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Net Age Launches the New and Improved RetailX
Net Age has launched a new and improved RetailX, the daily retail intelligence platform for South African retailers, with faster data, AI product matching and smarter alerts.
Search by Photo or Voice: How the AI Search on Crazy Plastics Actually Works
Shoppers on Crazy Plastics can snap a photo of a product or simply say what they are looking for. Here is the technology behind picture search and voice search, step by step.
GoGee Launches blog.gogee.ai: The Complete Content Platform Behind Our Clients' Articles
blog.gogee.ai is our own content platform: an editor built for writing, AI that helps rather than replaces, real SEO tooling, internal link intelligence, scheduling, search and reader analytics. Here is a full walkthrough of every part of it, with screenshots.
GoGee Launches Website Replays and the AI Assessment: Optimise Your Website With Evidence
Two new pieces of technology on Net Age websites: session replays that show you exactly where visitors struggle, and an AI assessment that explains what to fix first and why it matters.
POPI Act In Effect 1st July
Just a quick reminder that the provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) go into effect on the 1st July. Technically, it came into effect last year, but it…
Huge Privacy Fines For Google & Amazon
In the wake of the collapse of the EU-US Privacy Shield Agreement , France's privacy watchdog CNIL (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés) announced last month…
Facebook & Google Unbundling?
In the last month of last year, lawsuits were filed by the US Justice Department against Facebook, and Google's parent company Alphabet Inc. Accused of using their market power to…
Financial Regulators Warn Against Instant EFT
In a surprising announcement, South African financial bodies the Reserve Bank, and the Financial Sector Conduct Authority, issued a warning this week that consumers should beware…
Disappearing Tweets & The Return Of Verification
Twitter made two recent announcements about changes to the platform, one of which was the launch of their new "Fleets" messaging, which allows users to send a series of short…
Advertisers Working With Social Media To Curb Harmful Content
3 months after a major advertiser boycott which led to massive brands such as Coca-Cola, The Hershey Co., Unilever, Verizon, Honda, Birchbox, Ben & Jerry’s, The North Face, REI,…
Anti-Trust Report Hints At Tech Firm Break-Ups
After a 16 month long investigation, followed by a virtual hearing with the CEO's of Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google (Alphabet), the US House Judiciary committee released a 449…
Blended Model Expected For Future SA Office Work
With the unprecedented shift to remote working at the start of the nationwide lock-down nearly 6 months ago, many companies, and especially large corporate ones, discovered a…