NFT market continues losing momentum

Since reaching a peak in September 2021, global NFT sales have been consistently falling as collectors spend less and less money on digital artwork. Although revenues of NFT marketplaces are still expected to see double-digit growth, rising by 41% year-over-year to...
SA stands out as a global air pollution hotspot

SA stands out as a global air pollution hotspot

Egypt, Nigeria, and South Africa have emerged as Africa’s most polluted countries in terms of air pollution disease burden, with profound health consequences for Africa’s people and exacerbated impacts on climate change, a report prepared by Greenpeace...

SIU concludes Treasury’s Oracle contract was irregular

Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) has given National Treasury three weeks to come up with a way forward after the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) concluded that an almost R1-billion contract with Oracle was irregular. The integrated...

Increase in demand for APIs will come from AI

More than 30% of the increase in demand for application programming interfaces (APIs) will come from AI and tools using large language models (LLMs) by 2026, says Gartner. “With technology service providers (TSPs) leading the charge in GenAI adoption, the...

AI companies dominate the unicorn club

Last year, fewer than 100 companies joined the global unicorn club – the lowest number since 2017 and a steep drop compared to 2022 and 2023, which saw hundreds of private startups valued at $1-billion or more. Still, in a year that showed becoming a unicorn is...

Tech industry most geopoliticised in the world

The global supply chains organised to optimise profit and speed – which shaped international trade and delivered benefits to both producers and consumers for two decades under globalisation – have now been twisted out of shape, with the global economy...