Top 10 African innovators shortlisted

The African Innovation Foundation (AIF) has announced the top 10 nominees for its landmark programme, the Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA). Now celebrating its fifth year under the theme “Made in Africa”, IPA offers a grand share prize of $150 000 and...

New H3C Group takes on Chinese market

One year after the announcement of the subsidiary of Tsinghua Holdings, Unisplendour’s plans to acquire 51% share of H3C Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s China-based server, storage, and technology services business, the company finally...

Information transformation crucial for manufacturers

The 3rd Platform, built on cloud, mobility, big data and analytics, social business, and innovation accelerators, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing, robotics, and cognitive computing, are changing how manufacturers can acquire and apply knowledge. New...
Meteoric rise of mobile data

Meteoric rise of mobile data

Since 2000, when the first camera phone was introduced, the number of mobile users has quintupled globally – and, by 2020, mobile data traffic will grow nine-fold in South Africa, at a compound annual growth rate of 55%. These are among the findings of the Cisco...

Poor strategies keep Africa down

Most major corporations struggle with developing a business strategy that works – in fact, 50% of business leaders don’t believe they have a winning strategy to begin with and almost all report missing major opportunities in the market. About two-thirds of...

IBM opens quantum computing to the public

For the first time ever, IBM Research is making quantum computing available to members of the public, who can access and run experiments on IBM’s quantum processor. IBM scientists have built a quantum processor that users can access through a first-of-a-kind...