Software

Signpost: Zoho growth
opens door to SA jobs

The fast-growing business software company plans to connect digital skills training with smaller employers, writes ARTHUR...

Streaming pushes TV to turn down the volume

A long-standing TV annoyance is spilling into the streaming era as broadcast standards catch up with...

Got digital evidence?
Don’t mess it up

Perpetrators today tend to leave electronic breadcrumb trails behind them, writes DAVID LOXTON, CEO and senior...

‘TikTok brain’ breaks corporate cybersecurity

Shorter attention spans, faster decision-making and less patience are a boon for hackers, writes ANNA COLLARD,...

Google Play launches indie games fund

Applications are now open for a share of a fund intended to help African game developers...

Absa and Salesforce expand AI focus

Deployment is expected to improve operational efficiency, reduce product time-to-market, and improve customer engagement with Absa...

Signpost: Amazon’s slow burn
sets digital SA alight

The launch of Amazon Prime brings a secret sauce to online retail in South Africa, local...

Sophos comes to SA

The local office will support local invoicing, partner enablement, compliance requirements and expanded regional investment.

Massive hidden cost of downtime revealed

It's being called the $600-billion wake-up call, as a new Splunk study shows the immediate financial...

Amazon Prime comes
to SA, games in tow

Customers get unlimited free same-day and next-day delivery, international movies and series on Prime Video; gaming...

Meta ‘Buy or bury’ in the spotlight in SA

The Govchat case before South Africa’s Competition Commission highlights a pattern of predatory behaviour, writes Weber...

The search engine you
grew up with is gone

AI has eaten a chunk of your search traffic, and our bot reporter AGGIE Z GATEMAND...

Signpost: Next big thing
keeps the old ones going 

South African companies are frustrated with software vendors, Spinnaker founder Matt Stava tells ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK.

Beware these SARS scams this tax season

Four scam types are consistently in circulation during the filing window, writes THALIA PILLAY, CEO of...

Instagram Instants
sparks upload panic

A new one-tap way to share disappearing photos resulted in confusion and accidental uploads, writes JASON...

Signpost: Does
software have a future?

At Sapphire 2026 this month, SAP, the world's largest ERP company, lined up Anthropic, Nvidia and...

Spotify fights back
against ‘spammy’ AI

As AI blurs the line between human and machine, Spotify used a report launch to address...