Aalia Manie and Kiera Bracher. Unless you have been living under a rock, you would have heard the warnings from Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) that AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next five years, or from Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO) that AI will probably lead to the end of the…
HyperDev’s Anton Moulder Vibe coding tools have made it trivially easy to build an app. But almost nobody is turning those apps into actual businesses — and a South African start-up thinks it knows why. HyperDev is an AI-powered software development tool that aims to address gaps in the vibe coding market — such as…
Harold van Graan, chief revenue officer, Solid8 Technologies. Let’s kick off with an obvious question, namely: what is online fraud? Fraud is variously defined as a deception or misrepresentation; a perversion of truth to convince someone to part with something of value or surrender a legal right. Online fraud encompasses both financial fraud and identity…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Remo Casilli/Reuters In 2014, Amazon introduced its first smartphone, hoping to take on Apple and Samsung. Instead, the Fire Phone, overseen directly by founder Jeff Bezos, was scrapped in barely over a year, one of Amazon’s highest-profile flops. Now, Amazon is dialling up a new phone. The latest effort, known internally…
Richard Ford, group CTO, Integrity360. South African companies are sitting on a “figurative asbestos” of digital data that is costing them millions and exposing them to significant security risks. As the world marks International Digital Cleanup Day on 21 March, cyber security firms are urging businesses to tackle the growing threat of “data toxicity” –…
As a boom in online gambling across Africa gathers pace, governments are hiking taxes to contain addiction risks and fill depleted state coffers. In by far the biggest market, South Africa, the industry is pushing back. Once a niche activity, gambling has exploded across the continent as a result of easily available online betting accounts….
ITWeb contributor Phillip de Wet. Microsoft, AWS and Dell and their peers operate peacefully in South Africa by way of a bit of classic magic: making one concept mean entirely different things depending on where in the world you are based. In South Africa, “Equity Equivalent Investment Programme (EEIP)” is a long way of saying…
Adobe’s head office in San Jose, California The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) — the UK equivalent of South Africa’s Competition Commission — has launched a formal investigation into Adobe over concerns that early cancellation fees on its subscription plans may breach consumer protection law. The investigation will examine whether terms attached to Adobe’s “annual…
Estopini was recognised for its innovation, practical scalability and strong socio-economic impact. Pan-African technology group Liquid Intelligent Technologies has named township-focused logistics start-up Estopini as the winner of its latest Youth Tech Pitch-a-thon. It says the challenge underscores the growing impact of youth-led innovation in addressing real-world challenges across South Africa. The Pitch-a-thon, hosted virtually,…
Ryan Porter With more than 25 years in business management and over two decades leading complex IT environments, Cullinan Holdings CIO Ryan Porter has spent his career turning technology into a practical, results-driven business asset. “Having worked across both customer and service-provider landscapes, I’ve learned that success comes down to strong people, clear governance, and…
