AI spend grows 47% – and more is expected

Worldwide spending on AI is forecast to total $2,59-trillion in 2026 - a 47% increase year-over-year - according to Gartner. “Through the next several years, the need for capacity will make AI infrastructure - including AI-optimised IaaS, AI-optimised servers, AI...

How to raise funds, then scale your African start-up

Kathy Gibson reports from Everything AI and Gitex Kenya in Nairobi – For many African start-ups, their biggest challenge is not coming up with solutions or creating systems that work – it is in scaling them effectively. Once the excitement of the initial idea and...

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...

Slower top line growth, talent issues worry CFOs

Chief financial officers (CFOs) anticipate slower top line growth and talent issues will be the biggest challenges for enterprise performance in 2025, according to December survey by Gartner. The poll of 250 CFOs and finance leaders, taken during The Top Priorities...

Users came under sustained attack in 2024

Kaspersky’s detection systems discovered an average of 467 000 malicious files per day in 2024, marking a 14% increase compared to the previous year. Certain types of threats saw significant growth with experts reporting a 33% surge in Trojan detections compared to...

Call for generative AI guardrails, responsible design

Researchers are cautiously optimistic about where generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) will lead humanity, but "we must develop more guardrails". This is according to Pascale Fung, chair professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering of Hong...

Healthy growth for unified communication

Worldwide revenues in the Unified Communications & Collaboration (UC&C) market grew 7,2% year over year to $15,4-billion in the first quarter of 2023 (1Q23), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Unified Communications and...

Campus NaaS revenues set for quick growth

Campus network as a service (NaaS) revenues will grow quickly over the next five years, eclipsing the growth rate of the public cloud-managed LAN market. "Campus NaaS is an emerging market and vendors are approaching it from different angles," says Siân Morgan,...

Educational robot market to hit $5,55bn by 2030

The global educational robot market size is expected to reach $5,55-billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 24,8% from 2023 to 2030, according to a new study by Grand View Research. The growth in the market can be attributed to the increasing preference for interactive...

European IoT spending to approach $227bn in 2023

European organisations are expected to spend around $227-billion on Internet of Things (IoT) technology in 2023, according to the Worldwide Internet of Things Spending Guide published by International Data Corporation (IDC). IoT-related spending is expected to...

LockBit expands its reach, targets macOS

LockBit, one of the world's most prolific ransomware groups, has upgraded its operations with enhanced multiplatform functionality, according to cybersecurity experts at Kaspersky. LockBit gained notoriety for its relentless targeting of businesses globally, leaving a...

Innovation, entrepreneurship, global co-operation key to spur growth

The world faces low growth, high costs of living, increasing geopolitical fragmentation, widening inequality and the growing effects of the climate and nature crises, as well as the continuing repercussions of the pandemic on industry, society and trust. These...

BMW to spend R4,2bn on Rosslyn Plant electrification

BMW Group South Africa has announced a R4,2-billion investment in the electrification of its Rosslyn Plant. From 2024, BMW Group Plant Rosslyn will produce the BMW X3 as a plug-in hybrid to export it to the world. With this investment in electrification and...

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Software defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) are accelerating in the market. "Businesses are recognising the tangible benefits SD-WANs offer -- from cost to speed to ease of control and agility. An issue businesses are however still grappling with is how to evaluate...

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12 graduates from Cell C Girl Child Bursary Fund

The Cell C Girl Child Bursary Fund, a financial resource that invests in the tertiary education of disadvantaged young women, has produced 12 female graduates over the past two years and every one of them is now successfully employed. The young women have qualified in...

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Open banking’s relevance to SA

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Sticki improves user adoption

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Cartrack grows global subscribers

Cartrack has announced growth of more than 85 000 subscribers since 1 September 2017 to more than 750 000 subscribers globally, at a year-on-year subscriber growth to date of about 25%. Cartrack's Global CEO, Zak Calisto, attributes this growth to Cartrack's...

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One challenge of comprehensive, unified security is the complexity of it, Carro Ford writes on the Xerox blog. Herding cats comes to mind. There are all those endpoints -- multifunction printers (MFPs), mobile and networked devices, documents, and the users...

Decision Inc transforms NPO systems

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