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@techcentral Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:43:07
The payment ring winning over South Africa's banks
Smart ring start-up Vezopay has doubled its banking partners, and expects to have signed up five banks by year-end.
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@techcentral 3 hours ago
South Africa targets 2030 for its first satellite launch from home soil
UKZN's Aerospace Systems Research Institute wants to scale commercially, with a suborbital flight targeted for 2028.
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@techcentral 6 hours ago
New poll undermines the case against a Starlink deal
Polling finds 58% of registered voters would exempt US companies from B-BBEE in exchange for investment and jobs.
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@techcentral 7 hours ago
Kaspersky on how to secure a supply chain you do not control
Kaspersky's Sergey Soldatov on treating supplier security as part of your own, from onboarding to exit.
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@techcentral 8 hours ago
Meet the CIO | Derek Wilcocks on how AI personalised Vitality
Discovery group CIO Derek Wilcocks on personalised Vitality, the limits of AI coding and why growth beats cost-cutting.
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@techcentral 8 hours ago
Meet the CIO | Derek Wilcocks on how AI finally personalised Vitality
Discovery group CIO Derek Wilcocks on personalised Vitality, the limits of AI coding and why growth beats cost-cutting.
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@techcentral 9 hours ago
AI spreads at Standard Bank, but the tech bill barely budges
Standard Bank's banking technology costs grew just 2% as falling amortisation masked a 6% rise in cloud spending.
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@techcentral 10 hours ago
Inside Google's frantic push to close the AI gap
Anthropic's Claude Mythos and OpenAI's latest model updates have left Google playing catch-up in frontier AI.
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Why the AI gold rush may be smaller than Eskom hopes
South Africa's biggest data centre operator expects renewables to cover more than half its consumption by the end of 2027.
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@techcentral Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:07:18
Only a quarter of SA firms are running AI for real
More than half of companies surveyed plan AI cloud migrations within 18 months, but only about a quarter run AI in production.
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@techcentral Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:48:30
TCS | Money just became native to the internet – Steven Boykey Sidley
Steven Boykey Sidley discusses x402, stablecoins and the payments layer the internet never had.
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@techcentral Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:44:03
Build or buy software? AI is rewriting the answer
AI is reshaping the buy-versus-build decision in financial services. The question is no longer as binary as it sounds.
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@techcentral Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:24:24
Big changes to Vodacom Group board
Airtel Africa's former CEO is joining the Vodacom Group board, while chairman Saki Macozoma is stepping down.
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@techcentral Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:51:24
Sixty60 now drives more than a third of Shoprite's growth
Sixty60 turned over R25.5-billion and accounted for close to half the growth in Shoprite's South African supermarkets.
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