Corporate

10 Tech trends Directors Need to Know as 2020 Approaches

Heading into fall with eyes on 2020, corporate boards should brace for the increasing impact of digital migration, artificial intelligence (AI), and cultural shifts on their companies – and what this means for their role as directors, says WomenCorporateDirectors Foundation (WCD). “Trends point to a very different reality for boards today than five or ten years ago,” says Susan […]
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Africa Proptech Forum to disrupt Africa’s Real Estate Sector

Africa Proptech Forum is set to be hosted in collaboration with Proptech Africa and the continent’s leading real estate gathering, the 10th annual Africa Property Investment (API) Summit. The event will take place at WeWork’s first African office location, The Link, Johannesburg on the 1st of October 2019 attracting significant attention from private and institutional […]
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Facebook, Africa Check Partner to Combat Fake News in Swahili & Other African Languages

Facebook has partnered with Africa Check to add new local language support for several African languages as part of its Third-Party Fact-Checking programme – which helps to assess the accuracy of news on Facebook and aims to reduce the spread of misinformation. Launched in 2018 across five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal […]
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Huawei Rivals Android With New HarmonyOS

Huawei just announced a new operating system called Harmony OS  at its developer conference in China. The company said the HarmonyOS is a microkernel-based distributed OS for all platforms including mobile phones, wearables, laptops, and televisions. This comes after the tech firm was being blacklisted in May by US President Donald Trump, Huawei has been rumoured to be […]
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Raspberry Pi 4 available for Pre-order

Latest offerings from the Raspberry Pi Foundation recently received Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s (ICASA) stamp of approval The Raspberry Pi 4 has been launched globally but South African fanatics will have to pre-order and wait a little longer to get their hands on these revolutionary microcomputers. RS Components South Africa (www.RSOnline.Africa) is excited […]
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MultiChoice Nigeria launches MyGOtv app

Multichoice Nigeria has launched a new mobile app, MyGOtv, for its digital platform, GOtv. According to John Ugbe, the CEO of MultiChoice Nigeria, the platform will put the power of self-service back into the hands of the customers and allow them to manage viewing preferences, clear error codes, check account balances, make payments, change packages […]
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