Record number of African innovation entries

The Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) has received 108 nominations from over 36 countries for the $1-million Health category of the 2018 Al-Sumait Prize for African Development, which closed for entries at the end of June. The annual Al-Sumait...
Bridging SMME funding gap to fire up innovation

Bridging SMME funding gap to fire up innovation

Kathy Gibson reports from Sandton – While SMMEs lament the lack of funds available to them, investors battle to find investable SMMEs, creating a vicious cycle that results in a dire shortage of new small businesses and the resultant innovation they bring. The...

Would you trust work orders from a robot?

People are ready to take instructions from robots at work – but may not be adequately prepared to do so. This is according to a new study conducted by Oracle and Future Workplace, which found that, while people are ready to embrace artificial intelligence (AI)...

SMMEs key to SA job creation

Kathy Gibson reports from Sandton – Who is creating the new jobs that are so desperately needed in South Africa? It turns out that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are great job creators, says Paul Smith, CEO of small business research consultancy Igniter. A...

New player enters SA PC market

One of the MEA region’s fastest growing PC companies, I-Life Digital Technology, has entered the local market with the signing of an agreement with major retail group JD Group. After cementing its leadership in the Ultra Slim notebooks, 2 in 1 Detachable Tablets...

Teraco smooths the way for Amazon

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect is now live in South Africa and located at Africa’s only vendor neutral data centre, Teraco. AWS Direct Connect enables clients to directly connect to their AWS resources in an AWS region. The service is accessible via a...