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 | | More businesses are having their members' personal data held to ransom for the purposes of identity theft. TransUnion's current significant data compromise - in which hackers are demanding a $15m ransom - serves as a fiery red flag... read |
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 | AHMORE BURGER-SMIDT Yes, Icasa now wants Vodacom and MTN to collect your biometrics, as published in the authority's draft regulations gazetted on Wednesday, 23 March 2022...read |
|  | EVAN-LEE COURIE Lars Lehne, Incubeta CEO, shares some insights into the use of chatbots in e-commerce, automation in marketing and entering the metaverse...read |
|  | JULIET GILLIES In Quarter 1 2021 global spend on in-app purchases surged to $32bn. In Quarter 1 2022 in-app purchases' global spend is $33bn...read |
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| Cyber Security |
 | With the use of digital currency becoming more mainstream, so cryptocurrency-related phishing scams are on the increase... Read |
 | CHANIQUE RAUTENBACH News broke late last week that the credit bureau TransUnion South Africa is fighting a Brazilian hacker group that is demanding a $15m ransom over four terabytes of compromised data... Read |
 | ISSUED BY MAXIMIZER SOFTWARE The corporate security business of F-Secure has relaunched as a new brand that shares the company's new name WithSecure... Read |
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 | Justice and Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola has committed the South African government to fighting content piracy... Read |
| Internet |
 | Globally, the number of buildings deploying smart building technologies will reach 115 million in 2026, up from 45 million in 2022... Read |
| Mobile & Apps |
 | Cliquefin - in partnership with major financial institutions - is bringing financial services within easy reach of customers... Read |
 | KATJA HAMILTON Andres Vergara, an accomplished international creative director, brings senior expertise in creativity and marketing to his new role as head of marketing at Doconomy, wherein he will focus his talents on driving climate action... Read |
| Services |
 | DARSHAN MOODLEY AND ANIQA BAWA In a contentious shift towards a decentralised "Web3", NFTs have been all the craze of late... Read |
 | ISSUED BY DOMAINS.CO.ZA Do you own a .co.za with Domains.co.za? Then register the available .joburg, .durban, .capetown or .africa domain name equivalent for only R3.00*!... Read |
 | ZUKO MDWABA Increasingly, business competitiveness, employee performance and satisfaction, and customer experience rely on the combination of technological advancements and skills readiness... Read |
| Tech Startups |
 | ThriveAgric has raised $56.4m in debt funding from local commercial banks and institutional investors... Read |
| Technology |
 | When you hear people say that tourism plays a vital role in South Africa's economy... Read |
 | Matt Landon conceptualised the idea of The Hedgie Fund in support of autism awareness... Read |
 | ISSUED BY OS HOLDINGS The team behind one of the world's leading meeting on investing in Africa, Tropics Business Summit, is launching the inaugural Tropics Tech & Influence Summit which will take place from 25 to 26 March 2022 in virtual format... Read |
 | AYUB OSMAN While the promise of 5G will transform the world as we know it, a big question that the industry experts currently grapple with is 5G's rollout and its subsequent energy consumption... Read |
 | ADRI FÜHRI Adri Führi, group CFO at e4, discusses how tech companies can achieve gender equality and empower women... Read |
 | Town township technologists, tech students and entrepreneurs to the second online TownshipTech hackathon taking place from 1 to 3 April... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY Polo: Ad creates fantasy world complete with avatars, game... Read |
| Telecoms |
 | This week, Vodacom celebrated progress on its commitment to halve its environmental impact by 2025 through various conservation initiatives... Read |
 | Telkom said it has enough room on its balance sheet to pay R2.1bn ($143.73m) for bands of radio frequency spectrum it bought... Read |
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 | SINDY PETERS By 2025, approximately 75-250 million Africans will lack access to freshwater. This startling statistic was shared by Wanjira Mathai... Read |
 | PAULO MOREIRA Diébédo Francis Kéré has become the first African and the first black person to be awarded the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize... Read |
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 | Only by making local communities a part of the agenda of the SA Investment Conference and acknowledging them as an integral part of the investment value chain, will we accelerate our ability to address the inequality and poverty that continues to pervade South African society... Read |
 | KATJA HAMILTON The last of the restrictions imposed by the State of Disaster will be lifted, Ramaphosa said... Read |
 | PROF RAYMOND PARSONS Commenting on the SARB's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decision today to again raise the repo rate by another 25 basis points North-West University Business School Economist Prof Raymond Parsons says the MPC statement was distinctly 'hawkish'... Read |
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