by Dianne Bayley | Jun 20, 2023 | Featured Articles
The metaverse as a concept has gained traction in the real world with individuals and organisations engaging within its digital boundaries. This makes it important to ask the tough questions about privacy, security and legal expectations.Despite its current hype...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 20, 2023 | Security and Legal
For years, we have been hearing about the increasing need for cyber security, but the number of attacks seems to be growing exponentially alongside increased investment into security solutions, writes Richard Firth, CEO, MIP Holdings. In the first half of last year...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 19, 2023 | Workplace 2020
On 16 June, South Africa observed Youth Day and honours the youths who rose up against Apartheid in Soweto on 16 June 1976; while remembering the more than 500 young people, including school students, who lost their lives.It is against this backdrop of youth...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 19, 2023 | Sustainability
On 23 June 2023, ProfitShare Partners will be the only South African Fintech participant of just 12 tech ventures from the African continent invited to showcase investment opportunities to investors, corporates and industry experts at the London Stock...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 19, 2023 | Innovation
Technology is moving so quickly that many business owners might feel overwhelmed with all the sudden hype around artificial intelligence, ChatGPT and other trends,writes Filum Ho, CEO of Apollo Studios. We’re still coming to terms with what this technology means and...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 19, 2023 | Innovation
Cash continues to play a central role in South Africa’s retail ecosystem, offering consumers a trusted, cost-effective, and easy to transact payment option with retailers. With figures from BankservAfrica showing that there’s more than R182 billion in cash in...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 19, 2023 | Innovation
Conversations about customer experience tend to lean toward ubiquitous consumer-facing brands like Amazon and Netflix, writes Poornima Ramaswamy, Chief Transformation Officer, Qlik. Both have built their reputations and success on knowing their customers intimately...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 19, 2023 | Innovation
Young South Africans are spending more time online than ever before. While the web offers great opportunities for education, creativity and social interaction, there is also the risk of increased exposure to harmful content, cyberbullying, age-inappropriate...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 18, 2023 | Innovation
Enterprises are fast embracing more data-centric business models, and as a result, so is the need for big data and analytics workloads that use artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL), writes Daniel Thenga, NetApp and SolarWinds...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 18, 2023 | Security and Legal
In the past year, more than half of South Africa’s companies have been impacted by ransomware attacks.Furthermore, according to a recently released report by cyber security firm Kaspersky, spyware attacks in South Africa grew by 18% between the last quarter of 2022...
