Stop turning CEOs into content creators
TechCentralby Change Logic17d ago
Last week, I published a LinkedIn post looking to connect with experienced change management professionals. I expected a few responses and perhaps some useful introductions.
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top 77%Anthropic's IPO stands alone
TechCentralby Agency Staff17d ago
A once-busy pipeline of US technology listings for the rest of the year is down to just Anthropic.
Apple's foldable iPhone Duo goes on sale in South Africa
TechCentralby Agency Staff17d ago
Sales of Apple’s first folding phone, the iPhone Duo, began on Friday, with market watchers betting on whether the device can reinvent the small foldables market in the same way the iPhone did for...
South Africa's digital ID could change how you pay
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen18d ago
South Africans could one day use the digital ID home affairs is building to “seed” a payment credential under the Reserve Bank’s PEMKey programme, sparing them a separate onboarding process...
AI's boardroom honeymoon is over
TechCentralby Gary Stocks18d ago
AI has done what decades of digital transformation could not: it has made technology a regular boardroom discussion. But getting onto the agenda was the easy part.
4Sight revenue jumps 29%, but software resale squeezes margins
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod18d ago
4Sight Holdings grew revenue by 29.3% in the six months to August, but most of the growth came from reselling software at thin margins, and profit rose far more slowly.
Rand stablecoin issuers welcome treasury's crypto rethink
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen18d ago
South Africa’s rand stablecoin issuers want treasury’s rewritten cross-border crypto rules to treat their tokens as payments rather than capital flows, and to let companies use them.
Malatsi asks Icasa to rewrite network-sharing rules
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod18d ago
Communications minister Solly Malatsi has asked the sector regulator, Icasa, to rewrite South Africa’s 16-year-old rules on how operators share infrastructure and has set out principles for...
Why investors are souring on Netflix
TechCentralby Agency Staff18d ago
Netflix’s cut to its advertising sales forecast is fuelling concerns that its growth engine is losing steam, threatening the edge that made it a model for the media industry.
Innovex 2026: taking opportunity to where potential lives
TechCentralby Innovex Summit19d ago
As South Africa marks Entrepreneurship Week, it is time to rethink how we support entrepreneurs. Beyond celebrating their resilience, we need platforms that connect their potential to real...
Discovery ranks cybercrime as its top risk, citing frontier AI
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod19d ago
Discovery has moved cybercrime to the top of its risk register, warning that advanced AI models are speeding up attacks to the point where they could outpace its defences.
Treasury backs down on crypto rules after 'thousands' of comments
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod19d ago
National treasury and the Reserve Bank will rewrite their draft rules on moving crypto assets across South Africa’s borders after receiving “thousands of comments” on the proposals, finance...
Godongwana cuts fuel levy again, with diesel getting the bigger break
TechCentralby Staff Reporter19d ago
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana will cut the general fuel levy by R3/l on diesel and R1.50/l on petrol from 4 November, the government’s second round of fuel tax relief this year.
Bolt EVs hit Sandton and the OR Tambo airport run
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen19d ago
Bolt has extended its electric vehicle ride category to Johannesburg, five months after launching it in Cape Town, and the cars will be owned by an association that represents meter taxi and...
Treasury puts R150-million behind MyMzansi government app
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod19d ago
Treasury has set aside R150-million in this year’s adjustments budget for the team building MyMzansi, the app through which government wants South Africans to reach its services and, eventually...
Critical PHP vulnerabilities put a large part of the web at risk
TechCentralby Agency Staff19d ago
The developers of the widely used PHP programming language said on Wednesday they would release patches for two critical vulnerabilities imminently, as EU cybersecurity officials warned that...
Vodacom pitches a lighter AI rulebook as Pretoria redraws its policy
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen19d ago
Vodacom has urged African governments not to transplant the EU’s AI Act wholesale, warning that European-scale compliance burdens could “stifle innovation, price out emerging African developers and...
Newspapers hit with import duty to save South Africa's last newsprint machine
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod19d ago
Most imported newsprint now carries a 5% customs duty, after the International Trade Administration Commission (Itac) backed Sappi’s bid to protect the newsprint machine at its Ngodwana mill in...
Before South Africa licenses Starlink, it should look at Ukraine
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod19d ago
Last week, Ukrainian drone operators found that their satellite links stopped working above about 160km/h.
Your AI isn't as smart as it sounds
TechCentralby Prof Etienne Barnard20d ago
In September, an Anthropic researcher resigned with a warning that the people building powerful AI “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade”.