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#eComConfex: Become digitally intelligent, or go home
Become digitally intelligent, or go home
[Lauren Hartzenberg] If your business does not have digital intelligence at its core by 2020 you may as well go home. This is according to James McCormick... read
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Fashion and tech empowering people with diversabilities

Ilse van den Berg

If we're going to be designing for the future, shouldn't we maybe challenge ourselves to design beyond human augmentation? How do we design inclusively? Read

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The consequences of this week's Amazon outage

On Tuesday, 28 February at 11:53am PST Amazon's S3 web-based storage service went down across the US-EAST-1 region, a four-hour outage causing major issues for millions of AWS users across the US... Read

Yoco's CEO Katlego Maphai
Yoco raises funding for expansion

Tom Jackson

South African fintech startup Yoco, which allows small businesses to accept card payments, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding... Read

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Keynote speaker announced for Dell EMC Forum 2017
Nigel Moulton has been announced as the keynote speaker for the Dell EMC Forum, taking place on 9 March 2017... read
App and website development
Tech design empowering children with autism
Tech design empowering children with autism
Researchers at the University of Pretoria are developing guidelines to design better learning applications for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)... read
Singer Group, FOMO Travel partnership set to disrupt the travel industry
Singer Group, FOMO Travel partnership set to disrupt the travel industry
The Singer Group has partnered with fintech startup, FOMO Travel to offer customers a new way to book and pay for future travel... read
Cyber Security
What is encryption, how does it work and why is it important?
What is encryption, how does it work and why is it important?

Carey van Vlaanderen

More than any other security topic, encryption seems to perplex a lot of people. Many may have seen it within their WhatsApp and view encryption as being infinitely complicated.. read
South African companies falling prey to ransomware
South African companies falling prey to ransomware

Issued by Maximizer Software

It hasn't been a good start to the year for many South African businesses as their employees returned to work only to discover that they had been locked out of their computers and company databases had been encrypted... read
Data Management
Deriving true insight from data
Deriving true insight from data

Kirsten Doyle, Issued by Praesignis

Advanced visualisation is more about the message than the technology. Data without context is bits and bytes with enormous potential. So says Frans Vermaak, MD of Praesignis, who will be presenting at the ITWeb Business Intelligence Summit... read
Internet
Enterprises deliberate in approach to new technologies, IoT
Enterprises deliberate in approach to new technologies, IoT
Conducted by TechValidate on behalf of Red Hat, and polling more than 200 IT decision makers and professionals, a January 2017 survey around enterprise IoT shows... read
BitCo launches uncapped wireless DSL connectivity for small to medium enterprises
BitCo launches uncapped wireless DSL connectivity for small to medium enterprises

Issued by BitCo

National internet and telephony service provider BitCo's Wireless DSL (WDSL) is an entry-level alternative to their standard premium wireless connectivity solutions... read
Propelling Africa's growth through digital industrialisation
Propelling Africa's growth through digital industrialisation

Issued by Gordon Institute of Business Science

Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric, says the company has had to reconfigure itself as a digital organisation in preparation for the expected widespread growth of the industrial internet and its effect on traditional industrial assets... read
Services
Unified communications and collaboration boosts competitive advantage
Unified communications and collaboration boosts competitive advantage

Kyle Woolf

Business, especially the retail sector, must look to omni-channel integration for a competitive advantage, as unified communications steadily gains in popularity... read
Software
Microsoft appoints new president for MEA region
Microsoft appoints new president for MEA region
Samer Abu Ltaif has been appointed as Microsoft president, Middle East and Africa (MEA)... read
Technology
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Thomson Reuters app simplies forex auctions
The Thomson Reuters Eikon Auctions app has been used successfully for the first time for live foreign exchange auctions in Ghana and Uganda... read
Meltwater acquires Oxford University's Wrapidity
Meltwater acquires Oxford University's Wrapidity
Meltwater, a leader in media intelligence, has acquired Wrapidity, an artificial intelligence (AI) spin-out from Oxford University using technology to automate data extraction from content on the web. read
Business
Credit bill aims for debt forgiveness
Credit bill aims for debt forgiveness

Linda Ensor

The National Assembly its unanimous go-ahead to develop a bill amending the National Credit Act to provide debt relief to consumers... read
Jobs offered
Technical Web Coordinator - Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch University currently seeks to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced technical web coordinator (Ref. AKK/066/0217). Applications close 10 March 2017. Read more >>

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