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Put you in Youth Month
Put you in Youth Month
[Issued by Bizcommunity.com] To coincide with Youth Month and CSI Month we're publishing a two-month Content Highlight burst aiming to provide our 464,000 local and global readers with a comprehensive snapshot of the state of CSI projects and programmes in our region... read
Call for entries: Startup Tel Aviv South Africa contest
Call for entries: Startup Tel Aviv South Africa contest

The Startup Tel Aviv South Africa innovation contest is now open for entries. It gives new South African startups the opportunity to visit Israel to experience "Startup Nation"... Read

All the MTN IoT Awards winners!
All the MTN IoT Awards winners!

The second annual MTN Internet of Things Awards celebrated the best of South Africa's market-ready IoT solutions, applications and developers... Read

Enterprise app development on the back burner
Enterprise app development on the back burner

In this year's Gartner mobile app survey*, results have shown that more than a quarter of organisations globally have not built, customised or virtualised any mobile apps in the last 12 months Read

App and website development
The value of investing in location-based services
The value of investing in location-based services
Digitalisation is a trend offering many opportunities both for private individuals and for enterprises. Gartner already puts the number of devices connected via the internet at over 8.4 billion. And the figure is rising rapidly... read
Cyber Security
Web Application Threat Trend (WATT) report released from 2016
Web Application Threat Trend (WATT) report released from 2016

Issued by Cloudbric

Trends show that hacking attempts targeting web applications vary greatly by industry, with SQL injection accounting for the highest percentage in transportation and manufacturing-related industries... read
Data Management
Barclay, Spratt and St Clair.
#IMCConf 2017: The artificially intelligent business of big data

Leigh Andrews

Matthew Barclay of Meltwater, Brett St Clair of Barclay Africa and Justin Spratt of Uber SSA kicked off IMC Conference 2017 at the White Space in Red & Yellow School Cape Town with a session focused on big data, how AI will fundamentally change the world of work and its specific business implications... read
Pezisa, Adao and Bus.
#IMCConf 2017: Cracking big ideas in the cognitive era

Leigh Andrews

The second session of the IMC2017 was all about going back to basics in defining the core principles of big ideas that work; how to disrupt or be disrupted as we enter the fourth industrial revolution; and the sad truth that as consumers, we are still being communicated at, not communicated with... read
Madelein de Beer selected as finalist for Africa's Most Influential Women in Business and Government
Madelein de Beer selected as finalist for Africa's Most Influential Women in Business and Government

Issued by Praesignis

This award shortlisting acknowledges Madelein's 21-year career in data management and business intelligence... read
Harnessing digital innovation to enable smart supply chains
Harnessing digital innovation to enable smart supply chains

Issued by Barloworld Logistics

To identify the impact of digitisation, Barloworld Logistics explored two specific digital trends as part of its 2017 supply chain foresight report... read
Internet
How your ISP can affect your bottom line
How your ISP can affect your bottom line

Jarryd Chatz, Issued by BitCo

Is your internet service provider helping you use business connectivity to drive profits or simply letting it become a drain on your expendable bank balance? Jarryd Chatz, CEO of BitCo, explores this question... read
Software
Candace van Zyl
The need for smarter CRM software

Candace van Zyl

With the shift from product-focused to customer-focused business in most organisations in the modern world, CRM software is at the forefront of customer satisfaction... read
Tech Startups
Call for African startups to join PitchDrive tech hub tour
Call for African startups to join PitchDrive tech hub tour
Nigerian technology innovation centre, Co-creation Hub (CcHUB), and Google for Entrepreneurs have launched PitchDrive, a three week, five-city European tech hub tour... read
#StartupStory: FOMO Travel
#StartupStory: FOMO Travel

Ilse van den Berg

With the Barclays Accelerator 2017 Africa programme well underway, we chat to our first startup, FOMO Travel, about how the business is making travel affordable and debt free... read
Willmott and Moulder proving their skills both behind and in front if the selfie lens...
#BehindtheSelfie with... Gary Willmott and Anton Moulder of Urbian

Leigh Andrews

This week we find out what's really going on behind the selfie with Gary Willmott and Anton Moulder, co-founders and managing partners of Cape-based digital product studio, Urbian... read
Technology
Rise of the computers
Rise of the computers

Hasan Variawa, Issued by Damelin

Computers are playing a crucial role in everything from research to shopping. This has created a whole new niche market of job opportunities for the tech savvy learner or aspiring IT specialist... read
Powering up Africa with technology
Powering up Africa with technology
Technology and the impact it will inevitably have on the sector is at the forefront of all the conversations in the African utilities space, bringing constructive solutions to challenges... read
Digitising your supply chain
Digitising your supply chain

Miguel Jorge

The combination of cloud computing, mobility, and digitisation enables businesses to be proactive and improve logistics processes cost effectively... read
Online shopping and the rapid globalisation of shoppers and retailers
Online shopping and the rapid globalisation of shoppers and retailers

Mark McCallum

Rapidly evolving technologies, changing demographics, and consumer preferences have created a change in the consumer product industry... read
Networking opportunities at Cannes expanded through technology
Networking opportunities at Cannes expanded through technology
Cannes Lions has joined forces with Accenture Interactive, launching new ways to network at the festival... read
Telecommunications
Telkom spokesperson Jacqui O'Sullivan.
Telkom's restructure and marketing RFP tangle

Leigh Andrews

NEWSWATCH: While news that Telkom is set to restructure into four specific business units by the end of March 2018 has been positively accepted, its current marketing RFP pitch process is raising concerns - here's their official response... read
MTN faces $4.2bn high court claim from Turkcell
MTN faces $4.2bn high court claim from Turkcell

Thabiso Mochiko

MTN faces a $4.2bn high court claim from Turkcell in the latest chapter of a long-running legal dispute over the South African group's Iranian mobile network operator licence... read
Africa
Microsoft launches AppFactory Academy in Ethiopia
Microsoft launches AppFactory Academy in Ethiopia

Tom Jackson

Microsoft 4Afrika, Wollo University and Tulane University's Centre for Global Health Equity (CGHE) have joined forces to launch a new AppFactory Academy in Ethiopia... read
Digitised loan payments a boost for smallholder farmers in Kenya
Digitised loan payments a boost for smallholder farmers in Kenya
One Acre Fund and Citi Inclusive Finance successfully digitised loan repayments for farmers in Kenya - boosting transparency and efficiency, driving economic opportunity and financial inclusion for thousands of smallholders... read
Cloud services from within Africa
Cloud services from within Africa
Microsoft to deliver Microsoft Cloud from datacentres in Africa to enable greater innovation, entrepreneurship and economic growth... read
2017 Mobile 360 - Africa open for registration
2017 Mobile 360 - Africa open for registration
The 2017 Mobile 360 - Africa conference, which will take place from 11-13 July 2017 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, is now open for registration... read
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Business
Raimund Snyders, CEO of Old Mutual Insure
Goodbye Mutual & Federal, hello Old Mutual Insure
As of today, Mutual & Federal will be known as Old Mutual Insure... read
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  • Vernon Fryer joins NEC Africa as head of cyber security - more info

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