190 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,…
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Cullinan Holdings CIO Ryan Porter
180 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…
This is the last day you can watch your favourite shows on Showmax Â
206 Showmax originals will be moved to DStv Stream. In a bid to keep Showmax alive in some form, MultiChoice has announced that Showmax Originals will move to DStv Stream once the…
Arctic Wolf unpacks the evolving threat landscape for SA businesses
199 Most security teams can tell you what they’ve deployed. Far fewer can answer the board’s next question: are we actually less exposed than we were three months ago? In many organisations,…
Adobe faces fresh probe over subscription cancellation fees
208 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…
Saltzman sons sell R640m in Dis-Chem shares
166 It follows the ‘gifting’ of a R6.8bn stake last year … Two sons of Dis-Chem founder Ivan Saltzman, Mark and Dan, have sold a total of R640 million in shares in…
Africa’s first Nvidia RTX Pro GPU servers have landed
167 For years, African developers, researchers, studios and AI teams have had no choice but to rent GPU infrastructure from overseas. This meant paying in dollars or euros, contending with high latency…
How a WhatsApp bundle exposed a fault line in SA mobile
216 Telkom has spent years operating in the shadow of Vodacom and MTN. That is changing. South Africa’s third-largest mobile network operator by subscribers has built a prepaid offering that is pulling…
The ‘minimum R20’ to swipe trap is bullying your wallet: Here’s how to fight back
185 ‘Even if someone can comfortably afford to pay an additional R5 when swiping their card, it should not be accepted when the charge is illegal.’ There is no greater betrayal than…
Showmax Originals find a new home on DStv Stream
174 MultiChoice has confirmed that Showmax Originals and select titles will migrate to DStv Stream, where they will sit in a dedicated Showmax section within the app — answering the question that…