About a year ago, we reworked the Spotify mobile experience to refresh our Home interface. Since then, Spotify users have been able to access the content they love more quickly and easily—and maybe even discover something new straight from their home screen. But the ease and discovery don’t stop there. This month, we’re announcing a series...
Month: <span>March 2021</span>
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UJ creative writing competition expand its language categories with Sepedi and isiZulu
This year, the University of Johannesburg (UJ) Prize for South African Writing is expanding its language categories for creative writing submissions to include entries written in Sesotho sa Leboa and isiZulu. Instituted in 2006, the UJ Prize has, over the years, seen some exciting names in South African literature shortlisted and awarded for their English...
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Re-imagining Quality Education in the African Context
The rapid changes associated with technological developments have informed the way that we work and where we work; they have also necessitated a higher level of creativity and innovation, which calls for a change in the type of education that we offer Africa’s youth. Institutions such as Nova Pioneer are playing their part in preparing...
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Analysis: After Israel’s tight election, who matters and what happens next?
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to secure a solid parliamentary majority in Israel’s election, according to TV exit polls early on Wednesday which predicted no clear winner. The right-wing bloc led by Netanyahu’s Likud party had a slight edge but was in a tight race with a grouping of centre, left and right-wing parties looking...
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Nigeria Startup Vendease is building Amazon Prime for restaurants in Africa
For small and mid-sized restaurants in Nigeria and most of Africa, food procurement can be a complex process to manage. The system is such that a business can easily run out of money or have considerable savings. Most restaurants don’t have access to deal directly with farms to get better deals because they lack the staffing to chase them. Besides, they...
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5 Areas for Organisation to Achieve Future Readiness
Future-ready enterprises transform how work gets done by using rich data for decision-making, augmenting people with artificial intelligence (AI) and employing agile workforce models — with striking differences in digital adoption and operational maturity. The areas they focus on include: Cloud: Nine in 10 future-ready organisations (90%) — versus 76% of other organisations — use...
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Xbox Live Rebrand to Xbox Network
Microsoft is rebranding Xbox Live to Xbox network. Instances of the new branding started appearing in the Xbox dashboard recently for beta testers, with clips being uploaded to “Xbox network” instead of Xbox Live. Microsoft has now confirmed the name change. “’Xbox network’ refers to the underlying Xbox online service, which was updated in the Microsoft...
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Man City teamed up with Socios.com to launch Crypto fan token
English Premier League leaders, Manchester City, have joined forces with Socios.com to launch the Manchester City $CITY Fan Token. According to Sporttechie, cryptocurrency company Chiliz has partnered with Manchester City to launch a fan token on fan rewards app Socios. Fans who buy the $CITY Fan Token can vote in polls organized by the club, access...
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Man Utd sign new sponsorship deal with tech firm TeamViewer
Manchester United have agreed a five-year deal with technology company TeamViewer to become their principal shirt sponsor from next season in a reported £47 million-a-year deal, it was announced on Friday. The German-based firm will replace American car manufacturers Chevrolet, who have been the Premier League side’s main shirt sponsor since 2014. No figures were...
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Nedbank Profit down 57%, No dividend
Nedbank’s headline profit declined by almost 57% to R5.4 billion in the past year. In the first six months of the year, its profit was down more than 69%. The bank said that it assisted clients with cashflow relief of more than R120bn of loans during “peak Covid stress”. “Pleasingly clients have been able to...