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Luno co-founder: Crypto is the antidote to Africa's currency woes

Crypto-currencies will solve many of the issues associated with existing fiat currencies in Africa, says Marcus Swanepoel, co-founder and CEO of Luno.

Cloud Partner of the Year

4Sight Holdings subsidiary AccTech Systems named Sage Cloud Partner of the Year

AccTech is enabling businesses in SA and Africa to succeed in migrating to the cloud, while leveraging ERP and the reliability of cloud.

4Sight Holdings

Opera touts data compression tech in #DataMustFall

As the data cost debate rages, Opera says the data compression mode on its Web browser saves users millions of rands.

Samuel Mungadze

Bringing unregistered micro-lenders into the formal economy

Taking money from an unregistered micro-lender eliminates the possibility of the borrower building a formal credit record. The right technology, however, can improve things for both borrower and lender.

Taking ‘location, location, location’ out of retail

Chatbots have improved over the years but there’s still much work to be done, say Pieter de Villiers and Brett King.

ITWeb TV: Does SA have what it takes to produce a billion-dollar unicorn? | Episode #98

Innovation Hub CEO Bangani Mpangalasane discusses Gauteng's budding start-up ecosystem, why SA has yet to produce a unicorn company, and innovation that can be a catalyst for economic development and resolve societal challenges.

Takealot edges closer to 2m customers

The online retailer sees rapid growth, as it focuses on expanding its third-party sellers’ marketplace and pickup points.

Sibahle Malinga

Geekulcha to honour Student Society leaders at #GKHack19

The local tech platform will honour the leadership of its Student Society later this month in recognition of the support it has received throughout various hackathons.

MTN foresees mass adoption of mobile financial services

MTN CEO Rob Shuter tells AfricaCom the group has around 32 million 30-day active Mobile Money customers.

Simnikiwe Mzekandaba

WordPress Hosting

Absolute Hosting launches blazingly fast WordPress Hosting

Absolute Hosting tweaked its new SuperMicro Servers with the latest SSD hard drives, CloudLinux Operating Systems, LiteSpeed Enterprise Web Server and DirectAdmin Control Panel.

Absolute Hosting

US musician’s crypto-currency to ‘kill corruption’ in Africa

Multi-platinum-selling musician Akon says his new crypto-currency aims to root out corruption and empower Africa’s youth.

Sibahle Malinga

Alibaba’s Singles’ Day rakes in record $38.4bn

The Chinese retailer says the $38.4 billion figure is an increase of 26% compared to 2018.

ZA Central Registry

SA’s Internet turns 28

South Africa’s first local Internet Protocol connection was made on this day 28 years ago.

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