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Amazon's ever-growing presence in SA - both physically and in the 'cloud'
JOHANNESBURG — Last week, I attended the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit in Cape Town. It was the third event of its kind in the city and the attendance has surged from around 600 IT developers several years ago to over 2,000 last week. It's no surprise that demand for…
Braamfontein's Tshimologong precinct targets becoming 'go-to-place' for world-class tech
JOHANNESBURG — A recent R14.5m funding boost from the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) for Braamfontein's Tshimologong precinct is another feather in the cap for the digital innovation hub. The precinct - which is the brainchild of Professor Barry Dwolatsky, the director of Wits University’s JCSE (Johannesburg Centre of Software Engineering) - first opened…
DO. FAIL. LEARN. REPEAT: Nic Haralambous on changing how SA sees entrepreneurship
JOHANNESBURG — Nic Haralambous has spent his entire working life as an entrepreneur. And as he tells me in this interview, "15 years of back-to-back failures" have taught him a hell of a lot and sparked the writer within him to pen his debut book entitled, DO FAIL LEARN REPEAT – The Truth Behind Building…
SHOCKER! Illegal cigarette trade EXPLODED with Moyane at SARS, SA losing billions - study
JOHANNESBURG — For years, TISA says it looked on while illicit cigarettes, which fail to comply with local tax laws, have flooded the market. In addition, TISA says that this coincided with a breakdown in its relationship with SARS, starting in 2014 - the year in which Tom Moyane was…
Meet Darren Roos, the South African who is CEO of global software firm IFS
JOHANNESBURG — Wherever you go in the world, you're bound to bump into a South African. One of those South Africans is Darren Roos, who now lives in the UK. In April this year, Roos - who is a long-time veteran in the enterprise software space - became CEO of…
Naspers' hefty discount: Who's to blame? Sanlam analyst takes a closer look.
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Safari Investments: Property jewel hidden in the small cap graveyard - with a plan to make it shine
Safari Investments has been a heavy investor into South Africa's former townships long before it became popular, and is now reaping the benefits of its far-sighted strategy. After a R900m fund raising exercise, the company is very lightly geared and is hunting high quality investments bit in SA and in…
Tony Leon on Ramaphosa's rise to power, DA's woes and SA's changing politics
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Here's what you need to know about the Allan Gray Investment Summit 2018
JOHANNESBURG — Allan Gray's Investment Summit is being held in Cape Town and Sandton later this month respectively on 17 July and 18 July. It's shaping up to be a very interesting event for those interested in the investment world as Allan Gray's Tamryn Lamb outlines below. What also looks…
WEBINAR: Global Portfolio June 2018 - Annualised return back to 35%; goodbye MetroBank, hello Adobe
A good month for the share prices of Amazon and Alphabet, which between them account for 40% of the portfolio, ensured a healthy uplift from $358k to $360k in the total portfolio, despite some notable price declines elsewhere in the portfolio. Chinese companies Tencent and Alibaba came under pressure as…
Disrupting SA car insurance, local fintech 'Naked' seeks peeling away costs
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Why Liberty failed basic security rules in alarming ransom hack - cyber expert
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Southern Africa’s PE landscape: In conversation with Mike Donaldson
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Innovation can defeat poverty and inequality, if we do it right – HSRC’s Glenda Kruss and Moses Sithole
When we think about ways to create jobs and fight poverty in South Africa, most people picture investments in agriculture and manufacturing. Those sectors are often seen as key drivers of employment and as the best way to grow an emerging economy. But new research suggests that, in fact, the services sector…
Disruptive OUTvest - at R100pm, top quality savings plans are now available to all
When the now hugely successful business called Outsurance opened shop in 1998, those running South Africa’s short-term insurers lost little sleep. Slowly but surely, however, the disruptor ate away at the establishment and is today one of the country’s Big Three alongside Santam and Mutual & Federal – with a…
Inside story of a four-year project which readied Distell for a likely growth catapult
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Swimming legend Natalie du Toit, Jaco Rossouw on levelling sports field with blockchain
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Meet Riccardo 'Fluffy Pony' Spagni: Plett-based lead developer of the Monero cryptocurrency
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Ronnie Apteker on Netflix streaming SA's 'Catching Feelings', investing in Honey Pot tech
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Tim Noakes: 'Not guilty' Banting verdict is historic and will have a huge impact
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