Small business key to Industry 4.0

Small businesses will be critical to South Africa in the 4th industrial revolution, while access to information will revolutionise education. These are some of the highlights from panel discussion debating: “Is South Africa Ready for the 4th Industrial...

Fintech startup eases invoicing, payments

South African fintech startup walletdoc has introduced a new way for businesses to collect more money from customers using easy and secure online credit and debit card payments on invoices and statements. Leonard Shenker, joint CEO of walletdoc, comments:...

Barclays Africa relaunches as Absa Group

Barclays Africa Group has officially been renamed Absa Group and started trading under its new name and new share code (ABG) on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange today. The name change marks the start of a new era for the group as a standalone African group with a new...

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)...