South African businesses fail in digital leadership

Just 8% of South African businesses are Digital Leaders, according to the Dell Technologies Digital Transformation...

Fintech and Bitcoin get special track at AfricaCom

Debuting this year at AfricaCom are a range of talks, presentations, case studies and prospects around...

Coding drives inclusive education in Africa

Is coding a universal language that can bridge not only the gender and income gaps but...

Mobile money to cross borders

Orange and MTN launch pan-African mobile money interoperability to scale up mobile financial services across Africa.

IBM puts $70m into digital Africa

IBM today announced the $70 million dollar (approximately ZAR 945 million) investment in building digital, cloud,...

Siyavula gets $1.5m to advance maths learning

Google has recently granted $1.5 million to the non-profit arm of Siyavula Education to provide free...

How to build Silicon Valley in South Africa

Silicon Valley is well known for treating its employees well by creating an environment perfect for...

User experience to the fore in African media

Shifting consumer preferences, advances in technology and ongoing disruption to business models are the new strategic...

VR gets real across Africa

Virtual Reality became mainstream in several African countries including Nigeria last year. RUSSELL SOUTHWOOD spoke to...

Great Singles Day deals target South Africans

In just a few hours, GearBest will be unlocking its Single’s Day promotions, bringing insane discounts...

Mastercard names 9 Africa projects for $9-million fund

The Mastercard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity (FRP) has announced that nine companies from seven countries...

Funding for African tech rose in 2016

According to the Disrupt Africa Tech Startups Funding Report, 146 startups from across Africa raised US$129,113,200...

Amazon data centres in South Africa 2020

The long-awaited arrival of Amazon data centres in South Africa has finally been set, with three...

Broadband can drive economies across Africa

Africa’s legacy broadband infrastructure offers the continent the opportunity to leapfrog technology. FARHAD KHAN of Yahsat believes...

Discover Digital takes on African VoD market

Discover Digital, is building in-market caching, storage and video on demand (VOD) server technology in its...

South Africa’s hi-tech future from SARB

The South African Reserve Bank has pioneered Project Khoka – an adoption of blockchain systems throughout...

Festival taps into source code of African identity

The Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival enters its final week from 24 to 29 September with...

Transsion leads in Africa

A total of 22.4 million smartphones were shipped in Africa during the second quarter of this...