Author: Staff Reporter

A new report by Cisco predicts that more traffic will flow across the Internet in the next five years than in the history of the global interconnected network.

First National Bank said on Tuesday that it is launching the ability to tap for transactions at its ATMs.

Telkom has become the first mobile operator in South Africa to implement fully communications regulator Icasa’s end-user subscriber service charter, which governs data expiry.

South Africa’s largest online retailer, Naspers-owned Takealot, has so far been able to mostly withstand the strain of the Black Friday sale, though it had some early issues with a third-party payment gateway.

Smartphone device sales in South Africa rose by 16% in the third quarter of 2018 as the consumer technology market showed resilience, despite the economy entering a technical recession.

South African start-up Jini Guru has launched a smartphone app and QR card to allow users to make micropayments electronically, to a car guard for example, without the need to carry cash.

Uber rival Taxify said on Tuesday that it has expanded its South African operations to include the coastal towns of Plettenberg Bay, George, Knysna and Mossel Bay.

Financial services chatbot developer FinChatBot has secured R7-million in funding from South Africa’s Kalon Venture Partners and Mauritius-based Compass Venture Capital.

South Africa now has more than 1.2 million registered .za domains. Across the co.za, web.za, net.za and org.za domains, the number is on track to exceed 1.5 million, the ZA Central Registry said on Monday.

The ANC wanted to launch a mobile virtual network operator, or MVNO, ahead of the 2019 general election, but the project has been thrown into disarray because of internecine fighting between those involved.