Anusha Naidu, new CEO of SAVCA. The SA Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SAVCA) has appointed Anusha Naidu as its new chief executive officer, effective 1 March. Naidu joins SAVCA from her role as corporate finance and ESG executive at Select Africa, African Alliance, where she served on the group executive committee and led…
One of the MeerKAT antennas in the Karoo South African astronomers have detected the most distant and powerful natural radio laser ever observed. The signal comes from a galaxy more than eight billion light years away and was detected using the MeerKAT radio telescope in the Northern Cape. The discovery, led by the University of…
BLU’s carrying value of Cell C has dropped. (Photograph by Nicola Mawson) JSE-listed Blu Label Unlimited is set to take a R5.2 billion hit on its stake in Cell C because the value of its investment at listing was lower than the value it was carrying on its books, resulting in an accounting loss. In…
Blu Label Unlimited Group will post a massive basic earnings loss for the six months to end-November 2025, driven almost entirely by a R5.2-billion accounting hit linked to its disposal of control in Cell C – but the company is keen to draw attention to what it says is a far more meaningful picture of…
Google’s A-series has long defined the value proposition in the midrange smartphone market, and the new Pixel 10a appears set to continue that legacy. Starting at $499, the device balances premium display technology and sustainable build materials with a refined, minimalist aesthetic. Read: Nvidia secures multiyear megadeal to power Meta’s AI infrastructure The Pixel 10a…
SA’s labour market struggles to fill jobs requiring deep technical expertise. (Image created via ChatGPT). South Africa’s ICT hiring market is showing signs of recovery, with recruitment activity for IT professionals ticking upward in the final quarter of 2025. According to the Q4 2025 Employment Insights Report by online recruitment marketplace CareerJunction, year-on-year hiring activity…
Customer experience has entered an exciting new phase. Technology is now delivering real, practical benefits for both organisations and customers – not through hype, but through better design, smarter integration and clearer intent. The biggest winners are customers, who benefit from faster resolution, clearer communication and more consistent service – all aligned with rising expectations….
Google has officially marked its calendar for May 19 and 20, confirming that Google I/O 2026 will return to the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. As the company’s premier developer event, it serves as the launchpad for the next year of software innovation. While the conference is technically for developers, the opening keynote, which will…
Africa accounts for less than 1% of global data centre capacity. (Image source: 123RF) Despite its meteoric rise in data centre development and it accounting for 20% of the global population, Africa still only has 0.6% of global data centre capacity. This is based on the 2026 Economic Report: Data Centres in Africa, published by…
Obsidian Systems’ Bennie Kahler-Venter Vibe coding’s transformative impact on developer productivity is having adverse consequences for the open-source ecosystem, potentially exposing enterprises reliant on open-source software to risk. A paper from the Central European University (CEU) in January found that vibe coding – driven by AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor and Lovable…
