More people across Africa have access to a cellphone network than they do to electricity, piped water or a health clinic, according to the latest Afrobarometer released on Wednesday. The survey, titled “Developing Africa’s Infrastructure: the Rough Road to Better Services”, also highlights enormous
South Africa’s digital economy is the most developed in Africa and one of the fastest growing in the world, according to an index released on Wednesday. South Africa, Egypt, Kenya and Nigeria were moving towards digital evolution, according to the MasterCard Digital Index. Developed by the company and
An application for leave to appeal a court ruling on the licensing of three pornographic pay channels will be heard in the Western Cape high court next month. The application by On Digital Media (ODM) will be heard by judge Lee Bozalek on 5 December. At the beginning of the month, Bozalek ordered
Zomato, the restaurant search and discovery service active in South African cities and other cities around the world, has been valued at US$660m (about R7,2bn) through its latest capital-raising exercise. The company, founded in India, said on Wednesday that it has closed a fresh round of funding
In the 1960s, computer programming was still viewed as a lucrative career choice for many young women. Cosmopolitan magazine at the time even ran an article entitled “The Computer Girls”, which depicted the field as a better opportunity for women than many other industries. The job was seen as
The morning session of the Gauteng e-tolls review panel on Wednesday experienced a few tense moments as an economist for Sanral took issue with objections to e-tolling. Research consultant Rudolf Botha was presenting a study he undertook for roads agency Sanral, which included the finding that
IBM wants to change corporate e-mail with a new, analytics-driven, socially orientated e-mail platform, which it’s calling Verse. Verse will get to know users by bringing to the fore information that is most important, along with the people and groups that users interact with most, the computer giant
Overall spending on IT solutions in South Africa will cross the US$13bn mark (R143bn at the current exchange rate of R11/$) in 2015, according to new research published on Wednesday by International Data Corp (IDC). The consumer, finance and government “verticals” will lead the spending charge
BitX, the Bitcoin exchange launched last year, has released a mobile application that it hopes will help emerging markets better understand and use the cryptocurrency. The app allows anyone to buy or sell Bitcoin and functions as a wallet to store the virtual currency. BitX is headquartered
Normally futurologists, especially those who deal with the impact of climate change, paint a picture so dystopian that even Hollywood runs screaming for the hills. But at last week’s four-day climate change conference, hosted by the department of environmental affairs in Midrand, it was different
