Shoprite’s Neil Schreuder Sixty60 grew sales 34.5% to R25.5-billion in the year to 28 June, according to a voluntary operational update Shoprite Holdings published on Wednesday morning – and on TechCentral’s calculations the delivery platform accounted for more than a third of everything the group grew. Shoprite added R18.1-billion in merchandise sales from continuing operations…
Alongside upcoming Siri AI capabilities, Apple appears to be developing a photo authentication feature to verify real-world photos. Code uncovered in the latest iOS 27 beta by 9to5Mac reveals references to Apple Reference Image, a system designed to confirm whether an image was genuinely captured using an iPhone camera. Read: AI models design viable synthetic…
Emmanuel Tzingakis, technical manager for Africa and venture markets at TrendAI. (Photo: Supplied) Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the economics of cyber crime, lowering the technical barrier to sophisticated attacks while creating new security and governance challenges for companies. This was a central message from speakers at TrendAI’s Spark 2026 event in Sun City last…
Herotel CEO Van Zyl Botha Herotel intends to sell Amazon’s low-Earth orbit satellite broadband at prices that closely track its existing fibre packages, and will carry the currency risk on terminals landed in South Africa, CEO Van Zyl Botha has told the TechCentral Show podcast. It is the clearest signal yet on what Evry will…
The future of innovation will not be built by technology alone. It will be shaped by the people asking better questions, challenging conventional thinking and creating solutions that improve lives. As artificial intelligence and exponential technologies continue to transform every sector of society, women are playing an increasingly influential role in driving that change. Reflecting…
YouTube is significantly raising the barrier to entry for its YouTube Partner Programme (YPP), effective February 1. While the baseline requirement of 1,000 subscribers remains unchanged, the platform is doubling the engagement thresholds needed for creators to begin monetizing their content. Read: AI models design viable synthetic viruses for the first time Under the updated…
UCT and Western Cape government officials have signed an MOU to strengthen collaboration in research, innovation, skills development and public sector capacity building. The University of Cape Town (UCT) and the Western Cape government (WCG) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to strengthen collaboration in research, innovation, skills development and public sector capacity building….
MTN Group will book a material impairment against its 49% stake in Irancell in its results for the six months to June, the company said in a trading statement ahead of interim numbers due on 24 August. The writedown pushes statutory earnings sharply lower even as the group’s underlying operating performance improved. Impairment losses of…
This strategic move strengthens HostAfrica’s service offering and marks the company’s entry into the Tanzanian market. Since its founding in 2016, HostAfrica has established a strong presence in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana. Tanzania becomes the fifth country in HostAfrica’s regional network, representing a key milestone in its mission to support digital entrepreneurship across…
SK Hynix has announced a 54 trillion Korean won ($38.1 billion) investment to construct two new semiconductor manufacturing facilities in South Korea. As the world’s second-largest memory manufacturer behind Samsung, the company is expanding capacity to address severe supply constraints driven by the global AI data centre boom. Production in the first facility’s cleanroom is…
