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Empowering Homes: Sungrow's Innovative Solution, redefines Festive Season Joy in South Africa
Sungrow, the leading force in smart energy solutions worldwide, remains dedicated to alleviating South Africa's persistent struggle with load shedding, a challenge that often intensifies during the holidays. With recent extreme weather conditions in heat expected to continue throughout the summer season, you can revel in the festivities with peace of mind. Recent statistics underscore
BCX Releases Digital Innovation Index Report 2023
BCX, a leading technology company, in collaboration with EY-Parthenon, has unveiled the much-anticipated BCX Digital Innovation Index Report 2023. This comprehensive report aims to guide businesses by evaluating their innovation strategies and shedding light on the dynamic landscape of digital transformation in South Africa. Jan Bouwer, Chief Solutions Officer, and Innovation Sponsor at BCX expressed
Shaping the future of SA's logistic sector
With so many variables in play and supply chain conditions constantly changing, businesses need to be in a position where they can identify risk early and action effective and appropriate responses. A cargo movement update from the South African Association of Freight Forwarders on November 17 is a vivid illustration of how volatile the sector
South32 and Feenix invest in tomorrow’s leaders
With as many as one in every three individuals of working age jobless, unemployment remains a major crisis facing our nation – especially for the youth who are disproportionately affected. A recent Statistics SA Labour Force Survey revealed that most unemployed people in SA had education levels below matric, while only 10.6% were graduates, suggesting
Castrol Expands to Pinetown, Offering Growth Opportunities for Local Automotive Workshop
Castrol, a trusted name in automotive care and maintenance, has announced its association with Auto Complete, a Retail Motor Industry accredited, automotive workshop and service centre situated in Pinetown, Durban. This significant collaboration aims to provide developmental opportunities for the local motor city, including access to training solutions, marketing, and customer experience support, as well
New Zero Trust Data Resilience Model Introduced by IT Security and Data Protection Experts
The leader in Data Protection and Ransomware Recovery, Veeam Software has introduced Zero Trust Data Resilience (ZTDR), which is a model that is meant to help organizations reduce the risk of growing data security threats and improve their overall resilience. The ZTDR applies Zero Trust principles to backup and recovery as an extension to the
Time is of the essence – what businesses still need to understand about ransomware attacks
Ransomware has been a focal point in cybersecurity discussions in recent years. Despite its prevalence, a significant number of individuals and organizations lack a comprehensive understanding of the intricate unfolding of these attacks. Contrary to the misconception of instantaneous breaches through a single malicious link leading to an immediate lockdown, ransomware attacks often have a
Sungrow Empowers South African Homes to Rise Above Load Shedding Challenges
In a game-changing move tailored for the unique energy landscape of South Africa, Sungrow introduces smart energy solutions that resonate with the daily experiences of households grappling with load shedding. Real-life stories from South African users highlight the tangible impact of Sungrow's residential solution on overcoming the hurdles of power disruptions. Championing Energy Independence in
The benefits of ERPs inside a blockchain
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERPs) serves as a vital tool for businesses, enabling them to efficiently manage and integrate key components of their operations to enhance overall processes. In contrast, blockchain technology focuses on establishing cryptographic encryption, validating, and disseminating secure and immutable records or data through a digital ledger. In this system, information is collectively
Spar attributes losses to SAP
Spar Group attributes a R1.6-billion loss in turnover and a R720-million profit hit to a troubled SAP implementation in its KwaZulu-Natal region. The project, initiated in October 2022, faced go-live and integration issues, leading to operational disruptions. Spar took corrective actions, including servicing stores from other centers, but only fully resumed KZN operations in August
MTN has launched “Super Data” prepaid bundles
The telecommunications company, MTN South Africa has officially started rolling out three new prepaid bundles with large data allocations at much more affordable price points. The company mentioned that the new price plan for the Super Data is a result of overwhelming customer demand for bigger data bundles. “The Super Data bundle price plans offer
Amazon now has AI image generator for businesses
Amazon.com Inc. is venturing into the competitive field of generative artificial intelligence, unveiling the Titan Image Generator tool at its re:Invent conference. AWS, the company's cloud services arm, showcased various images of iguanas created by the tool, which is now available in preview. While AWS dominates in computing power and data storage, it faces competition
OpenAI Leadership Changes
OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman has revealed that Microsoft will be taking a non-voting, observer position on OpenAI’s board recently. What the observer position means is that Microsoft’s representative can attend OpenAI’s board meetings and access confidential information, but it does not have voting rights on matters including electing or choosing directors. OpenAI recently underwent significant
Naspers' H1 2023 Results
Naspers' interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2023 show a decrease in trading losses and a 35% growth in bottom-line profit, reaching $3.34 billion. The company attributes the positive performance to its classifieds, food delivery, payments, and fintech segments, with consolidated revenue exceeding $3 billion. Notably, gains from the partial disposal of
Coal still has a place in our energy mix
South Africa’s loadshedding crisis continues to underline the importance of a stable electricity supply to keep the economy moving. At least for now, the controversial term “baseload” in this country indicates electricity generation from coal and, to a lesser extent, some nuclear. Peak demand has always been met by our pumped-storage schemes that store and
‘View Once’ WhatsApp feature back to desktop
The popular messaging app, WhatsApp has brought back it's “View Once” feature for images and videos on its web and desktop platforms. According to reports from WABetaInfo, the feature gives users the option to send temporary images and videos that disappear after being viewed by the recipient. Initially, the feature was removed by WhatsApp due
Load-shedding Threatens Food Chain in SA
The rotational power cuts by Eskom are proving to be a severe threat to South Africa's food chain, causing significant losses for farmers. The recent heatwave compounded with increased load-shedding stages has created a major challenge for the agriculture sector, with estimates of up to 50% loss in yields reported by farmers. Deidre Carter, Agri
Broadcasting Challenges: Overcoming Adversity
eMedia Holdings, the parent company of Openview and e.tv, expressed concerns about the challenging impact of multiple factors like load shedding, a weakened currency, higher fuel prices, inflation, high interest rates, and rising unemployment, which affected its performance in the first half of 2023. During this period, eMedia reported a 0.8% decline in revenue to
Huawei moving smart car operations to new JV
The Chinese company, Huawei has revealed that it is working towards moving it's core technologies and resources in its smart car unit, which has chalked up robust sales for a number of new vehicles, to a new joint company owned up to 40% by Changan Auto. In a press release, Huawei mentioned that the new
Understanding ransomware attacks and how companies can protect themselves from being victims
As of recently, ransomware has been dominating the security conversation, and instead of things getting better, it just seems to be getting worse, and many people and organisations still don't understand how these attacks unfold. Business Tech Africa had the opportunity to sit down with the Veeam Team to find out what exactly is the