Google to train 1m Africans in digital skills

Google has announced a commitment to train 1-million young Africans in digital skills in the next year. In realising this commitment, Google is supporting its partner Livity Africa to run two training programmes: “Digify Bytes” to give digital skills to young people...

DFA buys into FTTH business SADV

Open-access fibre infrastructure provider DFA has acquired a significant minority stake in SA Digital Villages (SADV), which operates in the FTTH market segment. The transaction will see SADV reposition itself as a wholesale open access FTTH service provider in the...
How to remain digitally relevant

How to remain digitally relevant

By 2025, jobs which were common place in 2015 will no longer exist – and students graduating in 2016 will have obsolete qualifications for which there will no longer be a profession. This is according to Wayne Houghton, director of growth implementation solutions at...

Zuckerberg outlines Facebook’s strategy

Automated bots are set to become more of a feature on Facebook, interacting with users. This was one of the announcements that CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced at the company’s F8 2016 conference yesterday, as he outlined Facebook’s technology plans for the next 10...

Strijdom Park to get high-speed fibre

BitCo, a Tier 1 Internet and telephony service provider, will be installing a fibre network to service business in the Strijdom Park area near Randburg. Cable infrastructure specialist Global Platinum Solutions (GPS) was commissioned to lay the fibre optic network....

Where are the hotspots for foreign investment?

While the global economy may be stuck in low gear for another year, analysis released today points to 15 investment hotspots in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region that should offer some good news to businesses. IHS announced the findings from its study...