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...

Investment returning to global tourism sector

Investment in the global tourism cluster has started to bounce back from the lows it touched during the pandemic off the back of the steady recovery of international tourist arrivals, according to a new report jointly produced by UNWTO and fDi (foreign direct...

AI brings silicon and software together in the siliconomy

Intel has unveiled an array of technologies aimed at bringing artificial intelligence (AI) everywhere and making it more accessible across all workloads, from client and edge to network and cloud. “AI represents a generational shift, giving rise to a new era of global...

Ransomware continues to evolve, targets more victims

Check Point Research’s Global Threat Index for June 2020 shows that the Phorpiex botnet has been delivering the Avaddon ransomware, a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) variant that emerged in early June, via malspam campaigns. This has led to it jumping 13 places to...

SA start-up competes in online meeting space

In the past three months, South African startup room.sh has emerged into the video conferencing tech space, growing to more than 100 000 video-calls a month. In 2018 the founding team received investment from local VC’s Knife Capital as SkillUp Tutors with the...

Beware URLs that redirect users to blacklisted pages

Kaspersky researchers have uncovered more than a thousand inactive domains that, when visited, redirect the visitors to unwanted URLs as a way to turn a profit. Many of these second-stage pages were detected as malicious. When companies stop paying for their domain,...

What will SA’s energy utilities of the future look like?

Over the lockdown period, utilities have stepped up – keeping hospitals running and laptops charged, writes Cameron Tandy, MD Accenture Resources in Africa. Energy has not been top of mind for consumers during the current pandemic, but in this new operating...

Cash makes a comeback during lockdown

A detailed look into South Africans transaction habits from cash and card spend over the lockdown period has revealed that the value of ATM withdrawals is on the rise while credit cards are being stored away. "As a service to the South African economy and decision...

WHO calls for Africa to have equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines

The World Health Organisation (WHO) in Africa joined immunisation experts in urging the international community and countries in Africa to take concrete actions to ensure equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines, as researchers around the world race to find effective...

Led by notebooks, PC shipments come back strongly

Worldwide, PC shipments have recovered and are once again in positive territory. Three global research houses released their latest global PC market figures yesterday, detailing growth rates from 2% to 11% depending on research criteria. According to Gartner,...

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