Feb 15, 2018
Despite slower demand from end market and panel price erosion, the large thin-film transistor (TFT) display market expanded in 2017 in all three aspects — unit shipments, area shipments and revenue. According to a new report from business information provider...
Feb 15, 2018
In 2016, the National Treasury announced a Sugar Beverage Levy (SBL) on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) scheduled to take effect April 2018. Lullu Krugel, Maura Feddersen and Thabiso Mofulatsi, economists at PwC, unpacks some of the issues around the so-called sugar...
Feb 14, 2018
Kathy Gibson at Accenture TechVision 2018 – Enterprises have to change the way they connect with customers and employees as technology fundamentally changes the business landscape. Pervasive connectivity is a reality, and for the most part this is good – but for the...
Feb 14, 2018
Meaningful artificial intelligence (AI) deployments are just beginning to take place, according to Gartner. Gartner’s 2018 CIO Agenda Survey shows that 4% of CIOs have implemented AI, while a further 46% have developed plans to do so. “Despite huge levels of...
Feb 14, 2018
Kathy Gibson reports from PwC’s pre-budget review – As social, political and economic uncertainty preys on South Africans, one thing is certain: there’s a huge revenue deficit that has to be addressed in the budget next week. “For the last few years we have...
Feb 14, 2018
The BankservAfrica Economic Transaction Index (BETI), a broad indicator of South Africa’s economic activity, increased in January at its fastest rate on a year-on-year basis since August 2013. The actual number of transactions that underpinned the BETI increased by...
