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EngineerIT: Low code platforms are helping businesses and kids work with AI

Low-code and no-code solutions are increasingly gaining traction in the face of severe and ongoing skills shortages in the tech sector – and they’re also changing how children are taught to code.

iAfrica: 3 Ways Technology Can Help SMEs Survive Loadshedding

Local businesses are scrambling to keep afloat in the face of ongoing global economic pressure, loadshedding, water shortages, unseasonal heat (or cold) and rate hikes. While there are no quick fixes to any of these, technology can help alleviate some of the burden by allowing SMEs and their employees to work more flexibly.

MyBroadband: Best VoIP providers for businesses in South Africa

Many South African businesses are doing away with their traditional landlines in favour of a more modern solution — voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP).

IT-Online: Technology and law firms of the future

Technology is changing the way businesses operate at unprecedented rates, including the legal profession. From virtual hearings to background checks, file sharing and research, technology is changing the way law is practised across the world.

Business Report: Five things SMEs can do now to prepare for Black Friday

Whether you believe Black Friday and Cyber Monday are expected to grow or shrink, it’s not a season that retailers, particularly SMEs, can ignore.

Retail Brief Africa: Outbound call centres are increasingly adopting virtual agents: it’s about time

Outbound call centres have never had to work harder to remain relevant. Today’s customer has a plethora of tools that allow them to screen and block unsolicited calls. And even when they do pick up, they increasingly expect to have their needs met in the same way they do in other parts of their lives.

Digital Street SA: Four ways online SMEs can build trust – and keep it

The democratisation of the online world has seen South African consumers spending more time and money online than ever before. Internationally, around 30% of consumers have changed their shopping behaviour from physical shopping trips to online shops and market places.

Moneyweb: Mr Price expands its insurance offering

Mr Price Money – a division of clothing and homeware retailer Mr Price Group – has partnered with Cape Town-based start-up Root to establish a simplified life insurance solution called Life Matters.

Business Report: Six mistakes SMEs make online, and how to maximise your presence

With e-commerce adoption accelerated by three to five years as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, and online retail in South Africa in 2020 growing by 66%, it is perhaps understandable that small to medium enterprises (SMEs) have found themselves getting online out of necessity.