African entrepreneurs in line to win $75k

The fifth Anzisha Prize application phase is now open, and the search is on to find Africa’s youngest, most exciting social and business entrepreneurs under 22 years of age.Africa is the world’s youngest continent, with over 600-million people under the age of 25. The...

Impact of Samsung’s mobile payments play

Samsung’s entry into the mobile payments market poses more challenges to Google than to Apple. This is according to Gilles Ubaghs, senior analyst: financial services technology at Ovum, who offers the following analysis: “Since being established in 2012, LoopPay has...

Unemployment worries youth

Young people are concerned about their prospects of finding employment – and they are looking to employers that they perceive as stable. A Universum survey finds that 63% of students are concerned about their prospects of finding a job after graduation, which is...

Europol takes down cybercriminal servers

European law enforcement agencies yesterday seized computer servers used by cybercriminals to infect hundreds of thousands of computers around the world with malware designed to steal personal and financial information, as well as money, from unsuspecting consumers....

Privacy breaches the top concern in SA

The number one concern among technology users in South Africa is the impact of technology on their privacy. This was the finding of the annual poll on How Personal Technology Is Changing Our Lives, which surveyed 12 000 Internet users, in 12 countries over 12 months....

Promoting brands in Africa isn’t easy

For brands eager to tap into the growing African markets and the region’s estimated 350-million middle class consumers, relying solely on macro-economic data such as GDP growth, population trends and regulatory governance data to identify opportunities and predict...