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12 hr 44 min agoGerman business delegation positive about SA collaboration
Representatives of the German Federal State of Brandenburg were impressed with South Africa’s technological potential and opportunities (more)
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21 hr 33 min agoTechnology improves utilities effectiveness
Technology is enabling utilities to be more effective, especially in terms of monitoring transformers, according to Grant Wells of Dynamic (more)
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African Utility Week on air with Channel Africa
The African Utility Week (AUW) conference and exhibition, which began today in Cape Town, has partnered with Channel Africa to broadcast (more)
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1 day 18 hours agoAfrican Utility Week conference and exhibition kicks off in Cape Town
The African Utility Week (AUW) conference and exhibition started at the Cape Town International Convention Centre today with some 5,000 (more)
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1 day 20 hours agoAfrican domain forum coming to Durban
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1 day 23 hours agoGeek Girl Dinner zooms in on social entrepreneurship
The bimonthly Geek Girl Dinner in Cape Town (GGDCPT) will be enlightening attendees on the role of social entrepreneurship with Barbara (more)
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2 days agoSeedstars World, introducing new entrepreneurs
The Seedstars World pitching event kicked off in Cape Town on Friday (May 10), giving invited startups the opportunity to pitch their (more)
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5 days agoHashtag hosts social media hangout for SA offices
Social media enterprise Hashtag is hosting a Google Hangout session today (Friday) to encourage mainstream social media networks to (more)
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6 days agoStart Up Africa kicks off in Cape Town
Tech startup pitches dominated the startup initiative Start Up Africa event as the three day programme kicked off at the Bandwidth Barn in (more)
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6 days agoAfrica included in WordPress decade bash
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The tech world is coming to Nigeria – JunkMail
The rapid growth in Nigeria’s tech sector is attracting experts and investors from other parts of the world who are now visiting Nigeria (more)
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8 days agoSAP to host business transparency talks
Technology software company SAP will be hosting a series of conferences, seminars and round tables in Johannesburg, South Africa, to (more)
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13 days agoThird annual Digital Services Africa conference to take place in June
The third annual Digital Services Africa (DSA) conference is set for June 25 and 26 and will take place in Sandton, Johannesburg.
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16 days agoTomorrow's leading companies have yet to be founded
Bryan Nelson, business development manager at Google South Africa, believes the next companies to join the Fortune 500 have not even been (more)
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16 days agoApexPeak to launch in Singapore
Online financing startup ApexPeak is planning to move into the Singaporean market as it completes the 88mph startup programme in Cape Town.
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19 days agoSA celebrities check out startups for partnerships
South African television presenter Jeannie D and her partner, entrepreneur Brennan Wright, attended the 88mph Demo Day yesterday evening to (more)
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19 days agoSocial media as a means of customer engagement
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19 days agoUtilising technology to improve call centre effectiveness
Call centres need to implement new technologies which are more consumer friendly and move away from an obsession with voice, according to (more)
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20 days agoOld Mutual on globalisation, people and technology
Companies need to take culture, background, languages and legislation into consideration when expanding globally, with technology playing a (more)
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20 days agoCloud Credential Council moving into Africa
The Cloud Credential Council (CCC), which offers training and certification to companies and individuals wanting to practice and implement (more)
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20 days ago88mph Demo Day underway in Cape Town
Ten Cape Town-based startups will present to investors today in a bid to secure follow-on funding and increase the chances of their (more)
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20 days agoFuture of payments does not need Mastercard or Visa - banking chief
The “gorillas” of Mastercard and Visa will in the future no longer be needed because of the direction of banking and payment solutions (more)
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20 days agoUsing technology to improve customer engagement
Businesses must use technology to engage with customers through the building of an effective customer relations management (CRM) system, (more)
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21 days agoInternet makes word of mouth archivable
The internet has empowered consumers to share stories, making word of mouth archivable for the first time, according to Paul Galantis, (more)
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21 days agoCEM Conference underway in Cape Town today
The Customer Experience Management (CEM) conference kicked off in Cape Town today, with various speakers on a variety of topics, including (more)
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22 days agoCape Town becoming an ihub, says investor
Investors have acknowledged the African continent’s growing global potential as six tech startups pitched at a Demo Day Test Drive hosted (more)
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23 days agoDesign expert says UX requires scientific approach
User experience (UX) should be approached as a science in measuring human behaviour, Indian design expert Srini Srinivasan said at an (more)
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25 days agoSouth African startups held back by lack of venture capital - 2go
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26 days agoMiles Ward: little teams with big results
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26 days ago2go's feature phone market makes life “very difficult”
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26 days agoScaling Facebook with 1bn monthly users with "tens of thousands" of servers
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26 days agoOpen Letter: You do Africa a disservice by underestimating how far we've come
Duncan Arthur, an independent payments, mobile and African banking expert, has written an open letter calling on primarily non-African (more)
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26 days agoAfrican entrepreneurial mindset needs reality check, says report
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27 days agoMobile, cloud key themes at SA TechEd conference
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27 days agoNomanini, innovating airtime purchases with technology
Nomanini, a Cape Town based startup, has set itself the main goal of replacing physical airtime scratch cards with mobile point-of-sale (more)
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27 days agoScale Conference underway in Cape Town
The Scale Conference convened today at the Kirstenbosch Gardens, Cape Town, bringing together experts to discuss and share innovations and (more)
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27 days ago16th annual AfricaCom agenda announced
AfricaCom has announced the draft of the agenda of the 16th annual AfricaCom conference to take place in Cape Town, South Africa, in (more)
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28 days agoSA education system has its head in the sand, claims parent
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29 days agoHellocomputer and Draftfcb 2013 hackathon dates announced
Hellocomputer and Draftcb are planning to hold their second hackathon at their office in Katherine Street, Sandton, Johannesburg on May 9.
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30 days agoHumanIPO chief to speak at Cloud World Forum Africa
HumanIPO managing editor Tom Jackson will be among the guest speakers at next week’s second annual Cloud World Forum Africa in (more)
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30 days agoTech should be integrated in business for higher investment allure
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30 days agoPitchIN Stellenbosch to host business breakfast for SA entrepreneurs
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30 days ago88mph startups pitching for investment at Demo Day
The first 10 startups to complete 88mph’s Cape Town accelerator programme will pitch to potential investors at Demo Day on Thursday, (more)
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1 month agoU-Start picks six SA startups to take to Milan
The U-Start Bloom competition last night (Thursday) chose the final six South African startups who will travel to Milan next month to pitch (more)
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1 month agoMore patience, infrastructure needed for tech investment growth in Africa
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1 month agoAfrican tech still an oxymoron to international investors
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1 month agoTelecoms better chance for African investment than startups
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