76 AI start-ups are attracting record sums of venture capital, but some of the world’s largest investors warned that early-stage valuations are starting to look frothy, senior investment executives said on Friday….
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eMedia acquires stake in global visual effects specialist
63 E.tv owner eMedia has acquired a 30% stake in Pristine World Holdings, a specialist provider of visual effects services to global film and television markets, for R119-million. The purchase will be…
Smartee 360 promises to end manual asset tracking in South African supply chains
77 Bluetooth Low Energy warehouse installation For decades, managing physical assets has been one of the most complex and error-prone parts of running a supply chain. Warehouses and distribution centres juggle thousands…
Seacom 2.0: Alpheus Mangale unpacks all the details about the giant new subsea system
68 Seacom last week announced that it plans to build one of the highest-capacity subsea broadband cable systems the world has ever seen. Dubbed Seacom 2.0, the cable system – which will…
Solidarity in deal to export South African skills online to US
67 Solidarity CEO Dirk Hermann Trade union Solidarity has signed a deal with US company Propay Prime US to export South African IT skills – online, from South Africa. Propay, which focuses…
South African business conditions improve
105 Business conditions in South Africa’s private sector improved for the fifth month running in September, buoyed by a rise in output and new orders, S&P Global reported on Friday. The Purchasing…
Oracle urges urgent upgrades as hackers exploit flaws
67 Oracle said customers of its E-Business Suite of products “have received extortion e-mails”, confirming a warning first issued on Wednesday by Google. In a blog post, the California-based tech company said…
South Africa and Europe must forge new EV value chain, says BMW boss
103 BMW South Africa CEO Peter van Binsbergen South Africa and Europe should collaborate on building an alternative “value chain” for electric vehicle components such as batteries to reduce dependence on China,…
Digicloud Africa now an official Google SecOps distributor for Africa
89 In a move set to expand both Digicloud Africa and Google Cloud’s footprint across Africa, Digicloud Africa has been appointed as a distributor of Google security operations (SecOps) products in Africa….
AWS recognises BBD with dual accolades
102 BBD has been recognised with two accolades from Amazon Web Services, demonstrating its exceptional cloud capabilities and commitment to customer success. The company has officially been named an AWS Premier Tier…