AI generates fear – but CEOs are doing it anyway
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Legal sector urged to focus on AI
According to the International Bar Association's (IBA) Future of Legal Services Commission (FLSC), artificial intelligence (AI) is a crucial topic that the legal profession needs to focus on more in the short-term. However, research undertaken by the FLSC reveals that...
PMI sees July decline
After what looks to have been a decent second quarter, at least in terms of quarterly growth momentum, the manufacturing sector had a setback at the start of the third quarter. This is the message from the latest seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers' Index...
Conversational AI capabilities drive contact centre market
Worldwide contact centre (CC) and CC conversational AI and virtual assistant end user spending is projected to total $18,6-billion in 2023, an increase of 16,2% from 2022, says Gartner. "Near-term investment growth rates for CC and CC conversational AI and virtual...
Developers look to OpenUSD in the era of AI and industrial digitalisation
From smart factories to next-generation railway systems, developers and enterprises across the world are racing to fuel industrial digitalisation opportunities at every scale - and vital to this is the open-source Universal Scene Description (USD) framework, or...
Global fintech funding falls … but it’s not all bad news
The first six months of 2023 have proven difficult for the global fintech market with both total funding and the number of deals dropping - from $63,2-billion across 2 885 deals in H2 2022 to $52,4-billion across 2 153 deals in the first half of 2023, according to...
The dangers of collaboration tools exposed
South African businesses are failing to provide dedicated training on collaboration tools even though almost all of them (93%) have experienced a threat via their chosen tools, according to new research from Mimecast exploring the state of the collaboration tools...
These are the drivers for CDP adoption
A new Juniper Research study has identified the two leading markets driving customer data platform (CDP) adoption this year: retail and digital media enterprises. Together, they will account for $1,5-billion of global spend in 2023; exceeding 70% of the global market...
FNB customers continue to embrace PayShap
FNB customers continue to embrace PayShap, a realtime payment solution that facilitates payments of up to R3 000, for low-value payments with 62% of all PayShap payments made by them under R500 - and of these, 27% are below R100, making them completely free. "Even...
Most businesses with AI lead new use cases with it
A massive 55% of organisations that have previously deployed AI always consider AI for every new use case that they are evaluating, according to a new Gartner survey. More than half of organisations (52%) report that risk factors are a critical consideration when...
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‘Tis the season for cybercrime
Consumers planning on purchasing their Christmas gifts online could be at risk of losing between $50 and $ 000 per incident. That's because it's the season when cyber criminals across the world are on the prowl to fill up their own Christmas 'stockings'. And, with the...
When the retail chain is forged
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SA bank adopts Synthesis software platform
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R33m boost for SA job creation, innovation
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What risks do interns pose?
With a saturated job market, and experience being a major employment requirement, more job-seekers are taking on low-paying -- and often unpaid -- internships for short periods to gain on-the-job knowledge to boost their CVs. This arrangement is also greatly...
Travel firms to connect more meaningfully
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Barclays partners with CDB in Africa
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