158 As South Africans prepare for the colder winter months, Hisense South Africa has partnered with Makro to make upgrading home laundry appliances simpler and more convenient through its new “One-Stop Winter…
Category: Tech
The world has minted its first dollar trillionaire
149 Elon Musk looks on as U.S President Donald Trump meets President Cyril Ramaphosa in the the White House in May 2025. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Few business leaders have been as deeply embedded…
The projects leading Eskom’s 32GW renewables charge
133 Eskom’s group executive for renewables, Rivoningo Mnisi, has put names and numbers to the projects that will come first under the new Eskom Green business, laying out a pipeline that runs…
Pick n Pay stores to double as nationwide e-waste drop-off network
130 E-waste recycler EWaste Africa has partnered with Pick n Pay and producer responsibility scheme ERA NPC to build a nationwide network of e-waste collection points in retail stores, in a bid…
Anthropic vs OpenAI and the bitter battle for the future of AI
118 At war … Dario Amodei and Sam Altman If not for the intense rivalry between Anthropic and OpenAI, the generative AI boom might not have arrived so quickly. In late 2022,…
MTN’s first AI target? Itself
128 Charles Molapisi MTN Group is targeting R30-billion in “value creation” from AI over the next three to five years, with roughly half expected to come from using AI to run the…
Lost in translation: why AI voice agents fail South Africans
127 South African businesses are rolling out AI voice agents at speed. Most of those agents were built in the US. They sound American, “think” in English and process calls through servers…
10 benefits to online learning through Richfield
118 As the demand for flexible tertiary education grows, choosing the right institution is critical. Richfield has perfected the distance learning model, ensuring that students receive the same quality of education as…
Trouble at Xbox
113 Microsoft’s Xbox division is planning major layoffs next month and significant cuts to marketing and other budgets, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. The job cuts would mark the first major restructuring…
Why a payments company tracks South Africa’s financial pulse
135 For South Africa’s merchants and lenders, the most important question at the end of each month is a simple one: can customers actually pay? Behind every card swipe, debit order and…
