Author: Staff Writer
Prosus, one of the largest technology investors in the world, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Stack Overflow for $1.8 billion (R24 billion). Prosus plans to invest and grow Stack Overflow’s leading global developer community and SaaS collaboration platform as part of its future of workplace learning focus. Stack Overflow, one of the 50 most popular websites in the world, has built a global company and highly engaged developer and technologist community over the last 13+ years, now serving more than 100 million people across the world every month. Founded in 2008 as an open community-based question and…
1Life, together with LifeQ, using a Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 device, have launched a COVID-19 screening app. It uses unique models derived from users’ biometric data to give them an indication of changes in their health, enabling consumers to take proactive precautions in the event of potential COVID-19 onset, which is essential as the country faces a potential 3rd wave of infections. There is growing evidence for the use of biometrics in the early detection of many physical conditions, and this COVID-19 solution is the first of many solutions that LifeQ plans to offer to consumers, athletes, and those…
Digital solutions provider Liquid Intelligent Technologies achieves the 100,000 km fibre network milestone, positioning the organisation as the largest independent fibre network provider in emerging markets globally. Liquid has been manoeuvring steadily through Africa, investing in increasing its reach, which it has successfully done, moving the dial from 89,989 km at the beginning of 2021 to reach this new milestone now. With its additional fibre network connecting 14 countries, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa, customers can now explore opportunities in Africa and across the US, Asian and European markets. The organisation’s fibre infrastructure impacts more than 100 million people across 643…
Today, Vodacom Eastern Cape Region in partnership with the Eastern Cape Department of Education and Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform (DRDAR) unveiled a ground-breaking and technology-driven Agriculture and Food Security programme in over 131 underprivileged schools across the province. The programme aims to underscore that youth can play a significant role in food security, job creation and poverty alleviation through their active participation in agriculture. Known as the Agriculture School Programme, flowing from the Vodacom Sustainability Living (VSL) project, it is designed to inspire school-going children to enter the lucrative agricultural sector when they complete their schooling and…
Telkom is adding to its offering of tablets and is now bringing the new Huawei MatePad T10s to customers. The Huawei MatePad – the perfect tablet for adults and children alike; for work and for play – will be available from 1 June 2021. New and existing Telkom Mobile and Telkom Business subscribers qualify for the prepaid and post-paid deals revealed today. The NEW Huawei MatePad T10s comes with a large display for an immersive viewing experience, it has an eBook mode for all the bookworms out there and it is not very heavy for its size. The device is…
One’s choice of life partner is one’s personal prerogative. However, in countries such as South Africa, the reality is that the choice you make will be one that may not be universally accepted. As a result of this, many women and men are faced with the grim reality that the choices they make as to who they love can have gruesome consequences, and in some cases can even result in death. The harrowing rape crimes meted out to members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) community makes for dreadfully gruesome reading. These stories cannot be overlooked…
Standard Bank has officially launched its OneHub platform – an online marketplace that gives corporates access to a range of digital solutions. “OneHub is a single point of entry for Standard Bank’s corporate clients and partner organisations to connect and interact,” says Jonathan Lamb, Head of Platform Businesses at Standard Bank. “The platform allows clients to discover and procure digital tools and services developed by the bank and its trusted network of partners.” The platform is essentially a digital solutions marketplace that offers both web applications and application programming interfaces (APIs), which corporate clients can leverage to enhance efficiencies and…
+OneX, a new-age solutions and systems integrator that forms part of the Reunert group, has acquired digital media and data consultancy, DataCore Media, to add an online marketing capability to its suite of business transformation solutions and services. By integrating DataCore Media’s digital media strategy, buying and planning capabilities with its own cloud, data, security, and unified communications competences, +OneX will be able to help enterprises to use company-owned insights in back-office systems, together with digital campaign data, to drive richer customer experiences. +OneX and DataCore Media’s combined skills and capabilities will help companies to move towards measuring the lifetime…
Standard Bank decided to migrate its on-premise Atlassian toolset onto the AWS infrastructure and partnered with Synthesis to ensure best practices were adhered to and a seamless transition was possible. Challenge A number of significant outages were experienced on this toolset due to the on-premise infrastructure having aged. Users were faced with an increase in outages impacting delivery. This and the Group’s cloud aspiration were the catalysts to migrate the Atlassian toolset to AWS. Solution The Bank approached AWS for assistance and were encouraged to partner with Synthesis due to the company’s experience in migrating Atlassian workloads to AWS for other corporates.…
When the demand for fibre surged at the start of lockdowns last year, Seacom launched a separate and dedicated ISP that focuses on fibre connectivity to the home: WonderNet. One year after its launch in May 2020, the ISP has extended its fibre offering to the business sector, intending to deliver fast, reliable, and affordable Internet to small and medium-sized businesses. There are a few factors that separate WonderNet from other players in the market. Seacom, which launched Africa’s first broadband submarine cable system along the continent’s eastern and southern coasts in 2009, wanted to create a separate business unit…