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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Technology companies have the opportunity to thrive as key players in the age of the digital revolution. With the agenda of the 4IR currently at the forefront in South Africa, the empowerment of small tech businesses is critical especially as they are the backbone of the economy... read
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ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM
Afro-disruption and Afro-centrism will be trending when Bizcommunity, in association with Ster-Kinekor and Kantar, brings you BizTrendsLIVE!2020, on Thursday, 30 January 2020... Read
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ODETTE VAN DER HAAR
The business world is highly competitive and this applies to the largest of corporations all the way to the smallest of entrepreneurs. The economy has been merciless and no-one in business has been unaffected. In order to stay in business, one needs to stay abreast with technology and remain up to date with the latest innovations... Read
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JOSEPHINE BUYS
In his state of the nation speech in 2019, President Ramaphosa pledged to ensure that within the next five years, every 10-year-old child would be able to read for meaning. I applaud this vision, but realise it's not without its challenges and government cannot do this alone... Read
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TANJA LATEGAN
As artificial intelligence (AI) become increasingly pervasive, so have headlines about robots taking people's jobs. While there's undoubtedly truth in that (in as much as new technologies have always rendered some jobs obsolete), the societal impact of these new technologies is frequently misunderstood... Read
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4th Industrial Revolution
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ISSUED BY TOPCO MEDIA
Join South Africa's elite companies within the technology space. Enter the second annual Africa Tech Week awards and go up against the best pushing technological innovation in South Africa... Read
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ADRIAN ROODT
The greater the pool of data, the more potential it has for valuable business insights, particularly in industries like travel where the spotlight is increasingly shining on personalisation... Read
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South Africa can create 500,000 new jobs over 10 years through globally traded services... Read
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Cyber Security
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DAAN LOTTER
It's International Data Privacy Day on 28 January... Read
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RALPH BERNDT
As we welcome in the new year, companies today have unprecedented access to innovative technologies... Read
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Data & Analytics
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ERAN BROWN
Over the next decade, we are going to see another wave of huge volumes of data created, driven by emerging technologies... Read
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According to research from Turner & Townsend, major global data centre markets are seeing soaring construction costs as development in new and emerging hubs continues to heat up... Read
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Artificial intelligence (AI) provides banks with the means to make better use of the massive amount of data at their disposal... Read
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ICT
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PRABASHNI NAIDOO
Cybersecurity professionals see some threat actors or outside-parties as the enemy. However, challenging this mindset is important; you can better protect your organisation against outside-parties if you understand how they think and operate... Read
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Internet
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ISSUED BY XNEELO
Xneelo was named a finalist in three customer service categories in the 14th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, and will ultimately be a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Stevie Award winner... Read
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Mobile & Apps
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ISSUED BY SKYNAMO
South African sales tech provider secures Series A funding from leading software investor to accelerate adoption of its field sales app and management platform globally... Read
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Did you know that research suggests that over 1,000 Android apps collect location data and other information from phone users, even if no permission was given? Read
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Services
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ISSUED BY VIU
Viu SA has collaborated with 1voucher, a fintech company of Pepkor Holdings Limited, to offer Viu Premium customers new payment options through 1voucher top-up vouchers... Read
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Technology
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Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Intelligent Automation (IA) is leading the conversation in boardrooms around the country and across industries... Read
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It may seem like something out of a sci-fi movie, but over 4,000 people living in Sweden are currently considered as cyborgs... Read
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JOSEPHINE WAWIRA
In a continent where over 60% of the adult population is unbanked and the financial sector is considerably underdeveloped, fintech has been a welcomed revolution that is seen to be boosting Africa's financial infrastructure... Read
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IAN SCOONES
There has been much about a major Africa investment summit being hosted by the UK. Attended by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and an array of royals, a great deal of hopeful win-win-win rhetoric abounded linked to forging new partnerships for a post-Brexit future... Read
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There is a $197bn opportunity for private-sector investors in five high-growth markets in Africa to help achieve the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals... Read
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REHANA CASSIM
A legal battle between Old Mutual, the South African-based pan-African investment, savings and insurance group, and its chief executive officer Peter Moyo has dominated news headlines in the country for the past eight months... Read
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XOLILE SIZANI
Competition has become increasingly fierce. In 2019, we saw the expansion of price wars and the battle to remain relevant. It has become clearer that the companies that will survive are those which over the years have invested in... Read
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CHRISTOPHER MICHAELSON
We live in a world threatened by numerous existential risks that no country or organisation can resolve alone, such as climate change, extreme weather and the coronavirus... Read
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TANJA LATEGAN
E-commerce offers its practitioners a lot of advantages over traditional brick-and-mortar stores... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
According to UNESCO statistics, women make up only 23% of STEM talent globally, and this inequality is often felt in South Africa's science, technology and engineering industries... Read
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DR JOHN DEMARTINI
Dr John Demartini unpacks some important lessons that new entrepreneurs would be wise to take into the new year... Read
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Entrepreneurs who are starting new businesses are urged to carefully consider the legal status and type of business being registered... Read
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