Richard Simpson, Managing Director of the Celerity Group, which incorporates Kero and BulkSMS. For hospitality businesses, a reservation is more than just a booking – it represents a prepared room, a reserved table, an allocated guide or a planned experience. When guests fail to arrive, the opportunity to monetise that space is lost. The real…
The 2026 Wired4Women Tech Business Leader Award winner will be revealed on 16 April. Cisco South Africa is endorsing the prestigious Wired4Women Awards programme by sponsoring the Tech Business Leader category, which honours a C-level executive who drives business growth strategy and execution within a tech service provider. Proudly presented by ITWeb Brainstorm in partnership…
The market is shifting away from isolated point solutions towards converged technology ecosystems. For most of the past decade, enterprise IT strategy followed a simple formula: add another tool. A new platform would solve a vulnerability, another would improve collaboration and a chatbot would enhance engagement. Each new challenge introduced another layer of technology. Individually,…
Bolt’s driver identity verification checks are now conducted multiple times a week. Bolt has intensified its crackdown on driver profile sharing in South Africa, introducing stricter enforcement measures by increasing driver identity verification checks on the driver app. In 2023, the e-hailing firm introduced the Bolt Driver Selfie Verification feature on its mobile app to…
As organisations accelerate their digital transformation journeys, cloud adoption has become central to agility, innovation and scale. But as workloads move beyond traditional data centres into hybrid and multi-cloud environments, the attack surface expands and cybersecurity complexity increases. Cloud workloads are now among the most targeted assets in the digital ecosystem. Threat actors continue to…
In this episode of ITWeb TV, Craig Brunsden, MD of Axiz, discusses the reality of AI’s impact on the local channel, including chip shortages and price increases for hardware. He also provides an outlook on the direction of the channel, including future consolidation of key players. Any local demand for artificial intelligence (AI) is yet…
Banking group FirstRand has increased its shareholding in JSE-listed fintech Optasia to 26.1% after acquiring an additional 6% stake in a deal worth about R1.48-billion. The banking group purchased 74.1 million ordinary shares at R20 each on 25 March from an entity owned by Bassim Haidar, Optasia’s founder and non-executive director. The transaction follows FirstRand’s…
Looking ahead to 2026, Omdia forecasts that global cloud infrastructure services spending will grow by 27%. (Image source: 123RF) Global spending on cloud infrastructure services reached $110.9 billion in Q4 2025, reflecting year-on-year growth of 29%. This is according to market research company Omdia, which notes that growth accelerated from the previous quarter, marking the…
Datatec group CEO Jens Montanana JSE-listed technology group Datatec has delivered a total shareholder return of 361%¹ over five years, making it one of the best-performing stocks in the local technology sector – yet it remains one of the least discussed. The figure, disclosed in an updated investor presentation (PDF) published on Thursday, covers the…
Solar affordability is holding installations back. (Image created by GenAI) Eskom has extended its solar sweetener for residential systems under 100 kilovolt-amperes (kVA), but registration costs may still keep homeowners away, even as power prices rise. Less than 10% of affected households have registered their rooftop solar systems despite Eskom’s R10 000 assistance offer, even…
