African startups look to new investors

Kathy Gibson reports from AI Everything and Gitex Kenya in Nairobi – Africa’s exciting and innovative start-ups are attracting interest from investors in the Middle East, Europe and Asia. Investors from these regions are arguably more aligned to the continent’s...

Pilot to production: the challenge of African developers

Kathy Gibson reports from the AI Everything Summit in Nairobi – Africa has no shortage of ideas, use cases and innovation when it comes to developing AI applications. But having a great idea, or an elegant algorithm, doesn’t necessarily translate into a bankable...

As economies shift, Africa urged to follow the money

Kathy Gibson reports from the AI Everything Summit in Nairobi – Africa is enjoying a renaissance as it embraces technology and artificial intelligence (AI) to drive its future growth. But there is a danger that the continent will remain a mere consumer of the...

SA holds its own as global AI adoption accelerates

Worldwide adoption of artificial intelligence continued to rise in the first quarter of 2026, according to Microsoft’s Global AI Diffusion Q1 2026 Trends and Insights report from its AI Economy Institute. During the quarter, AI usage increased by 1,5 percentage points...

Global IT spend set for 9,8% growth in 2025

Worldwide IT spending is expected to total $5,61-trillion in 2025, an increase of 9,8% from 2024, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. “While budgets for CIOs are increasing, a significant portion will merely offset price increases within their recurrent...

Stargate puts down $100bn for AI infrastructure

US president Donald Trump has announced a new joint venture, Stargate, that will immediately unlock $100-billion in infrastructure projects to power artificial intelligence (AI). The initial equity funders in Stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX. SoftBank...

Google Cloud, Nvidia increase collaboration

As generative AI and large language models (LLMs) continue to drive innovations, compute requirements for training and inference have grown at an astonishing pace. To meet that need, Google Cloud today announced the general availability of its new A3 instances,...

Webb reveals new structures within iconic supernova

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has begun the study of one of the most renowned supernovae, SN 1987A (Supernova 1987A). Located 168 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, SN 1987A has been a target of intense observations at wavelengths ranging from...

Customer service, support set for transformation

Generative AI, digital customer service, and conversational user interfaces (CUIs) will transform customer service and support by 2028, according to Gartner. "The common theme of these three technologies are their ability to streamline the customer journey and enable...

WLAN market continues to boom

According to a report from Dell'Oro Group, H3C was the first major manufacturer to recognise revenues for commercially available, enterprise-class WiFi 7 Access Points (APs) as the overall Wireless LAN market grew to nearly $3-billion during the second quarter of...

Healthy growth forecast for smart home appliances

The global smart home appliances market size is expected to reach $58,51-billion by 2030 and will expand further at a CAGR of 9,2% from 2023 to 2030, according to a new report by Grand View Research. The market growth is largely driven by factors such as growing...

ChatGPT dominates LLM mentions on social media

In the dynamic landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs), OpenAI's ChatGPT has emerged as the frontrunner with an impressive 89,9% share of voice on platforms like Twitter and Reddit among the top seven LLMs so far in 2023, reveals...

Software engineering leaders require oversight of generative AI

By 2025, more than half of all software engineering leader role descriptions will explicitly require oversight of generative artificial intelligence (AI), says Gartner. "Outside of generative AI's impact on technology implementation, it also changes the managerial...

PMI ticks up in August

The seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) improved somewhat in August, rising by 2.4 points to 49.7 - just below the key 50-point mark. The increase in the headline PMI was driven by the business activity index, which jumped by almost 12 points to...

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CrashDetech wins for innovation

CrashDetech, a mobile app which can auto-detect a medical emergency in real-time has been named the Most Innovative Mobile Application- South Africa at the International Finance Awards announced this week. The award recognises contributions and work in the field of...

Harnessing AI to transform customer experience in telecoms

Telecommunications operators are generally very large enterprises, serving millions of retail consumers and thousands of enterprise / corporate clients. The sheer size of the customer base can make it very difficult to provide exceptional customer experiences for...

Cell C doubles the data on its WhatsApp bundle

Cell C's newest WhatsApp bundles now also include access to Facebook. Based on the original WhatsApp bundle, Cell C's three new bundles in the ShoutOut range will also include access to Facebook - doubling the number of platforms that customers can use these bundles...

Why cloud is key to unlocking rail industry growth

Organisations from across a range of sectors are being disrupted by technology adoption, and the railways are no different. By Norman Frisch, business development: transport solutions at Huawei Enterprise Harnessing the power of cloud computing, coupled with the shift...

Finding the imposters among us

The cybersecurity industry's approach to protecting our data simply isn't working anymore. It was built for the past. It was about outside threats, hackers finding their way inside, building bigger and more audacious security walls to befuddle the bad guys and protect...

CA Technologies sponsors SA student in global initiative

CA Technologies is supporting the Young Global Pioneers (YGP) Talent Network, which includes sponsoring a South African student on a three-week intensive learning program to help nurture the next generation of responsible and global-minded leaders. Thabang Maake, a...

#BRICS: Future is bright for SA’s SMEs

The 10th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg this week highlights the growing opportunities for South Africa's small and medium businesses to export their goods and services to emerging market peers such as Brazil, Russia, India and China. By Pieter Bensch, executive...

Security at the heart of successful transformation

Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town – Every organisation has security at top of mind, and CIOs are grappling with the challenge of implementing digital transformation while keeping it secure. Hein Kern, who looks after the RSA business in South...

Services, attach add value to the tech

Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town – Technology is all very well, but means very little without pre-sales, deployment and after-sales services. Dell EMC partners are able to offer these services to their customers, either through their own...

Benefits to partnering with Dell EMC

Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town – Dell EMC is committed to helping partners to be successful. “Simple, predictable, profitable is the mantra for our partner programme – but it is something we really mean,” says Dell EMC channel executive David...

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