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#EntrepreneurMonth: At the forefront of customer feedback and online reputation management
At the forefront of customer feedback and online reputation management

Cari Coetzee

How can establishments in the hospitality industry manage the masses of online reviews and reviewers out there? This is where Go Review, launched by Social Places, comes in... read
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ICT
New breed of IT innovators among IT Personality Award finalists
New breed of IT innovators among IT Personality Award finalists

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Entrepreneurs and innovators dominate this year's finalists' list for the annual SA IT Personality and Visionary CIO awards... read

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AfricaCom offers free passes for Cape Town event
AfricaCom offers free passes for Cape Town event
By registering for a free AfricaCom visitor ticket online, visitors can gain access to more than 450 exhibitors, masterclasses, plus an innovation hall packed with visionary insights on future tech trends... read
Unpacking the future for technology, media and telecoms in Africa
Unpacking the future for technology, media and telecoms in Africa
AfricaCom 2017 presents a global speaker line-up in this uncertain age of digital disruption and transformation... read
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Cyber Security
Ransomware in South Africa survey
Ransomware in South Africa survey

Issued by Maximizer Software

Camsoft Solutions is conducting a survey to help determine the extent of ransomware attacks, as well as how prepared organisations are in countering and recovering from such attacks... read
AfriSecure Cyber Security Summit ready for Johannesburg
AfriSecure Cyber Security Summit ready for Johannesburg
The AfriSecure Cyber Security Summit, which takes place on from 18-19 October 2017, aims to connect senior executives responsible for protecting their companies' critical infrastructures with solution providers... read
Data & Analytics
Crimson, YouKnow launch social analytics-based trends report
Crimson, YouKnow launch social analytics-based trends report

Jessica Tennant

YouKnow Digital in partnership with consumer insights platform Crimson Hexagon launched the South African Consumer Trends Report today, 12 October... read
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CGIAR wants to build a big data platform and innovate with startups to help smallholder farmers
CGIAR met with a wide range of partners to look at how they could use their data using AI and big data to drive farming improvements in continents like Africa... read
Development
Mine.D hackathon focuses on mining health and safety
Mine.D hackathon focuses on mining health and safety
It stands to reason that the next wave of growth within the mining sector will come from technology... read
Hardware
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An ode to Windows Phone: Five of the best WP handsets ever made

Hadlee Simons

One of the bigger news stories this week has been a tacit admission by Microsoft's Joe Belfiore that Windows Phone is essentially dead... read
Internet
New DStv fibre solution for communal installations
New DStv fibre solution for communal installations
DStv customers who have a fibre optic network installed, can now get signal to their DStv decoders using this network with one centralised satellite dish for their whole estate, complex, or apartment block... read
Netflix in South Africa: fastest ISPs revealed for September
Netflix in South Africa: fastest ISPs revealed for September

Hadlee Simons

Netflix launched in South Africa more than a year ago, officially supporting the region with TV shows and movies. But the streaming service has also recently added South Africa to its monthly ISP Speed Index... read
IoT
IoT Barometer Report reveals optimism over IoT's potential outcomes
IoT Barometer Report reveals optimism over IoT's potential outcomes
Vodafone's fifth annual IoT Barometer Report reveals South Africans' optimism over possible business outcomes from IoT... read
Reinhardt van Rooyen
What if IoT could help protect and track your assets?

Reinhardt van Rooyen

Asset tracking has long been vital to organisations and the internet of things (IoT) provides a welcome new way to enhance the efficiency of these systems... read
Mobile & Apps
Mobile payments give you wings
Mobile payments give you wings
Globally, mobile payments will reach $75bn in 2017, with the potential of reaching $503bn by 2020 as a result of advances in technology... read
Tech Startups
Africa Innovation Prize 2018 call to entry
Africa Innovation Prize 2018 call to entry
African Innovation Foundation calls for applications for the Innovation Prize for Africa 2018 Awards... read
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Nairobi's iHub launches “Open House Fridays”

Tom Jackson

Kenyan innovation space the iHub has announced “Open House Fridays”, which offers local techies and entrepreneurs free use of the hub's co-working space every Friday in October... read
AfricArena tech innovation conference kicks off next month
AfricArena tech innovation conference kicks off next month
AfricArena, described as the largest tech innovation conference for startups and investors hosted on African soil, will take place from 6-7 November 2017 at the Century City Conference Centre... read
Five SA startups finalists in Accenture Innovation Awards
Five SA startups finalists in Accenture Innovation Awards

Tom Jackson

Five South African startups have been named finalists in this year's edition of the Accenture Innovation Awards, which rewards forward-thinking businesses that are disrupting industries... read
Technology
The game-ganging potential of M2M technology for businesses
The game-ganging potential of M2M technology for businesses

Ronald Ravel

The case for introducing machine-to-machine (M2M) technology into the workplace is gaining in strength, with solutions providers continuing to innovate and push the boundaries of such technologies... read
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A new distribution landscape: Bringing blockchain to the travel industry
Lufthansa Group has partnered with Winding Tree which has dedicated itself to reorganising travel distribution. With a decentralised B2B marketplace system powering blockchain-based travel booking transactions... read
$78bn in transaction revenue to be processed by smart store tech by 2022
$78bn in transaction revenue to be processed by smart store tech by 2022
Invisible payments and other connected technologies are expected to boost retail revenues as omnichannel strategies move in-store... read
Telecoms
Enhancing cross-channel communication in financial services
Enhancing cross-channel communication in financial services

Wynand Smit

Financial institutions, like any other businesses, have customers whose preferences have shifted to digital channels... read
International
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Global firms bet on Indonesia as next startup frontier
Big-name investors including Expedia and Alibaba are pumping billions of dollars into Indonesian tech startups in a bid to capitalise on the country's burgeoning digital economy... read
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Greenpeace slams new nuclear plant plans
Greenpeace Africa has responded with outrage to Eskom's nuclear plant plans.... read
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