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IBM Broadens Global Software Reach on AWS Marketplace

IBM has dramatically expanded the availability of its software portfolio on AWS Marketplace to 92 countries, the company announced on 6th May. This expansion…

Deloitte and AWS Join Forces to Drive Cloud Adoption Globally

In a strategic move to accelerate cloud computing adoption across growth markets, Deloitte and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have entered into a multi-year Strategic…

Google Cloud Taps Telecom Veteran to Lead Security Push in Middle East, Turkey and Africa

Google Cloud has appointed Noor Al-Sulaiti as head of security business development and government relations for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa, tapping a…

AWS Aims to Propel Black-Owned Tech Start-Ups

In a move to bolster South Africa’s burgeoning technology sector, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is doubling down on its efforts to nurture and support…

Cloud security myths that could be holding your small business back

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) considering digital transformation as a business goal this year could find the idea daunting. Migrating to the cloud both…

Amgen forges ahead with generative AI to expedite advanced therapies

California-based biotechnology pioneer Amgen has announced an expanded collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to utilise generative artificial intelligence in streamlining the discovery, development…

AWS supercharges Amazon Bedrock

At AWS re:Invent this week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled major upgrades to Amazon Bedrock, its fully managed platform for building and deploying generative…

Salesforce and AWS forge deeper alliance

In a landmark announcement at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Salesforce unveiled a significant expansion of their longstanding strategic partnership. This collaboration…

Clarity AI and AWS advance sustainable investing at scale

Clarity AI, a leading provider of environmental and social insights, has announced its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to leverage the latter’s generative…

IBM and AWS strengthen alliance to propel generative AI solutions across critical use cases

IBM announced a significant expansion of its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to empower mutual clients in unlocking the full potential of generative…

Fostering an inclusive future: Navigating the AI race in South Africa

In the realm of artificial intelligence (AI), the global narrative often fixates on the race to supremacy. As South Africa positions itself in this…

Cape Town Welcomes Amazon Web Services (AWS) Skills Center

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has further extended its commitment to democratising access to cloud skills training with the inauguration of its first international AWS…

AfricArena, AWS to host start-up summit in New York

On the eve of its Johannesburg summit, AfricArena has made a ground-breaking announcement that it will also be hosting a conference in New York…

Amazon to equip SA youth with cloud computing skills

RLabs, a South African social entrepreneurship that sparked a global movement, has now partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to train learners in the…

VC4A calls on scale-ups to pitch for up to $10m at 2020 Venture Showcase Series A

African startup funding platform VC4A is calling for African scale-ups looking to raise between $500 000 and $10-million to sign up to its Venture…

Top startup web events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [27/04/2020] [Updated]

On Thursday (30 April), Founders Factory Africa and AfricArena brings together fund managers and limited partners to discuss short-term measures that can be adopted…

The tech sector in SA is still a hot place to be [Opinion]

South Africa’s economic outlook may be gloomy, with annual growth forecast to barely past 1.5% over the next three years, but things are still…

SA insurtech Solvency to launch ‘disruptive product’ in January after netting investment [Updated]

UPDATE (21 January 2020): Solvency this week launched its new insurance product. Founder Mutoda Mahamba said in a statement that while the product is…

Sw7, Amazon Web Services launch virtual B2B technology business accelerator

Joburg-based tech accelerator Sw7 and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have partnered to launch a virtual B2B technology business accelerator which they claim to be…

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…

SA startups to get access to IT infrastructure, services with Silicon Cape, AWS partnership [Updated]

UPDATE (17 September): In an earlier version of this story we misstated that startups would be able to get free access to AWS services through the…

New guidebook to be launched on Joburg’s startup scene

South Africa’s commercial capital Joburg is fast becoming the country’s next big startup city. A survey by Ventureburn in November last year revealed that…

New guidebook on Cape Town’s startup scene to launch

Startup Guide, a European publisher that produces guidebooks on various startup scenes around the globe, will next week launch Startup Guide Cape Town —…

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