May 29, 2019
Kathy Gibson is at SingularityU Exponential Finance Summit in Cape Town – In an exponential world, new and exponential business models are coming to the fore and, in this environment, a new term – exonomics – is becoming more relevant. Amin Toufani,...
May 29, 2019
In his 2019 State of the Nation Address, President Ramaphosa said South Africa had chosen to be a country of the future at a time when the world was changing at a pace and in a manner that was unprecedented in human history. Together, SAICA and the University of...
May 29, 2019
Seacom is adding eight new Points of Presence (PoPs) across Africa to enable more African businesses to connect to cloud facilities worldwide, as well as to the continent’s first Microsoft Azure data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town. In Kenya, Seacom has...
May 28, 2019
Although consumers are starting to accept artificial intelligence (AI) and automation is increasing, they still prefer dealing with a human being when querying a bill (85%), changing account details (62%), making a complaint (84%), buying a product or service for the...
May 28, 2019
Smartphone unit sales in South Africa declined by about 7% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2019, while the value of the smartphone market climbed nearly 3% to around R8,6-billion as shoppers splashed out on higher-end models with larger screen sizes. That’s...
May 28, 2019
Global sales of smartphones to end users declined 2,7% in the first quarter of 2019, totalling 373-million units, according to Gartner. Despite its absence from the US, Huawei maintained its ranking as the number two smartphone vendor worldwide and continued to reduce...
