There are five main triggers behind the $3-trillion tech crash that tore through Wall Street on Thursday, according to Nigel Green, CEO of deVere Group. His comments come as the Nasdaq plunged 5.5% in its most brutal session since April 2025, slamming into correction...

The prospect of South Africa losing its benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) understandably raises concerns, writes Meluleki Nzimande, partner at Webber Wentzel. Preferential access matters, particularly where exporters operate on tight...

By 2029, 30% of employees who were terminated and replaced by AI will be rehired, often at a higher cost, as organisations struggle to align workforce decisions with evolving business needs, according to Gartner. At the research group’s recent HR Symposium/Xpo,...

South Africa has emerged as one of the Commonwealth’s leading countries for youth artificial intelligence readiness, ranking 13th out of 56 nations in a international study, as the new research finds a possible $9,18-billion increase in the level of the country’s GDP...

Holiday retail planning used to follow a predictable playbook: Optimise the checkout funnel; launch the campaigns; stock the shelves; brace for Cyber Week. But in today’s market, that playbook is obsolete. Data from the Salesforce Shopping Index tells the story...

AI adoption is expanding rapidly across OECD economies, but significant gaps among businesses and generations risk limiting the benefits of digital transformation, according to the OECD Digital Economy and Society Outlook 2026. Large firms are more than twice as...

The United Nations has launched its first system-wide toolbox designed to ensure that people, rather than machines, remain accountable for public decisions in smart cities in the era of artificial intelligence (AI). AI is already at work in city halls around the...

CFOs are under increasing pressure to show returns from AI investments, yet productivity gains in most organisations are too marginal to materially impact financial performance or consistently lower headcount, says Gartner, adding that active governance is needed to...

As AI and increasingly connected technologies reshape the way businesses operate, South African organisations must rethink how they manage cybersecurity, with greater accountability at board level and a stronger focus on resilience, trust, and collaboration. This was...

The chip selloff triggered by the Democrats’ midterm sweep is likely to deepen in the coming days as investors price in higher energy and financing costs for the AI buildout, though indiscriminate selling now risks punishing the sector’s strongest companies alongside...