Deadline looms for netpreneur prize

The call for entries for the Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) closes on 30 June meaning African entrepreneurs have less than 10 days to submit their businesses for the chance to pitch Jack Ma and win a share of the $1-million. The ANPI is a flagship...

10 scale-up companies selected for Grindstone

From digital satellite solutions to waterless sanitation, marketing automation and creative Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, innovation is the common thread linking the 10 diverse enterprises selected for the first Johannesburg iteration of Knife...

Car-sharing boom in Russia

Transport online applications like car sharing and the booking of taxis have become the favourites of Muscovites with 67% of the residents of Russia’s capital using them daily. Moscow’s digital technologies platform ICT.Moscow and the city’s...

SA companies struggle to release trapped value in digital tech

The findings of Accenture’s Innovation Maturity Index indicate that 76% of South African companies are struggling to release trapped value – ie., they are finding it hard to convert potential opportunities, such as those presented by digital technologies,...

UJ in African first with atomic layer deposition (ALD) facility

For the first time ever, a pathway for ALD-enhanced materials to be rapidly developed and transitioned in a University of Johannesburg laboratory will be available for nearly any application. The laboratory construction is a natural next step in implementing the...

UCT now in top 20% of universities

The University of Cape Town (UCT) remains the top university in Africa according to the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings. This year, UCT moved up two places to 198th position, placing it in the top 20% of the world’s universities. Each...