The 2025 FNB app award winners. Vula Medical, winner of the “Best Health Solution” at the 2025 FNB App of the Year Awards, was crowned the overall winner at last night’s awards showcase. Vula Medical is a medical referral app developed by Dr William Mapham. It connects primary healthcare workers with specialists, to make it…
Dr William Mapham Health-tech stood out at this year’s FNB App of the Year Awards as Vula Medical, an application that connects general medical staff with specialists that are on call in an area, took top honours in Johannesburg on Thursday evening. In a post-event interview with TechCentral, Vula Medical founder and CEO Dr William…
New Delhi — India’s government revoked an order on Wednesday that had directed smartphone makers such as Apple and Samsung to install a state-developed and owned security app on all new devices. The move came after two days of criticism from opposition politicians and privacy organizations that the “Sanchar Saathi” app was an effort to snoop…
Users were struggling to access the FNB app and website on Friday as Black Friday coincided with pay day for many South Africans. A presumed surge in online activity from Black Friday shopping coinciding with usual pay day activity appears to have toppled FNB’s banking app, with FNB-related complaints on incident monitoring website Downdetector spiking…
FNB is investigating glitches on its mobile app. Big-four bank FNB is suffering glitches on its mobile application on Black Friday. According to Downdetector, a site that monitors website outages, South Africans started reporting issues with access to the FNB app from 9am. When trying to log in to the app, earlier this morning, FNB…
André Steyn, format acceleration VP at Massmart. Walmart is betting on its omni-channel retail strategy to attract South African customers, rolling out a Walmart Africa mobile app built on the same global technology stack that powers the US retail giant’s global operations. The US multinational retailer, which operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores…
Francois Viviers, Capitec group executive of marketing and communications. Capitec Bank has seen rapid growth in mobile banking adoption, with more than half of its 25 million clients now actively using the Capitec app every month. Speaking in an interview with ITWeb on the side-lines of the Capitec Innovation Exchange event yesterday, Francois Viviers, Capitec…
PAPSS, developed by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) in collaboration with the African Union and the AfCFTA Secretariat, enables instant, low-cost payments in local currencies between African countries. FirstBank, the premier bank in West Africa and a leading financial inclusion service provider, is thrilled to announce the successful integration of the Pan-African Payment and Settlement…
French media giant Canal+ has successfully taken control of MultiChoice, clearing the necessary regulatory hurdles to complete a complex and long-anticipated acquisition. The company’s initial offer of R125 per share was accepted by over 90% of MultiChoice’s non-Canal+ shareholders, increasing its stake to 94.36%. Canal+ will now invoke a “squeeze out” provision under Section 124(1)…
Apple is winding down support for its video editing app, Clips, confirming it has removed the app from the App Store and will no longer issue updates. Read: Starlink pledges R2.5 billion investment in South Africa, ready to launch In an update to its support page, Apple announced that as of October 10, Clips is…
