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Free cybersecurity awareness online training for businesses launches

Global eCommerce platform Amazon has launched an online platform that offers free cybersecurity awareness training to business owners and individuals across the world. Amazon…

GirlCode partners with Amazon to upskill unemployed women

GirlCode South Africa has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create a free joint learnership training programme targeted at 30 unemployed women for…

SA startup goes global and lists product on Amazon

South African drink startup PURA Soda has listed its product range on the global eCommerce platform, Amazon, enabling the locally-born startup to cross-shores and…

Amazon to incubate black entrepreneurs as part of R365m equity equivalent initiative [Updated]

Correction (11 November): Amazon Web Services today clarified in a statement that its newly launched equity equivalent investment programme aims to support 100% black-owned…

Amazon Web Services to open data centres in Cape Town in 2020

Tech entrepreneurs in Cape Town are set to benefit, with the announcement yesterday by cloud computing services provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) that it will open…

Advice for startups that ship large quantities of products

If you are starting a new business that will be shipping lots of products either domestically or internationally then you need to make sure…

Silicon Valley’s monopoly on innovation is over says Takealot’s Willem van Biljon

The monopoly that Silicon Valley has long held in technology innovation is “largely” over, says tech entrepreneur and take-a lot co-CEO Willem van Biljon….

Q&A: ‘Not every cloud is born equal’, look for the best provider advises expert

If you run a tech startup, it is most likely that you are using cloud computing to some extent. It is no longer a…

Zero-equity Swedish accelerator, THINK, calls for international applications

THINK, a Swedish-based zero-equity accelerator, has opened a call for applications from early-stage tech startups from around the world. Applications close on 27 August….

Machine learning is fast becoming business imperative for marketing

Imagine a world ruled by robots, where artificial intelligence (AI) is used to wield commercial influence and drive our daily decisions. Imagine if your…

70 semifinalists will compete at the Seedstars World Global Summit

More than 4000 startups have attempted to make their way to the Seedstars World Global Summit, according to Seedstars World. The event takes place on…

Entrepreneurs, want to know how Amazon founder Jeff Bezos started out? [infographic]

It’s not easy starting one of the world’s largest ecommerce stores, especially if you don’t know how to. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos…

Singaporean video & subtitle startup Viki to be acquired by Japan’s Rakuten

Sources report that Singaporian startup Viki is to be acquired by Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten. Having been dubbed “Hulu for the rest of the…

6 reasons why your internet startup should be using Amazon Web Services

Y Combinator co-founder, Paul Graham, defines a startup as “a company designed to grow fast.” The definition highlights one of the hardest problems internet…

CrowdFlower: Providing a global 24-hour workforce

Labour-on-demand startup CrowdFlower envisions future workplaces without stifling offices and unyielding daily schedules. The San Francisco firm has taken another step in that direction…

Fastest fixed internet providers in South Africa revealed for Q4 2021

Recruitment AI start-up Job Crystal is here to help SMEs

Local delivery-as-a-service company raises R70M

Kenyan fintech secures $1M in seed funding, eyes expansion

What is Wordle? How to play the viral web game

Microsoft announces plans to acquire Activision Blizzard

Five features that make the HUAWEI MateView GT 34-inch Sound Edition a must-have

Road test: Toyota’s GR Yaris hot hatch

The 2022 new Ford Ranger is a bakkie for the future

Peugeot’s double-cab bakkie lands in South Africa