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Amazon Marketplace is hiring in South Africa
Amazon has made a commitment to its plans to launch a South African marketplace, and the company is currently advertising 30 full-time positions in the country, a fair portion of which are marketplace-related. The online retail company is currently for the hunt for a marketplace manager, B-BBEE programme manager, marketing head, ER and HR compliance
Apple launches an emergency update for this year’s tenth zero-day
Apple is launching a new set of Rapid Security Response (RSR) updates to address its tenth zero-day vulnerability in 2023. Reports say that the new zero-day has been exploited in attacks and impacted entirely up-to-date iPhones, Macs, and iPads. Found by Apple’s WebKit browser engine, the exploitation allowed attackers to gain arbitrary code execution on
Sasol in trouble for overpricing natural gas
Sasol Gas is under prosecution by the Competition Commission for marking up natural piped gas prices by as much as 72%. Referring to a complaint against the company on Monday the 10th of July 2023, the Competition Commission has revealed that Sasol has charged excessive prices on natural gas for almost a decade. This is
BATTLE OF THE GYMS AS VIRGIN ACTIVE FACES COMPETITION AUTHORITY COMPLAINT
This news article discusses a complaint filed by a small gym owner in South Africa, Body Action Gym, against Discovery Vitality, Virgin Active, and Planet Fitness. The complaint alleges anti-competitive behaviour and claims that Discovery Vitality subsidizes up to 75% of their members' gym membership fees when they join Virgin Active or Planet Fitness, while
Disney+ app not on Hisense TVs in SA since launched
It seems like South African households have to keep plugging in an additional smart streaming device or laptop to enjoy Disney+ on their Hisense TVs for now as there has been no Disney+ app for Hisense TVs on the company’s Vidaa and Vidaa U operating systems in South Africa. That Hisense’s Vidaa U operating system
Key AI researcher leaves Google
One of the best artificial intelligence researcher from Google, one who co-authored one of the tech company’s most influential papers in the field is set to leave the company to launch a start-up. Llion Jones helped write the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is All You Need,” and he gave the confirmation statement to Bloomberg that
WeChat platform gives space to Apple
WeChat by Tencent has recently revealed that Apple has opened a store on its social media platform, marking an expansion of the US firm’s retail channels in the world’s second largest economy. WeChat is the one that made the announcement, and it is currently China’s dominant messaging app that also provides e-commerce, live-streaming and payment
Electric 4×4 that drove from Netherlands to South Africa
Using an electric car primarily recharged using solar power, a Dutch couple has travelled from the Netherlands to South Africa. Founders of 4×4 Electric, Maarten van Pel and Renske Cox, went on a road trip Amsterdam in a modified Skoda Enyaq iv80 SUV on 4 November 2022 and entered South Africa on 8 July 2023.
Canadian court rules thumbs-up emoji counts as signing a contract
A court located in the Canadian province, Saskatchewan, has made a ruling against a grain buyer who responded to a contract sent to him with a thumbs-up emoji, forcing him to honour the agreement. There was a dispute that started between farmer Kent Mickelborough and grain buyer Chris Atcher when Mickelborough signed a contract to
Google in the middle of testing medical AI chatbot in hospitals
Google has launched Med-PaLM 2, which is a large language model (LLM) designed to answer medical questions, and it has been going through tests at various hospitals since April 2023. The company had Med-PaLM 2 take off at its I/O event in May 2023, and it is a variant of Google’s PaLM 2 — the
Affordable uncapped Internet for homes without fibre at 50Mbps
You don’t necessarily have a fibre network available in your area as there are several uncapped wireless Internet packages on the market with at least 50Mbps download speeds for South African households. As much as fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connectivity has proliferated in the past few years, a lot of households in the country still don’t have
It seems like China’s tech crackdown is over
Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings saw their shares going up Hong Kong today after China’s US$984-million fine against the Jack Ma-founded Ant Group appeared to signal the end of a regulatory crackdown on the country’s technology sector. Coming shortly after the penalty last week, the Alibaba affiliate announced a share buyback that values the fintech
Discovery Health CEO on Government’s NHI model
Ryan Noach from Discovery Health has revealed that the single-funder model described in the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill would not be able to achieve the government’s goal of equitable access to healthcare. Revealing that Discovery Health does not endorse the single-funder model proposed in the NHI Bill, he said this approach is not only
Load shedding shoots up as snow hits Jo'burg
As South Africans are shivering due to one of the most powerful winter frontal systems in years, there is a higher demand for electricity which also means intensified load shedding. Eskom has revealed that high demand, coupled with a “slight reduction in generation capacity”, has resulted in the need to impose stage-4 load shedding from
Reports reveal SABC on the edge of collapse
According to SABC’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), the company is said to be in extreme financial distress and could be forced to apply for business rescue. Reports have also revealed that the company is set to announce a loss of more than R1 billion for the financial year ended March 2023. The company has mentioned
MTN committing to invest R65bn in Nigeria
MTN Group has made a commitment to invest $3.5 billion (R65 billion) in Nigeria over the next five years. Mcebisi Jonas who is the chairman for the Pan-African telecom provider, said the company’s plans for its most lucrative market on Friday when the telco’s executives and directors met Nigeria’s new president Bola Tinubu. Even though
US schools starting to deploy robots that can surveil campuses and confront intruders
Some schools in the United States have now turned to robots to help beef up campus security and potentially confront intruders. According to the Wall Street Journal reports, Santa Fe High School that is located in New Mexico, became among the first US schools to test an autonomous robot that uses artificial intelligence to learn
R3.4 billion issued for VIP protection a year
South African government spends more than R3 billion on VIP protection for government officials. But the most recent events have brought into question what exactly this money is being spent on. Talking to eNCA, Wayne Duvenage who is the CEO of Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) said R3.4 billion was spent on VIP protection for
Vodacom’s Cape Town head office fire contained
The regional head office in Cape Town for Vodacom South Africa was on fire on Sunday the 9th of July. According to various eyewitness accounts on social media, it seems like the fire was on the roof of the building, which is covered in solar panels. Later then Vodacom gave and update that the fire
Transnet unable to use 700 locomotives
Transnet has been struggling to use 700 locomotives from its current stock due to a lack of spare parts and maintenance. Transnet Freight Rail chief commercial officer, Bonginkosi Mabaso revealed that the primary challenge is the lack of spare parts and an inability to maintain Transnet’s locomotive fleet, in an interview with Newzroom Afrika. Mabaso