Microsoft SA secures digital talent for govt

Microsoft SA secures digital talent for govt

Microsoft drives employment-led digital upskilling for SA’s public sector departments. Sixty-four digitally-trained graduates have been placed into long-term employment roles across 11 government departments. This, as part of Microsoft South Africa’s equity equivalent investment programme (EEIP), says the software giant. EEIPs were created for multinationals whose global practices or policies prevent them from complying with…

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your road map to kill cloud waste

your road map to kill cloud waste

Driven by an early industry rush to prioritise agility over efficiency, massive cloud infrastructure scale has left behind a costly legacy of financial fragility. Addressing this widespread corporate vulnerability, international software development and cloud specialist BBD has announced the publication of its latest comprehensive white paper, Architecting Cloud Value: A FinOps Approach to Driving Bottom-Line…

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Android 17 updates includes foldable gaming mode and bubble multitasking

Android 17 updates includes foldable gaming mode and bubble multitasking

Google has officially began rolling out Android 17, with its proprietary Pixel ecosystem securing first-in-line access before the mobile OS migrates to the broader Android landscape later this year. Coinciding with the software debut, Google announced that Gemini Intelligence, the company’s highly anticipated, context-aware AI architecture built to execute complex, multi-step workflows, will land on…

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Money rules ‘built for different era’ hold SA back

Money rules ‘built for different era’ hold SA back

Regulations must enable businesses to use stablecoins for cross-border payments. (Graphic made via GenAI) Proposed foreign exchange regulations risk locking South African businesses out of a fast-growing global payments system built on stablecoins. There is also an outdated understanding of how digital money actually moves, say two of the country’s leading crypto executives. In April,…

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