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Productivity On A Large Screen

AI-Enabled Samsung Galaxy Z Series with Innovative Foldable Form Factor & Significantly Improved Screen Delivers New User Experiences Across Productivity, Communication & Creativity The…

Everlytic Launches Cutting-Edge AI Studio with WhatsApp Chatbots for Smarter Communication

Everlytic is set to redefine customer communication with its revolutionary AI Studio, using WhatsApp for seamless chatbot interactions. The company, South Africa’s most trusted…

Everlytic’s new API Communicator feature enhances customer engagement across multiple channels

Everlytic is making it easier than ever before to streamline customer touchpoints by delivering automated messages across multiple channels. This comes as South Africa’s…

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Savant Launches Savant Build Cohort 3 to Accelerate Deep-Tech Innovation in the Green Economy

Savant is proud to announce the launch of Savant Build Cohort 3, set to begin in April 2025. This accelerator programme will continue to…

Technology and skills: AWS’s plan for Sub-Saharan Africa

AWS’s investments in Sub-Saharan Africa are reshaping the region’s digital landscape, laying the groundwork for innovation, and addressing critical gaps in technology adoption and…

Simplicity at scale: The role of leadership in agile transformation

Simplicity is often undervalued in leadership, but Jonathan Allen, Director of Enterprise Strategy at AWS, believes it is central to modernisation and agility. “Complexity…

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Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Microsoft today announced the general availability of the all-new Surface Pro and the all-new Surface Laptop to empower users in South Africa to unlock…

Honor Magic V3 launches, four things to know

Honor introduced its latest foldable device, the Honor Magic V3, at IFA in Berlin. It is expected to be available in the South African…

Honor Magic V3, a Guinness world record attempt

Guinness World Record holder Bryan Berg, alongside Honor, will attempt to build the tallest house of cards in eight hours without using any glue….

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Renault got design right in 2024

People think being a car designer is glamorous, but it’s not. You can work for years, even decades, without ever having one of your…

Nio Firefly brings Galaxy design to compact EVs

Nio might only be a decade old, but like most Chinese car companies, it is boundlessly ambitious. As European, Korean and Japanese brands struggle…

Google Cast and other Christmas goodies for Rivian

Google Cast and YouTube are what you need when your vehicle must become a place of refuge from holiday traffic or scheduling stress. We…

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How SA ride hailing startup Hailer wants to undercut industry giants Uber, Taxify

Malvin Nkomo might be crazy to go up against ride-sharing giants Uber and Taxify, but the Joburg entrepreneur says he’s confident he has a plan…

Zapacab relaunches as white-label solution to save SA taxi companies from Uber

Uber’s disruptive nature in South Africa’s taxi sector is more heated than ever before. So much so that it just prompted the relaunch of…

South African taxi startup Zapacab closes up shop and bids us farewell

The South African taxi app startup, Zapacab, is closing shop. Since it launched in beta under the 88mph accelerator programme in July 2013, the…

Zapacab Releases the Simplest App to Order a Taxi

Cape Town mobile taxi ordering startup Zapacab has released native apps for Android and iOS devices. This is in response to passengers demand for…

Zapacap Optimizing Taxis Will Help Cape Town Transport

Cape Town has been named as ‘the third most congested city in the world’ -a pretty incredible statistic for the city often named as…

Catching a Ride With Zapacab – Tech Report

Zapacab made its first appearance on TV this past week on eNCA Tech Report. Seth Rotherham of 2OceansVibe gives a great run down of…

Mellowcabs: using tech to disrupt first and last mile transport, the African way

South Africa’s taxi industry, which carries an estimated 60% of the country’s commuters, is a multi billion rand pie. It’s no surprise then that…

Zapacab shifts it up a gear with new look and features

We recently released a new version of our Zapacab mobile site with new features requested by users. The two most worthy of being noted…

Zapacab signs 4 Cape Town cab companies for exclusive July soft launch

Getting a Taxi in South Africa is difficult at the best of times. Calling through to a noisy dispatch centre and shouting your pickup…

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