South African SMEs advance amid growing adoption of emerging digital tools despite economic pressure, says Mastercard.

Tata Consultancy Services has partnered with Anthropic to create a global business unit dedicated to Claude adoption, targeting highly regulated industries including financial services, healthcare and aviation.

The South African Post Office’s business rescue practitioners apply for a court order to end the business rescue proceedings, but modernisation plans remain in limbo.

General Atlantic is backing Westcon-Comstor as investor and lender, freeing R7.1-billion for a planned special dividend.

The AI governance platform is expanding to Android and Huawei devices as it sets its sights on international clients.

Malaysia has one of the most active retail trading communities in Southeast Asia. Internet penetration is high, financial literacy is growing and a significant portion of the population has a genuine interest in participating in global financial markets. Against that backdrop, the question of which brokers are trustworthy and accessible to Malaysian traders is one […]

The company completes its transformation into an AI-driven lifestyle ecosystem operator, and all units are now profitable.

Do we really want to play dice with our planet?

A series in the Guardian recently declared “it’s time to talk about geoengineering.” So let’s talk about it. And let us start with some simple truths about this cluster of techno-optimistic “quick fixes” which purport to somehow offset our slow progress towards zeroing out planet-warming carbon emissions.

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Crypto executives warn proposed exchange control rules will lock SA businesses out of a global stablecoin-powered payments system.

Graduates have been trained and placed into long-term roles across 11 government departments, aligning with digitisation efforts.

Meta Platforms’ paid WhatsApp messaging tier adds stickers, themes and custom icons for R28.99/month.

The youngsters developed tech-enabled solutions tackling waste, water conservation and biodiversity challenges in their communities.

Cape Town specialists perform an advanced heart procedure using 3D mapping and precision radiation planning.

Visa is readying South African banks for AI shopping agents, and its OpenAI deal adds further momentum.

Naspers and its European spin-off, Prosus, expect full-year core headline earnings to jump by up to 28%.

In this week’s newsletter: The melting of the Arctic’s summer sea ice is the most visible upshot of the climate crisis. Refreezing it might be a long shot – but do drastic times call for drastic measures?

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Speeding across rapidly melting Arctic ice on a snowmobile gave me a vivid feel for its beauty and fragility. The brilliant...

Home affairs has overhauled its online booking system to lock out the syndicates that hoarded and sold slots.

CloudZA and AWS gathered enterprise leaders to debate running autonomous agentic AI at scale.

The future of AI in South Africa is in local, distributed infrastructure closer to where data is created and used.

AWS partner BBD outlines engineering-led strategies for turning cloud spend into predictable bottom-line value.