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Forge Academy, South Africa’s first fully inclusive 4IR lab, will host an SMME Showcase for small and medium-sized tech businesses and tech start-ups. The event will be hosted at The Gantry in Fourways, Gauteng on Wednesday, 30 June 2021. Forge Academy, situated at The Gantry in Gauteng, is offering a unique opportunity for tech SMMEs and tech start-ups to present their businesses to a panel of judges at the showcase event. The top six businesses selected will win a place to exhibit their business and products at the Forge Academy Digital Street Festival, taking place on 18th of November 2021…
Telkom announced on Thursday that it has successfully signed-up 10 000 subscribers to its digital wallet operated on WhatsApp – Telkom Pay. The digital wallet was launched in December 2020 and Telkom says it has big plans to cement its place in the FinTech market. Telkom’s digital wallet made the first-of-its-kind debut in the market by allowing customers to easily make transactions, without the use of cash and the need for face-to-face interaction, all through WhatsApp. The company has since made advancements to its offering and one of the stand-out features include a Telkom Pay Virtual Card. Telkom Pay now…
Huawei today opened its largest Global Cyber Security and Privacy Protection Transparency Center in Dongguan, China. It used the event, which included representatives from GSMA, SUSE, the British Standards Institution, and regulators from the UAE and Indonesia to call for a unified approach to cybersecurity based on facts and verification, rather than suspicion and misconceptions. “While we are deepening digitalisation across the world, cybersecurity is becoming more important than ever before,” says Dr Ken Hu, Rotating Chairman, Huawei. “According to research from Cybersecurity Ventures, damages from cybercrime are set to reach US$6-trillion in 2021.” Pointing to the rise of remote…
Keeping a remote workforce connected in the forever-changed business landscape has been a unique challenge for SMEs and large enterprises alike. To ensure work-from-home teams have the data required to access business-critical applications, Vodacom Business has introduced Business Tickets, a first-to-market innovation offered exclusively to Vodacom Business clients. Business Tickets provide a cost-effective, collaborative way to stay connected and productive. Ring-fenced for exclusive access to select business-critical online applications, these data bundles support everything from email to cloud storage, navigation and social apps. “With Business Tickets, you only pay for the data your organisation needs, for the business-specific apps they…
Transport is one of the major challenges facing South Africa today. The country faces ageing rail infrastructure, which has been targeted by criminal elements. The legacy of apartheid spatial planning also means that many of the country’s poorest people are either underserved or completely underserved by any form of subsidised public transport. As a result, people in these areas are overly reliant on commuter buses and minibus taxis (used by approximately 80% of public transport commuters in the country). If the country is to change that situation, it needs to implement policies and strategies which make intelligent use of technology…
IDU, an independent software vendor providing budgeting, forecasting, performance management and reporting tools, has appointed 4Sight Dynamics Africa as a distributor of its products throughout Africa. Kevin Phillips, managing director at IDU says that the move is part of the company’s strategy to drive growth across the continent. “4Sight Dynamics Africa has developed a unique, specialised channel focused on business applications with hundreds of expert resellers across 51 African countries,” he says. “It, therefore, offers us an unparalleled opportunity to access resellers who are genuinely active understand our unique selling proposition and can take our product to market successfully.” IDU’s…
Telkom has launched Africa’s first Mastercard virtual card for use on WhatsApp, enabling Telkom Pay customers to make e-commerce payments. This move is expected to empower millions of South Africans – even those without a bank account – to access the digital economy and transact online. Launched in 2020, Telkom Pay is a digital payments wallet that enables its users to make and receive payments using WhatsApp on their mobile phone. With the addition of the Mastercard virtual (non-plastic) card to the wallet, users can now make payments to local and global online merchants that accept Mastercard, including Uber and…
Network operators are facing some fierce new challenges with the emergence of IoT and 5G, along with the migration of data, applications and other business elements to the cloud. While these trends are vital to push the envelope in their respective fields, they are challenging service providers to deliver increased bandwidth and application quality of service. Serving increasingly stringent requirements along with mounting scale increases the complexity of networks. Organizations everywhere are looking for solutions to simplify such complexity within their networks — which is where Segment Routing (SR) comes to the rescue. Herotel has implemented a cutting-edge segment routing (SR) network from NEC XON…
CaseWare Africa, part of the Adapt IT, has launched a holistic, cloud-based tax return solution designed especially for trusts. Michael Mncube, Tax Product Manager at CaseWare Africa, says that the new software enables tax practitioners to handle all tax administrative matters relating to trusts in one application, including the preparation, calculation, and submission of IRP6 and ITR12T tax returns directly to SARS. “Administering trusts is complex and the tax authorities are especially rigorous in their oversight of trusts, thus further raising the stakes for administrators. Trust Tax provides practitioners with a single application that makes it possible to keep track…
Nedbank Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB) has invested in a minority equity interest in LifeQ, a disruptive HealthTech innovator and leading provider of biometrics and health information derived from wearable devices. The data collected by LifeQ is used by many of the world’s leading health solutions providers to inform their science-based health data analytics with the ultimate aim of positively impacting the future of health for their members and customers. The investment formed part of a global fundraising campaign by LifeQ, which saw the business secure $47 million from a variety of prominent investors around the world. “Nedbank CIB’s investment…