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Start-up Gotbot AI gets R2.5m funding injection

The customer experience artificial intelligence start-up gets its first funding investment and eyes African expansion.

Takealot takes flak over Black Friday deals

Consumers take to social media to slam local online retailer over its “insignificant” discounts.

Global cancer app now available in SA

Belong.Life partners with two South African cancer organisations to improve quality of life for individuals living with breast cancer.

Small South African fintech start-up sues Facebook

PrepaidWealth.com takes the social media giant to court over its suspension from the platform.

South African Police Services

Combatting cyber-related gender-based violence in spotlight

Local police collaborate with non-profit organisations to fight technology-facilitated gender-based violence.

Sibahle Malinga

Shocking details as Facebook releases transparency report

Fake accounts, images of nude children, content on suicide and self-harm were culled by Facebook and Instagram.

Samuel Mungadze

Don’t let your personal information become someone else’s business

Social engineering cyber criminals can often get your personal information with just a few data points, so the less you share publicly, the better, says Charl Ueckermann, CEO of AVeS Cyber Security.

AVeS Cyber Security

Africa shies away from reporting Facebook violations

The social network laments that a fewer number of people in Africa report community standards violations.

Samuel Mungadze

LinkedIn Talent Awards

BSG wins Best Employer Brand at 2019 LinkedIn Talent Awards

Using creativity, commitment and strong leadership, BSG has curated its LinkedIn presence to grow its people, which has helped the company achieve success.

Facebook’s Libra to forge ahead amid partner exodus

Industry players believe the planned crypto-currency will still launch regardless of key partners pulling out.

Open source community should help fight fake news

Making a fake news detection model available as a global open source project means it could be improved by the community to make detection faster, says Aroma Rodrigues, Python developer at a major bank in India.

Marilyn de Villiers

More partners ditch Facebook’s Libra crypto project

In a blow to Facebook’s ambitions, major payment companies including MasterCard and Visa have quit the group behind the project.