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Social media to contribute 13bn transactions to mobile money market

Mobile payments are a growing force around the globe — from the sophisticated tap ‘n go mechanics of Apple Pay to the continued dominance…

Connecting the Karoo: how the internet is changing South Africa’s semi-desert heartland

Back in the Victorian era of the late 1800s, farm life in the Karoo was hard and isolated. There were great distances between farmsteads,…

Mobile will inevitably allow South Africans to ditch their wallets

After years of hype the mobile commerce bandwagon may have just rolled into town. And if projections are anything to go by, the days…

Old malware, new tricks

Taking the path of least resistance is natural – it’s why rivers flow around mountains, and electricity finds the easiest route to earth. It…

Women In Engineering Fellowship Week: empowering the next generation of women innovators

Sixty of the top female engineering students were selected from universities around South Africa to attend the Women In Engineering (WomEng) Fellowship Week from…

Dion Chang to headline 2015 SA Innovation Summit

Corporate trend analyst and design consultant Dion Chang will headline the 2015 SA Innovation Summit, set to take place between 26 and 29 August…

Data analytics combined with old-school business principles can retain clicks

Online customers vote with their clicks in terms of what they’re after, how they navigate and why they abandon sites. Data analytics not only…

Social sentiment can provide serious insight for big data: here’s how

As social media explodes, valuable trends are increasingly available to those able to discover them. Yet sorting out signal from noise is only getting…

The NSA could easily be re-tooled as a business platform: here’s how

The US’ National Security Agency could be rejigged as a self-funded entity fulfilling its missions while saving taxpayers billions of dollars and also providing…

Hack exposes 2m Ubuntu user email addresses, password details

The email addresses, password details and user names of every single user on the Ubuntu forums — an estimated 1.85-million people — have been…

My mom has no idea what I do: 5 future jobs your kids will be explaining to you

I don’t have a particularly complicated job. I’m a copywriter and sometimes I create content that ends up on the internet. You would imagine…

Facebook’s secret number and stalking shoppers: top stories you should read

Would you still be as keen to post your life updates on Facebook if you realised that while most of your ‘friends’ had seen…

Security agencies should pay for data like everyone else: here’s why

Declan McCullagh, the Washington correspondent for CNET, reports that the NSA and other agencies can force tech firms to comply with demands for real-time…

Elon Musk’s Hyperloop transport system not a vacuum tunnel, here’s all we know

A simple tweet is all it took. Elon Musk, tech billionaire and founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, has sent the tech world into…

Your grammar is irrelevant — how technology is influencing language

Love it or hate it, our interaction with our digital devices greatly influences the way we communicate. In fact, it has the potential to…

Big data: not just a buzzword but a fact of life

Big data. These two words have surfaced on almost every technology outlet recently and many people have been as uninspired by them as they…

Dropbox’s dreams and hiding from the NSA: top stories you should read

Take some cloud storage, throw in a bit of paranoia and a self driving car and what do you get? Some of the top…

Is a gig of bandwidth really enough for anyone anymore?

Last week my mother told me that a gig a month is more than enough for her. Well of course it is mum, but…

Death by email: how to take back your inbox [part two]

I guarantee 100% that, if you follow the advice in this post, your email misery will be gone for ever. This is the second…

PayPal Galactic: is the move into space payments smart or just plain crazy?

To quote Captain Kirk in the classic Star Trek TV series, “Space, the final frontier”. This has been the premise of many a sci-fi…

Orange reveals 5-step plan for smart cities of the future

Orange, the leading French telecom operator, has just brought forward its vision of the future of smart cities and how the company plans on…

Kipochi brings Bitcoin to Africa through M-Pesa

Kipochi just launched its Bitcoin transfer service in Kenya using M-Pesa as its running platform. This service would allow people across Kenya to send…

Is Silicon Valley ageist? The young average age of its workers suggests so

Quentin Hardy on the New York Times Bits column, reports that a survey of tech companies by Payscale, shows a very young median age…

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AI in Recruitment: How Blue Pearl is Transforming Hiring for Modern Businesses

enza Secures $6.75M Seed Funding to Revolutionize African Payments

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