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...

What are the most common business email compromise schemes?

Business e-mail compromise attacks are on the increase. Between May and July 2021, Kaspersky products prevented more than 9 500 BEC attacks globally, including those against businesses in air transportation, industry, retail, IT and delivery. Such attacks demand...

Crypto ransom payments hit $81,6m so far in 2021

Over the last few years, ransomware attacks have taken hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrencies to victims worldwide. In 2020 alone, as the record year for crypto ransomware attacks, the total value of loss hit more than $400-million, showing a...

SA payments firm signs up with Xero

Yoco, a South African payments company that officially launched in  October 2015, has announced its integration with Xero, a New Zealand-based cloud accounting software for SMEs. Yoco's point-of-sale app and card readers enable SMEs in South Africa to accept card...

Big data analytics revenues set to surge

According to the new Worldwide Semiannual Big Data and Analytics Spending Guide from International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide revenues for big data and business analytics will grow from nearly $122-billion in 2015 to more than $187-billion in 2019, an increase...

Cell C offers WiFi Calling on iPhone

iPhone customers on Cell C can now initiate calls over WiFi using their own phone number even when a celluar signal is not available. Wi-Fi Calling is available on the iPhone 5C, 5S, 6, 6 Plus, 6S, 6S Plus and 5SE, using iOS 9.3.2. With Cell C's WiFi Calling,...

Governments should embrace 3rd Platform

The integration of 3rd Platform technologies are initiating a major change in the way that technology implements business modernisation. The new IDC MarketScape, Western European Government System Integrators 2016 Vendor Assessment, exclusively examines Western...

Standard Bank customers ‘not affected’

As news broke globally that South Africa's Standard Bank had confirmed it may have lost up to R300-million ($19-million) in a "sophisticated, coordinated fraud incident" which allegedly involved around 100 people drawing money from ATMs and other facilities in Japan,...

What you need to know before signing up FTTH

Fibre to the home (FTTH) is a trending buzzword in South Africa at the moment. Affluent suburbs are a hive of activity as trenches are dug and fibre laid, with the goal of delivering high speed connectivity to a person's doorstep, writes Calvin Collett, CEO of...

Stay skeptical of Blockchain

While Blockchain technology is certainly worth investigating, CIOs should not be fooled into thinking it is the panacea for all the potential use cases currently under discussion. In fact, Forrester principal analyst Martha Bennett is advising a healthy dose of...

Digital recruitment is on the rise

Paper-based CVs are losing prominence as the tendency to recruit via social media becomes more prevalent in South Africa. Pierre Aurel, strategic product manager at electronic technology solutions and services provider e4 Strategic, says that the rise of digital...

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