerator programme... read |
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 | Cari Coetzee TRVL is a peer-to-peer booking platform that gives everyone access to the travel agent world. We chat to founder and CEO Jochem Wijnands about his new startup that is set to cause a stir in the travel industry... read |
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 | Arno Hattingh, Issued by Smartlink In South Africa the air B&B market has surpassed all other forms of rental accommodation online booking sites and many South Africans have latched onto the idea of letting their homes over peak holiday periods for a good income... read |
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 | CIOs should leverage machine learning to turn the tsunami of data obtained in Internet of Things (IoT) deployments into actionable insights. This is according to a new report from Forrester. read |
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 | The winners in the Attacq Smart Cities Innovation Challenge were recently announced, each receiving incubation support from the LaunchLab in addition to a share of R100,000 seed funding from Attacq... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant On his visit to South Africa for the MMA (Mobile Marketing Association) Forum in Johannesburg on 2 November and Mobile Monday in Cape Town on 6 November, Adam Pattison, vice president, Americas & EMEA at BBM Messenger, shared insights into chat or dark social and how this is shaping the mobile economy... read |
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 | Zimbabwe's #datafree Zim News app spikes to more than 3 million daily page views as citizens seek information on crisis... read |
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 | Lynette Hundermark We love mobile and have been fortunate enough to work on the initial versions of many of South Africa's leading apps over the last seven years... read |
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 | Anton Cabral More feared than JK Rowling's Dementors, disruptors are proving to be the nightmare of established brick-and-mortar (B&M) businesses around the world... read |
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 | Issued by Hetzner WordCamp is a casual WordPress-centred conference organised by the local WordPress communities in various cities around the world... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Inspired by the global trend towards giving back instead of getting on Black Friday, local home cleaning company SweepSouth is transferring the savings it would usually give to its customers on a day like this and handing them back to its 'SweepStars'. Here's how it works... read |
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 | Recognising and rewarding innovative ideas that have the potential to significantly impact the Gauteng economy, the 2017 GAP Innovation Competition winners in each category have been announced... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant John Sanei, business innovation strategist, trend specialist, futurist and author of South African bestseller What's your moonshot?, has been invited to join Singularity University's panel of global speakers... read |
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 | Google SA has announced the launch of the 2017 Connected Consumer Study, conducted by research group Kantar TNS... read |
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 | Sarah Barns Sidewalk Labs, the urban innovation startup owned by Google's parent company Alphabet, has announced a partnership with the City of Toronto to develop a new waterfront precinct... read |
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 | Chinese web giant Baidu unveiled a smart speaker model and plans for a self-driving mini-bus, its latest foray into the hyper-competitive field of artificial intelligence... read |
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 | Traditionally, hotels focus on personal customer service and luxury, but the scene is changing - it is evolving to become an experience in technological advancement with various online and automated services to choose from... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Rapelang Rabana, one of the highly anticipated speakers at last week's BCX Disrupt Summit, shares the crux of her talk on moving from innovative ideas to profitable solution and why sitting back is simply not an option for any competitive industry... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Nick Goldman, one of the highly anticipated speakers at last week's BCX Disrupt Summit, shares the importance of conferences like BCX Disrupt, as well as the crux of his talk on the importance of long-lasting digital archives... read |
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 | Gabriella Mulligan Local startup Deya feels it's high-time to shake up the status quo, and has embarked on a mission to bring Angolan crowdfunding into the digital age... read |
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 | Nick Hedley MTN Benin says it will comply with a deadline set by the country's telecommunications regulator, which has warned that the mobile operator could face sanctions over unpaid fees... read |
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 | Calestous Juma Africa has become a testing ground for technological leapfrogging... read |
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 | Meet the startups pitching at Seedstars Africa, December 12-14, 2017, in Maputo, Mozambique... read |
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 | Lauren Hartzenberg Retailers and consumers alike are readying themselves for snaking queues and extended shopping hours in-store and online this Black Friday, falling on 24 November this year... read |
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