The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA), the global, consensus-building standards development organization of IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, announces the culmination of its collaboration with policymakers on the recently passed Indonesian Government Regulation, Governance of Electronic Systems in Child Protection. Through insights and expertise grounded in the

Google parent Alphabet plans to spend around US$75-billion in capital expenditure in 2025, most of it on AI and cloud infrastructure. This scale of this investment has sparked debate, especially when compared to leaner approaches by competitors like China’s DeepSeek, which has achieved near-peer performance at a fraction of the cost. However, in the context

Moniepoint's POS terminals are ubiquitous across Nigeria Moniepoint Inc. (“the Company” or “Moniepoint”), announces it has been ranked by the Financial Times as one of Africa’s fastest-growing companies for the third consecutive year, reinforcing its rapid growth as one of the continent's leading financial institutions for Africans, everywhere. This press release features multimedia. View the

Blue Label Telecoms has said it may list mobile operator Cell C on the JSE as part of a broader restructuring of the group aimed at unlocking shareholder value. The shares surged. In a statement to shareholders on Friday, JSE-listed Blue Label said that should the listing of Cell C go ahead, it would be

NTT DATA, a global leader in digital business and technology services, today announced a comprehensive enterprise-grade Smart AI Agent™ Ecosystem with industry-specific solutions to help clients transform their business. The company also announced a patented plug-in solution that turns legacy bots into autonomous intelligent agents, and an expanded key alliance network for providing best-fit solutions.

After several months in the wilderness, Nvidia shares have found their way again as doubts about Big Tech spending subside, trade tensions with China ease and new chip buyers emerge. The stock rallied this week and is on track for the best month in a year after a series of long-term sales agreements during US

MultiChoice Group said on Friday that it has concluded proceedings against an importer of counterfeit power supply units (PSUs) for use with its decoders. The proceedings, under the Counterfeit Goods Act, saw a South African company called Uni Li Cell and its sole director — who the company hasn’t named — facing prosecution following the

Horizon3.ai, the global leader in offensive security, today announced it has gained Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP®) High Authorization, unlocking the ability to support even the most security-sensitive federal missions. This milestone fulfills Horizon3.ai’s previously announced commitment to bring proof-based security to government agencies operating at the highest levels of compliance and risk

Boomi Acquires Thru, Inc., Strengthening Secure Managed File Transfer (MFT) and Advancing Context-Aware Integration Boomi™, the leader in AI-driven automation, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Thru, Inc., a provider of enterprise-grade Managed File Transfer solutions and trusted Boomi partner. The acquisition marks a strategic expansion of Boomi’s file-based integration capabilities, all within a

Yves Herman/Reuters Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram parent Meta Platforms has launched new facial recognition features “to help combat scams and support faster, more secure account recovery” on its platforms. According to a Friday statement from Meta, the new tools are designed to detect and remove “celeb-bait” ads that use images of public figures to lure

Rimini Street Announces Upcoming 2025 Investor Conference Schedule Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a global provider of end-to-end enterprise software support and innovation solutions, and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today announced that Michael L. Perica, chief financial officer, and Dean Pohl, vice president, treasurer and investor relations, will

Elon Musk. Benoit Tessier/Reuters Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok blamed unsanctioned changes to its system for responses this week that included controversial theories about “white genocide” in South Africa. Grok, the AI bot from Musk’s xAI, has thoroughly investigated and reversed the “unauthorised modification” to its technology, which led to responses that “violated xAI’s

Fibre-optic internet is transformative. It has the potential to catapult communities into the digital age, especially in education, remote work opportunities and value-added services. Zoom Fibre’s mission has always been to bring the power of fibre to communities and to bridge the digital divide by providing reliable, high-speed connectivity to support learning and innovation. To

Plaxcidiah Muzembe, Debtsource Security training is essential for the business because 95% of security incidents are the result of human error. This, says the World Economic Forum’s ‘Global Risks Report 2024’, comes from people clicking on phishing emails, using 12345 as their passwords, or accidentally sharing sensitive information. Their inability to detect a scam or

Artificial intelligence and data science are playing an ever-increasing role in decisions by retailers of where to place products in their stores to improve sales. In years gone by, product positioning was an art practiced by retailers using a combination of data, experience and instinct. Retailers understand their shoppers, the neighbourhood they operate in and

Moving to the cloud can save businesses money, but the reality is that without a good cost optimisation strategy, overspending can occur. Stacklet’s ‘State of Cloud Usage Optimisation 2024’ shows that companies are losing billions in cloud waste every year. More than three-quarters (78%) of the respondents estimated that up to 50% of their cloud