Software

Will 2026 be the Year
of the Super App?

We're standing at the threshold of a revolution in emerging markets, especially in Africa, writes ANDRÉ...

Medical referral platform named SA’s best app

The FNB App of the Year Awards celebrated a showcase of solutions to real-world problems, writes...

SA’s ‘science Oscars’ add research prize

National Science and Technology Forum's acclaimed NSTF-South32 Awards will now include a Research Software category.

Canva goes hyper-local in SA

The creative platform has based its South African launch on local language, imagery and behaviour, writes...

Huawei Cloud named Sub-Saharan leader

A white paper unveiled this week at Africa Com 2025 by GlobalData recognised technological innovation and...

Vitality, Google, team up for AI health coach

A new global partnership brings AI-driven insights, based on 2,800 dimensions of lifestyle data, to personalised...

SAP teaches AI to predict
business outcomes

At SAP TechEd 2025 in Berlin, the software giant unveiled the world’s first enterprise relational foundation...

Will quantum finally get
its ‘ChatGPT moment’?

AI will hog the spotlight for a while, but the business case for quantum computing is...

Salesforce gets into
bed with OpenAI

New integrations bring OpenAI frontier models and Salesforce into unified experiences across both platforms.

FNB puts 33,000 through App Academy

The rigorous curriculum covers app development fundamentals such as programming languages and both front-end and back-end...

Google launches agentic
platform for business

Gemini Enterprise puts AI agents at the centre of organisations, allowing users to automate complex tasks,...

Oracle AI World: Old Mutual
bets big on cloud

Cloud World in 2024 became AI World in 2025 to underline a new focus, but SA...

Why SMS still survives

Despite apps and algorithms, SMS retains enduring relevance in an era of real-time messaging, writes RICHARD...

Counterfeit kick-off
for FIFA World Cup

Cybercriminals are preparing to exploit FIFA 2026 even before ticket purchases begin, a Check Point Research...

Qlik drives SA effort to close AI strategy gap

A wall of stickers at the Qlik AI Reality Tour showed organisations eager to adopt AI...

AI avatar unpacks online retail research

Peach Payments has built an AI avatar to help its merchants unpack the findings of the...

SAP aims for SA reset

The newly appointed Southern African head of SAP, Nazia Pillay, tells ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK how the company's...