Turn vision into reality with the right AI strategy

Kathy Gibson reports from Dell Technologies Forum in Johannesburg - Today's leaders aren't asking whether to adopt AI, they're asking how to turn it into outcomes the business can see. And South African companies can no longer afford to take a wait-and-see attitude to...

Gloomy outlook for global economies as geopolitical tensions worsen

Coface’s latest risk review, Rates Against the Machine, has confirmed what the world dreaded just a few months ago has come to pass – rather than improve, the geopolitical situation has deteriorated once again. This, Coface says, puts upward pressure on commodity...

Banks are still missing the links between fraud and money laundering

Financial institutions are increasingly integrating their fraud and anti-money laundering (AML) systems, but intelligence and governance gaps remain. New fraud and AML convergence research from Datos Insights, commissioned by data and AI leader SAS, finds 86% report...

How can SA plug the ICT skills gap?

Kathy Gibson reports from the IITPSA Workforce Conference – While South Africa records the highest unemployment rate in the world, there is still a dire shortage of critical IT skills. Presenting the IITPSA IT Skills Survey, Lehlohonolo  Mokenela, MD of Africa...

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...

MPC preview: interest rates continuing lower

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meets again on May 17-19 to discuss interest rates and other monetary matters. Lullu Krugel, chief economist for PwC Strategy& Africa and Dr Christie Viljoen, PwC Strategy& economist,...

Plan to centralise laptop purchases for university, TVET students

Government aims to centralise laptop purchasing for higher education as learning increasingly moves online. This is the word from higher education minister Blade Minister, who says all tertiary students funded by the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) for...

New directors, chairman-designate for Net1

Net1 has appointed three veteran business leaders as independent non-executive directors. Jabu Mabuza and Ali Mazanderani will join the board today (15 May), and Antony Ball will join on 21 May. Jabu Mabuza, formerly the chief executive officer of Tsogo Sun Holdings...

Spoofed visa application hits diplomatic entities

In November 2019, Kaspersky technologies revealed new malware with a focus on diplomatic bodies in Europe, with the initial dropper spread as a spoofed visa application. Further analysis has indicated that this spyware uses the same code base as the infamous COMPFun....

Taiwan chipmaker to open US plant

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing will build a chip factory in the US. The new factory will most likely produce chips for smartphones and similar devices. The factory, which will be built in Arizona, will employ about 1 600 people directly. It should be operational...

Smartphone sales relatively strong, despite lockdowns

Smartphone shipments across EMEA dropped by 8% year-on-year in the first quarter as countries across the region began to respond to the spread of coronavirus and lock down local economies. In total, companies shipped 76,9-million smartphones in 1Q20. "Considering the...

Cloud the bright spot in IT outlook

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3,4-trillion in 2020, a decline of 8% from 2019, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. The coronavirus pandemic and effects of the global economic recession are causing CIOs to prioritise spending on technology and...

Paying ransomware doubles the cost of recovery

Paying cybercriminals to restore data encrypted during a ransomware attack is not an easy and inexpensive path to recovery. In fact, the total cost of recovery almost doubles when organizations pay a ransom, according to global survey from Sophos, "The State of...

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