Jan 29, 2020
Business interruption catapulted from fifth position in last year’s Allianz Risk Barometer (23% of responses) to the top business risk (31% of responses) in Africa and the Middle East this year as larger and more complex business interruption (BI) losses...
Jan 29, 2020
Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users are on track to reach 1,57-billion units in 2020, an increase of 3% year over year, according to Gartner. In 2019, worldwide smartphone sales declined 2%, the first time since 2008 that the global smartphone market...
Jan 29, 2020
Cell C has taken steps to address its market share in South Africa by embracing the gig economy and implementing the Spaza 5 000 pilot project. The project, carried out by gig technology company M4Jam, gathered market analytics in the informal sector to help Cell C...
Jan 29, 2020
Agility Robotics is launching Digit, a robot with arms and legs to work with humans and in human spaces, for commercial sale; and, Ford Motor Company is the first customer, receiving the first two robots off the line. This cooperation continues the existing...
Jan 29, 2020
Government intervention in the economy simply does not work, writes Mpiyakhe Dhlamini, a data science researcher at the Free Market Foundation. It is a mystery, then, why so many otherwise intelligent people keep calling for more of the same. After years of low growth...
Jan 29, 2020
Technology can help solve the world’s most pressing problems. In every corner of the world, digital economy is helping us become more connected to each other and the organisations upon which we rely. The Cisco Global Digital Readiness provides insight into how...
