As 4IR comes to the fore, SA’s manufacturers lag

As 4IR comes to the fore, SA’s manufacturers lag

Kathy Gibson reports – The Fourth Industrial Revolution is being positioned as the driving force behind South Africa’s economy, so there’s a pressing need for government and business to properly understand what it means. This is the word from Arthur...
Africa needs to move now on digitalisation, 4IR

Africa needs to move now on digitalisation, 4IR

African countries must act quickly and decisively to become leaders on the global economic stage. Digitalisation is providing the continent with the opportunity to accelerate growth and rapidly expand struggling economies – but it’s a small window and...

Global smartphones sales continue decline

Global sales of smartphones to end users declined 1,7% in the second quarter of 2019, totalling 368-million units, according to Gartner. “Demand for high-end smartphones has slowed at a greater rate than demand for midrange and low-end smartphones,” says...

Revenues up, volumes down for SA smartphones

Smartphone revenues grew 3,9% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2019 and unit sales dropped 4,9% to just under 3-million units in the same timeframe, continuing the same trend seen in the previous two quarters. This is according to newly released point of sale...

CEOs focus on AI, blockchain, IoT

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as the most frequently-mentioned theme among the key disruptive technologies in the discussions of the world’s leading CEO’s during the first half (H1) of 2019. This is according to GlobalData’s CEO Influencer...

Marketers not in a hurry for AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) will not become mainstream among marketers until at least 2021. This is according to a new Marketing Foresight research report from Episerver, which shows that while marketers are investing more and more in technology, some of the basics...