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Visa identifies gap in digital tools used by SA SMEs
2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Search jobs Advertise your job vacancies View more, Apple or Spotify Subscribe to daily business and company news across 19 industries South African small businesses are showing strong interest in digital platforms that combine payment processing with everyday business management, but adoption remains relatively low, according to a new Visa report.
The Dynamite in the Machine: AI and the explosive impact on shopping and payments
Everyone will remember the hype before the pandemic about the so-called fourth industrial revolution. 4IR was everywhere. While we were distracted by a global shutdown, the 4IR has not gone anywhere. In fact, all eyes are trained on the single-most disruptive and powerful tool of the era: artificial intelligence. Comparisons to the industrial revolution are understandable, but perhaps a more precise comparison for AI is: dynamite.
Retailers face a Black Friday payment security test as online shopping surges
2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Search jobs Advertise your job vacancies View more, Apple or Spotify Subscribe to daily business and company news across 19 industries As South Africa’s Black Friday trade increasingly moves online, retailers and payment providers face growing pressure to balance transaction growth with fraud prevention, making payment security an increasingly important part of digital commerce strategy.
The Dynamite in the Machine: AI and the explosive impact on shopping and payments
Wayne Steppe, Enterprise Architect at Ecentric Payment Systems. Image supplied by PR company. Everyone will remember the hype before the pandemic about the so-called fourth industrial revolution. 4IR was everywhere. While we were distracted by a global shutdown, the 4IR has not gone anywhere. In fact, all eyes are trained on the single-most disruptive and powerful tool of the era: artificial intelligence.
Google opens free AI and digital skills training to South Africans
2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Search jobs Advertise your job vacancies View more, Apple or Spotify Subscribe to daily business and company news across 19 industries Google has launched a free online learning hub that allows South Africans to access more than 15 digital and artificial intelligence (AI) training programmes, with lessons that can be downloaded and completed offline.
Homegrown AI platform puts African tech on the map
2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Search jobs Advertise your job vacancies View more, Apple or Spotify Subscribe to daily business and company news across 19 industries Johannesburg-based BioInformatiCo — a South African-developed AI platform that helps researchers prepare clinical trial databases more quickly — was a runner-up in the 2026 CDISC AI Innovation Challenge.
AI and the explosive impact on shopping and payments
By Wayne Steppe, Enterprise Architect at Ecentric Payment Systems Everyone will remember the hype before the pandemic about the so-called fourth industrial revolution. 4IR was everywhere. While we were distracted by a global shutdown, the 4IR has not gone anywhere. In fact, all eyes are trained on the single-most disruptive and powerful tool of the era: artificial intelligence. Comparisons to the industrial revolution are understandable, but perhaps a more precise comparison for AI is: dynamite.
Travel demand is rising, but tourism ads are failing to break through
2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Search jobs Advertise your job vacancies View more, Apple or Spotify Subscribe to daily business and company news across 19 industries Travel demand is growing, but tourism advertising is struggling to capture travellers’ attention, with 60% saying many travel ads look similar and half unable to recall the last tourism advertisement they saw.
#BehindtheCampaign | Impimpi-Impempe confronts difficult societal issues
2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Search jobs Advertise your job vacancies View more, Apple or Spotify Subscribe to daily business and company news across 19 industries What happens when speaking out against corruption makes you a traitor rather than a hero? That question sits at the heart of the Impimpi-impempe campaign developed by Avatar Agency Group in collaboration with Corruption Watch.
Tshwane water crisis prompts audit of Gauteng treatment works
2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Search jobs Advertise your job vacancies View more, Apple or Spotify Subscribe to daily business and company news across 19 industries Cases of gastrointestinal illness linked to contaminated water in the Bronkhorstspruit area of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality have increased from 408 to 833.
The Dynamite in the Machine: AI and the explosive impact on shopping and payments
By Wayne Steppe, Enterprise Architect at Ecentric Payment Systems Everyone will remember the hype before the pandemic about the so-called fourth industrial revolution. 4IR was everywhere. While we were distracted by a global shutdown, the 4IR has not gone anywhere. In fact, all eyes are trained on the single-most disruptive and powerful tool of the era: artificial intelligence. Comparisons to the industrial revolution are understandable, but perhaps a more precise comparison for AI is: dynamite.
Kruger Park’s Skukuza Rest Camp main gate to close for maintenance
2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Search jobs Advertise your job vacancies View more, Apple or Spotify Subscribe to daily business and company news across 19 industries Skukuza Rest Camp's main gate in the Kruger National Park will be closed from 2 November to 4 December 2026 for repairs to its roof structure, with visitors directed to a temporary entrance.
South Africa’s leading HR organisations crowned at the 2026 Future of HR Awards
2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Search jobs Advertise your job vacancies View more, Apple or Spotify Subscribe to daily business and company news across 19 industries The Future of HR Awards 2026, brought to you by Topco Media, has announced its winners, highly commended recipients and finalists following the awards ceremony at the Indaba Hotel, Fourways, on 15 October 2026.
AI is changing retail faster than the payments industry thinks
2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Search jobs Advertise your job vacancies View more, Apple or Spotify Subscribe to daily business and company news across 19 industries Artificial intelligence (AI) is already changing retail and payments, but not necessarily where businesses expect it to. While AI-powered shopping agents are beginning to reshape the customer journey, machine learning has been helping payment providers detect fraud for decades.
How to manage payment security as effectively as enterprise retailers Original
While the majority of people may not think twice about how they pay for their goods, ever-evolving retail payments, both in person and virtually, keep many CIOs awake at night worrying about where the next attack will come from and how best to mitigate against it. Retailers have no choice but to keep pace with rapidly evolving tender types that bring with them massive cost and complexity considerations and most importantly, added security and compliance risk.
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