 | IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
[Tom Jackson] Cape Town-based machine learning startup DataProphet, which develops and implements product development solutions to a wide range of industries, has now received a multi-million dollar funding round from Knife Capital... |
 | RETAIL  Nicholas Haralambous As store closures continue across the globe, we're witnessing the demise of physical retail as we know it... |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA  The PR Hustle... All images © Mick Creative. There's no denying those who work in the public relations and media industry work hard. But in 2018, it's all about working smarter, not harder. So if there's a way to streamline and simplify the process of both generating content and ensuring media coverage, both sides benefit. That's where Jana Leonard's PR Hustle fills a gap... |
 | ESG & SUSTAINABILITY
[Sindy Peters] Pontsho Manzi, managing director of Botlhokwa Group, is a businesswoman with the Midas touch... |
 | IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
[Ilse Burger] Following revelations that Cambridge Analytica exploited the personal data of millions of Facebook users, the social network is finding itself in a remarkably anti-social predicament... |
 | TOURISM, TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY
[Cari Coetzee] The QSL Members Club will be an incubator for Africa's leading lights, an organic platform for ideas to be birthed, connections to be forged and for plans to be set in motion... |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA  [Phumulele Mdima] In the last few years, traditional PR has been complemented by digital PR. Both are highly effective in their own ways, offering unique benefits to drive campaign results and contributing different tactics to build relationships...
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 | EDUCATION & TRAINING
[Robin Fredericks] Bottomup - a non-profit organisation in Edgemead, Cape Town - goes far and beyond to provide schools with programmes that nurture belonging and identity; undertaking to understand why the youth have become disconnected from education... |
 | FINANCE & INSURANCE  Marcus Swanepoel, CEO of Luno Existing financial systems are not able to meet the today's world's needs. It's evolving once again - just as money developed from favours to bartering to what it is today,.. |
 | AUTOMOTIVE  Totalled SUV automobile after drunk driving accident. © Jonathan Weiss via 123RF Despite ramped up awareness campaigns, highly publicised death toll statistics, and the imminent threat of a demerit system, drivers continue to get behind the wheel after having consumed too much alcohol... |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA
[Alison Treadaway] With the GDPR coming into effect on 25 May, SA companies do not have much time to get their email databases compliant and they face huge fines for breaches... |
| MARKETING & MEDIA
[Leigh Andrews] There's been much outrage among the social media set this week - not just over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but also over the severe lack of knowledge of female tech leaders... |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA  Bradley Elliott, founder of Continuon. Bradley Elliott, reveals the results of the world's first big brand social influencer survey by social intelligence company, Continuon... |
 | IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
[Carey van Vlaanderen] While analysts figure out new methodologies for analysing malware and users begin to understand how all this works, cybercriminals are seeking new ways to hide in phones and compromise devices, says Carey van Vlaanderen, CEO of ESET Southern Africa... |
| FINANCE & INSURANCE  Naomi Snyman, chair of the South African Financial Blockchain Consortium and blockchain lead for Standard Bank Banks are grappling with blockchain, applying it to almost everything from digital identity to cross border payments... |
| MARKETING & MEDIA
[Andy Walker] So people are talking about Facebook a lot this week. You know, that social network that only Baby Boomers seem to use now? It somehow has more than two-billion users at present, and that number for data collection firms is a goldmine just waiting to be ravaged... |
