technology
How to Reduce Risk When All Your Information is Out There
Anyone who uses banking and financial services, social media, mobile apps, or has retail accounts has shared their personal information far and wide across digital systems. Preventing identity theft and protecting yourself against scams has become more difficult in this new environment. “Social media and messaging platforms, web browsers, and mobile apps already have access to vast amounts of data about each user. You can choose not to use social media or digital tools to avoid this, but it is not very practical to do so and would exclude you from some of the modern digital conveniences,” Anna Collard, SVP of content strategy and evangelist at KnowBe4 Africa, says it is virtually impossible to avoid having personal data circulating in the digital realm. “Even if you did so, you...
In-chat Payments Help CMOs Address Costly Breaks in Customer Journeys
Chat Commerce is taking the lead when it comes to helping brands convince users to complete customer journeys. In fact, a simple, safe payment link within a WhatsApp message could hold the key for many companies, especially those in financial services, struggling with customer conversion, acquisition, and even cart abandonment. As user behaviour has shifted, organisations are relying more and more on their digital channels for topline revenue generation. However, the teams responsible for designing and managing those digital channels are feeling the pressure with the latest data from Clickatell’s latest Chat Commerce Trends Report showing 81% of customer service leaders saying they are compensated based on performance and sales within their teams. “When we surveyed more than 340 senior cus...
In-chat Payments Help CMOs Address Costly Breaks in Customer Journeys
Chat Commerce is taking the lead when it comes to helping brands convince users to complete customer journeys. In fact, a simple, safe payment link within a WhatsApp message could hold the key for many companies, especially those in financial services, struggling with customer conversion, acquisition, and even cart abandonment. As user behaviour has shifted, organisations are relying more and more on their digital channels for topline revenue generation. However, the teams responsible for designing and managing those digital channels are feeling the pressure with the latest data from Clickatell’s latest Chat Commerce Trends Report showing 81% of customer service leaders saying they are compensated based on performance and sales within their teams. “When we surveyed more than 340 senior cus...
In-chat Payments Help CMOs Address Costly Breaks in Customer Journeys
Chat Commerce is taking the lead when it comes to helping brands convince users to complete customer journeys. In fact, a simple, safe payment link within a WhatsApp message could hold the key for many companies, especially those in financial services, struggling with customer conversion, acquisition, and even cart abandonment. As user behaviour has shifted, organisations are relying more and more on their digital channels for topline revenue generation. However, the teams responsible for designing and managing those digital channels are feeling the pressure with the latest data from Clickatell’s latest Chat Commerce Trends Report showing 81% of customer service leaders saying they are compensated based on performance and sales within their teams. “When we surveyed more than 340 senior cus...
YouTube Announces Lineup Set to Perform at the Africa Day Concert
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TymeBank Announces Coen Jonker as the Group’s CEO in SA
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MTN Joins the Global Network Initiative
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SportPesa Founders Cash in $65.2-Million Dividend in Four Years
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Lacking Visibility: today’s biggest cybersecurity threat (and how to fix it)
Do you know the condition of your cybersecurity estate right now? Most companies have a tenuous grasp on whether their cybersecurity products and services are working as expected. What is the status of your patching? Are the security services delivering what you pay for? Do you know what the gaps and blind spots are in your security coverage? Above all, how long does it take for you to learn those answers? Days? Weeks? Creating accurate security reports takes time because you rely on numerous independent and uncoordinated vendor products with individual agents and data standards. Information often has to be manually compiled and harmonised into a single report. Time and insight are precious commodities for cybersecurity. Information from last week is not very useful to your current threats...
GameStop unveils beta cryptocurrency wallet and upcoming NFT platform
American electronics retail firm GameStop has taken a step into the world of cryptocurrencies, unveiling a proprietary blockchain wallet that will feature nonfungible token functionality. The GameStop Wallet will allow gamers to acquire, send and store Ether (ETH), ERC-20 tokens and NFTs through a self-custodial browser extension running on the Ethereum blockchain. A mobile application is also in the works. It’s official! The GameStop Wallet is here. Download: https://t.co/dK2dmRmwRI — GameStopNFT (@GameStopNFT) May 23, 2022 The wallet will run on Ethereum’s Loopring layer-2 scaling protocol designed for decentralized exchanges, which boasts of high throughput, low-cost trading and payment capability. Users will be able to download and install the wallet extension through the Chrome Web St...
Distributed Power Africa & EDF Extend Partnership to South Africa
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Why Data Science Should Be Accessible to Everyone
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