As African CEOs embrace AI, ROI is still elusive

By Kathy Gibson - African companies are in the middle of learning and adopting artificial intelligence (AI), and adapting to the changes it brings. But they are also looking beyond adoption at how to measure value from their AI investments, says Ladi Asuni, partner...

Africa moves from AI ambition to action

AI has moved from potential to proven economic value and while ambition setting is near universal across economies, execution speed is the differentiator, according to Boston Consulting Group’s The AI Maturity Matrix 2026: AI Is Transforming How Economies Develop and...

The shocking reality facing jobseekers

Of the 867 706 people who registered looking for entry-level work in retail, restaurants and quick-service outlets over a 13-month period, just 6 566 were appointed - approximately one in every 132 – and between them, they sent nearly five million applications. The...

Spatial data maps where Super El Niño will hit SA hardest

The South African Weather Service gave the clearest sign yet on 1 September: this El Niño is on course to become the strongest event in living memory, with sea surface temperatures already tracking past 3°C above normal. A national outlook can't say which town or...

The most active malware in November

Check Point Software Technologies Ltdhas published its Global Threat Index for November 2023. Last month, researchers discovered a new AsyncRAT campaign where malicious HTML files were used to spread the covert malware. Meanwhile, JavaScript downloader, FakeUpdates,...

GenAI set to disrupt travel industry

With the arrival of generative AI in 2023, the technology has surged to the top of airport and airline agendas, with 97% of airlines planning a program to develop the technology. This has taken the limelight away from Metaverse, which was the focus for 2022....

SA users confident they’ve avoided Sunburst, SuperNova hacks

South African users of the software at the centre of a supply chain hack on US government departments appear to be unaffected by the issue, and most have already applied the fixes that will prevent any potential problems. That's the word from Glenn Lazarus, CEO of...

Software updates cut the cost of data breaches

Enterprises in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) region with outdated technology can lose 16% more money when they suffer a data breach compared to those who update everything in a timely manner. According to a recent Kaspersky report "How businesses can...

People find new ways to adapt in Covid times

2020 has been a year no one saw coming. Covid-19 has wrought economic, political and emotional chaos, testing the limits of individuals, families, healthcare systems and whole sectors of societies. Yet, as the ninth annual Looking Further with Ford Trends Report*...

Tech stocks the winners in otherwise bleak 2020

Despite the unprecedented challenges that rocked the year 2020, the S&P 500 closed with an 18,4% gain on a total return basis. According to the research data analyzed and published by Comprar Acciones. Following a 12,5% decline in March 2020, the index recovered...

And the top malware threat in December was …

The Emotet trojan has returned to first place in Check Point Research's latest Global Three Index for December 2020, impacting 7% of organisations globall. This follows a spam campaign which targeted more than 100 000 users per day during the holiday season. In...

How events in the Capitol affect the US economy

Democrats have completed a sweep of Congress following the double victory in the state of Georgia's run-off election. Keith Wade, Schroders' chief economist, discusses what this means for the US economy in the near-term. The disturbing scenes of protestors storming...

MacBook hit 15,5m shipments in 2020

The global demand for PCs and laptops increased significantly in 2020, with millions of people working from home and practicing distance learning amid the Covid-19 lockdown. As one of the leading brands on the market, Apple MacBook has witnessed a significant jump in...

Water management vital to the success of smart cities

Water is the elephant in the room, with cities increasingly and massively dependent on water technology as sea levels rise and for other reasons. The IDTechEx report, "Smart Cities Market 2021-2041: Energy, Food, Water, Materials, Transportation Forecasts", points out...

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