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Foschini All Woman app offers online fashion shopping

The Foschini Group has launched a new app called Foschini All Woman to offer its fashion and beauty ranges in a single online space….

Online subscriptions surged during pandemic – FNB

FNB revealed South Africans are doubling down on online spending on home deliveries, as well as music and video streaming subscriptions. This is according…

Over 14 million South Africans included in Facebook data leak

Over 14 million South Africans had their Facebook data leaked in the recently revealed data incident that hit the social media giant. That was…

South Africans show a high preference for fully remote work – study

A recent study called ‘Decoding Global Ways of Working’ has found a strong preference among South Africans for fully remote work, compared to the…

Clubhouse denies app was hacked as scraped data of 1.3m accounts appears online

Social audio app Clubhouse denies it was hacked and personal data from 1.3 million of its users was stolen. The company was responding to…

South African company eMoyo launches tech into space with NASA

South African company eMoyo partnered with NASA to launch an innovative technology product space, for use on the International Space Station. The product was…

Everyshop, SA’s new e-commerce platform officially launched

South Africa has a new e-commerce player in the form of Everyshop. After a month of testing, the store officially launched on 1 April. A…

The biggest ecommerce trends to watch in the near future

A 2018 report from Statista estimates that global ecommerce sales are set to rise 246.15% by 2021, from 1.3-trillion in 2014 to 4.5-trillion in…

Airbnb in South Africa: the numbers

Airbnb has hosted two-million guests in South Africa since 2008, the company today announced. This, and slew of other numbers, were presented by the…

The ‘end’ of the shopkeeper (and other retail trends coming soon)

Self-service retail is swooping across the globe; from online shopping to self-checkout, there’s a growing trend in retail environments that focuses on driving efficient…

This is why it’s important to get personal with your data

With more than 230 000 new instances of malicious software produced daily, companies are under pressure to ensure the security of their data. Adding to…

Samsung Pay’s FAQ for South Africans

Samsung’s calling it a game changer. Banks are seeing it as a fresh avenue for payments. And users? Well, that remains to be seen….

Samsung Pay is now available in South Africa

Samsung Pay is now officially available and live in South Africa. The contactless payment service, which has been available in other territories since 2015,…

FNB lets South Africans pay for groceries with their watch

Fitbit Pay is now available in South Africa. The wireless payments service which works through Fitbit’s range of wearable devices is now compatible with…

‘Fifty Shades of Blockchain’ is the smut the internet really needs

You know what adult romantic thriller Fifty Shades of Grey lacked? Blockchain jargon. At least that’s what this particular Twitter account is trying to…

Security breaches: stop thinking about if and start thinking about when

There’s hardly a week that goes by without news that a major organisation has been hit by a significant online security breach, with thousands…

Firewalls are the iron barricades of business cybersecurity

As more organisations prioritise digitalisation, the protection of internal and on-site data tends to slip down the priority list. But this is a mistake,…

Mobile crypto mining malware is a growing smartphone threat

According to a report by Kaspersky, the number of internet users affected by cryptocurrency mining software has jumped by a considerable margin this year,…

Akon’s building a Senegalese ‘Smart City’ with his cryptocurrency ‘Akoin’

There’s a new cryptocurrency soon to be launched, but it won’t be taking its name from any memes or computer jargon. Instead, it’ll be…

Superbalist and Spree announce merger

Big news in South Africa’s online retail space: two of South Africa’s clothing and lifestyle juggernauts, Spree and Superbalist, are merging into a single…

Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies shed even more value this weekend

It must suck if you’ve bought Bitcoin any time this year. The cryptocurrency, along with a slew of its competitors and peers, crashed in…

Don’t be fooled: 2018 FIFA World Cup scams you should be weary of

We’re just a few weeks away from the global phenomenon of watching men kick an inflatable bladder around a patch of grass, and cyber…

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