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Fast Company Showcasing innovative businesses that are changing their industries. Providing you with listings of businesses, business tips and recommended business resources.Facebook supports student creative talent at 2018 Loeries
Facebook is supporting creativity in young people with their student challenge at the 2018 Loeries that will see young people using their skills to bring attention to an important issue. The winners of the […]
Amazon may soon introduce a live TV recorder
Amazon.com Inc. is developing a new device that records live TV, working around cable providers and encroaching on TiVo Corp.’s market, according to a person familiar with the plans. The device, dubbed “Frank” inside Amazon, is a […]
Rwanda, Uganda top African destinations for IT investment
Rwanda and Uganda are emerging a favourite destinations in Africa for investment in information and communications technology. However, the leading investor destinations in the ICT sector in sub Saharan Africa – Kenya, Nigeria and South […]
Airbnb to open 14 apartment complexes by 2020
Airbnb Inc. is set to debut another almost-hotel—and, according to its development partner, it has many more to come. The latest project for the Silicon Valley home-rental behemoth is a branded apartment complex in Nashville, […]
Nedbank brings “Plug and Play” to Africa
Nedbank announced the expansion of their US partnership with Plug and Play, the world’s largest innovation platform, to include South Africa for the first time. Together, the entities will connect ten visionary entrepreneurs from around […]
23% of SA’s high tech consumers own cryptocurrency
The Digital Lifestyle Measure report by MBIT shows that 23 percent of South Africa’s “high-tech” consumers own cryptocurrency. According to the DM segmentation, a high-tech consumer is classified as a DLM 5 consumer while a […]
FaceTime group feature will launch later this year – Apple
Apple will not launch FaceTime group calls with iOS 12 and macOS Mojave any time soon. This is according to a report by Engadget. The report stated that Apple didn’t explain why it was cutting the feature, but […]
Cell C has launched new LTE-A packages
Cell C has launched new fixed-LTE-A packages, which offer data bundles of between 15GB and 200GB a month. The company is calling it the Data Democracy packages and it is available as SIM-only products or bundled with […]
Samsung to suspend operations at China mobile phone plant – Report
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is considering suspending operations at one of its mobile phone manufacturing plants in China due to slumping sales and rising labor costs, the Electronic Times reported on Monday. Samsung might stop […]
Fossil’s newest smartwatch has a Google Pay feature
Fossil has just released their fourth generation of Fossil Q smartwatches and they have added some great features to the watch. The new smartwatches are the Fossil Q Venture HR and Q Explorist HR. The only […]
OPINION: Jack Ma’s business lessons for digital Africans
CAPE TOWN – This week will go down in history as the significant moment for people who are working towards building the Digital Africa. Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of the Chinese unicorn Alibaba, visited […]
Former Tesla chief engineer rehired by Apple
DURBAN – The chief engineer of Tesla, Doug Field has left the electric car company to return to Apple according to the Verge. Field was formerly the VP for Hardware Engineering in 2013 when he […]
MyGate by Wirecard launches secureEFT to boosts online sales for merchants
Merchants who receive payments from consumers via electronic funds transfer (EFT) can now get instant notification of successful settlement, significantly speeding up transactions. secureEFT, an instant EFT payment service that allows customers to make […]
Bringing Artificial Intelligence to Africa
Fast Company SA chats to Chairman Roy Bannister and Event Director Nick Bradshaw about this year’s most anticipated AI event, the AI Expo Africa. What is your vision for the AI Expo Africa 2018? […]
Empower yourself this Women’s Month
Too many South African women remain trapped in poverty and untenable situations, when there are a number of steps they could take to empower themselves and become financially independent. For possibly hundreds of thousands […]
How to choose a fund manager
During July (National Savings Month), much has been said and written about the importance of saving. As an individual investor, one of the key decisions you will have to make is choosing the right fund […]
Entrepreneurship is not a lucky draw
From selling sweets at school and on the streets of Joburg CBD, to creating an award-winning, ground-breaking advertising agency, M&N Brands 34-year-old Group CEO Zibusiso Mkhwanazi tells of a life spent searching for a reason […]
Tearing the roof off house designs
Increased densification and environmental consciousness are realities of a new era where much emphasis is placed on getting the green thumbs-up and finding effective ways to work with smaller spaces. It may have become more […]
Business enablers driving new change in a digital world
What is an enabler? Large enterprise often attempts to drive new strategic change initiatives across the organisation but often fall short of the desired execution. This can be because disparate projects are mobilised with little […]
Thinking a century ahead
Sustainability and climate change are two focal points within the global warming discussion as our environment becomes more vulnerable each year. Fast Company SA chats to Ludovic du Plessis, Global Executive Director of Louis XIII […]
Expanding through innovation
South Africa’s small businesses represent 90% in all economies and contribute 40% towards the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). However, small to medium enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups are […]
Behavioural changes in a digital working world
Hat are these “new ways of working”, and what behavioural changes do we see? We’ll explore four of these: the self-help culture, collaboration, “always on”, and how meetings are changing. In the world of […]
African Armani
Giving up on internal auditing, one of the highest paying careers, to study fashion could have been a futile pursuit of happiness, but the decision paid off for fashion designer and style influencer David Tlale […]
EU to fine Google a record $5bn over Android
Google will be fined about 4.3 billion euros ($5 billion) by the European Union over apps for Android mobile devices, setting a record for antitrust penalties, according to a person familiar with the EU decision. […]
