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...

Ford’s automated valet makes parking a breeze

The search for a parking space can be a daunting endeavour, and when a space is found, it might be a tight squeeze to get the vehicle in. The solution? Leave that work to the vehicle. As part of a German Association of the Automobile Industry collaboration, Ford has...

Flaws identified in Draft Critical Skills list

The Draft Critical Skills list, published in February this year, will be beset by the old problems as well as some new ones. This is according to Global Migration Group CEO Leon Isaacson who, as chairman of the immigration practitioner’s professional forum in 2010,...

Search for a Zika cure is on …

IBM's World Community Grid and scientists are launching an international study to identify drug candidates to cure Zika, a fast-spreading virus that the World Health Organization has declared a global public health emergency. IBM and a global team of scientists are...

Orange signs multi-site deal with AngloGold Ashanti

Orange Business Services has extended and expanded its network contract with AngloGold Ashanti, delivering a range of network services across 44 sites in Africa, America and Australia to improve collaboration and securely manage Internet and cloud growth....

MTN aims for major turnaround

MTN SA is working on an aggressive turnaround strategy that involves investment in people, processes and technology. Mteto Nyati, CEO of MTN SA, says the company has made some firm commitments: to transform customer experience, return to growth and overhaul people...

Is SA heading for stagflation?

Weak preliminary indicators, which include manufacturing production, mining output, and retail trade sales, strongly suggest that South Africa's GDP growth rate could record a quarter-on-quarter annualised contraction during the first quarter. Thea Fourie, senior...

SA climbs the Global Threat Index

South Africa ranked 26th on Check Point Software Technologies' global risk ranking Threat Index for Q1 2016. At the end of the first quarter of 2016, South Africa climbed the list of most attacked countries with a ranking change of 26 places from the end of 2015, in...

Beware of fake Olympic ticket scams

Kaspersky Lab experts found the first spam emails mentioning the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in early 2015, a year before the event is set to take place. The majority of spam emails are in English, but some are also in Portuguese because of the location of this...

Hello Paisa is Africa’s top fintech startup

Low cost international money transfer company Hello Paisa was named the number one fintech company in Africa, at the SWIFT African Regional Conference. Hello Paisa will now form part of a delegation along with two other finalists to Sibos, SWIFT's annual global...

Absa covers app users’ mobile costs

Absa has become the first South African bank to offer reverse billing across all four major mobile networks, so customers will be able to use its app even if they don't have mobile data. "The agreement that Absa has signed with Cell C, MTN, Telkom and Vodacom allows...

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