283 Wikipedia on Thursday unveiled partnerships with several big tech companies including Microsoft, Meta and Amazon, marking a major step up in the non-profit’s ability to monetise tech firms’ reliance on its…
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Shoppers forcing merchants to adopt new digital payment methods
311 Mpho Sadiki, MD for Payfast Whereas merchants and industry usually push digital innovation, consumers are driving merchants to innovate in online payments. The proliferation of digital tools is upending the online…
AI, automation and the agentic operating model
325 Steve Burke, is the executive for agentic automation at iqbusiness For more than a decade, automation inside banks has been used discreetly and on a distributed basis, principally for task automation….
Big solar and energy storage projects going live across South Africa
322 Several major renewable energy projects currently under construction will go live this year, according to industry organisation Sapvia. Once operational, these projects will collectively add hundreds of megawatts of new generation…
Why enterprises are turning to Cohesity for cyber resilience
252 Enterprise organisations face increasing data volumes, advanced cyberthreats, and higher demands for availability and recovery. Leaders are questioning whether current data resilience strategies can ensure security, governance and scalability without adding…
Visa moves to plug stablecoins into the global payments system
292 Visa is working to integrate stablecoins into existing payment systems, seeing an opportunity to maintain its market leadership as these tokens gain traction, Visa’s head of crypto, Cuy Sheffield, said in…
Learn before you leap with Binance: why crypto education matters
280 Binance South Africa GM Hannes Wessels The crypto world moves much more quickly than most people realise. At this speed, there’s plenty of opportunity, but plenty of danger, too. For Binance,…
Oracle sued as bondholders allege AI debt plans were hidden
284 Oracle chairman Larry Ellison. Robert Galbraith/Reuters Oracle was sued on Wednesday by bondholders who say they suffered losses because the company chaired by billionaire Larry Ellison concealed its need to sell…
South Africa’s maths pipeline is collapsing
277 The decline in the number of South African learners taking and passing pure mathematics – as opposed to the more rudimentary maths literacy – at high school level is going to…
BNPL market hots up as Shoprite enters space
292 Shoprite Group has signed a partnership with Weaver Fintech (formerly Homechoice International) subsidiary PayJustNow to bring buy now, pay later (BNPL) payment options to customers for a wide range of items,…