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With 4.37 billion users worldwide, email persists as a core digital marketing channel. The question is, with the evolution of how businesses communicate with consumers, is email marketing still effective?Almost every new communication app has claimed it will eliminate email. Slack, the most notorious of these claimants, marketed itself as…

 I woke up one morning, did my usual doomscroll on Twitter (previously known as X, back when things made sense), and there it was - another empire burning down in real time. This time, it wasn’t a washed-up actor making a last-ditch attempt at relevance. No, this was different.This was…

A new partnership between Bank Zero and Green Riders aims to bolster entrepreneurship among South Africa’s marginalised youth, leveraging cost-effective banking to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which are vital to the country’s economy.SMEs account for 91% of formalised businesses, employ about 60% of the labour force, and contribute…

The Resistance Against Impunity Movement (RAIM) on Tuesday said it strongly condemns the ongoing practice  of South African banks arbitrarily closing accounts under the pretext of “reputational risk.” RAIM stated, "This  practice has disproportionately targeted Black individuals and Black-owned businesses,  serving yet another instrument of economic exclusion and financial sabotage…

When torrential rains unleashed devastating floods in KwaZulu-Natal in 2022, we witnessed a stark strategy with over 400 lives lost, thousands displaced, aggregate and damages exceeding R17 billion. This disaster, alongside many others countrywide sends a clear message - we remained highly exposed to climate change impacts, with devastating consequences…

iOCO’s (formerly EOH Holdings) plans to reduce debt in the second half of its financial year, and it may consider share buybacks or acquisitions after that, co-CEO Thys Summerton said on Wednesday.Summerton spoke in an online presentation after the technology group reported six consecutive months of profitability, and a focus…

The Public Investment Corporation (PIC) has invested $40 million (arounf R740m) into Africa50 Group, the pan-African infrastructure investor and asset manager, marking a significant step towards harnessing African capital for the continent's infrastructure needs.The PIC, representing the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) and one of Africa’s largest asset managers managing assets…

By Prejlin Naidoo Many people consider ChatGPT the first major milestone of generative artificial intelligence but the technology at the frontier of innovation today is something known as the AI agent. These goal-oriented AI applications use large language models (LLMs), reasoning approaches, access to tools, and autonomous goal-seeking to respond to…

The introduction of South Africa’s two-pot pension fund system has dramatically changed how pension funds are administered, shifting interactions from employer-based engagement to direct communication with individual members. This transformation has required administrators to implement large-scale innovations to manage the surge in member queries and claims efficiently.For financial advisory firm…

Equity markets were mixed Wednesday as nervous investors brace for Donald Trump's wave of tariffs later in the day, with speculation about what he has in store stoking uncertainty on trading floors.Equities have been battered leading up to the US president's announcement -- which he has dubbed "Liberation Day" --…