First pan-African quantum challenge launched
The Africa Quantum Consortium (AQC) has launched Hack the Horizon: the Pan-African Quantum Challenge, an initiative designed to assemble and activate the continent’s sovereign quantum ecosystem. Registration for the continent-wide challenge, which unites Africa’s top...
SA’s business liquidations skyrocket
South Africa’s corporate sector is under siege with the latest report from Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) revealing that 145 businesses were liquidated in September - pushing the 2025 year-to-date total to 1 180 closures. This marks a 23,9% spike compared to...
Digital payments continue steep growth trajectory
The global digital payment market size is anticipated to reach $361,3-billion by 2030, expanding at a CAGR of 21,4% from 2025 to 2030, according to a new report published by Grand View Research. The market’s growth can be attributed to the increasing number of...
NASA engineering sparks battery innovation
Battery technology that has powered the International Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope, and numerous satellites is now storing energy on Earth, enabling intermittent renewable energy sources to provide steady power. These extremely durable batteries were made...
Oracle Cloud rolls out Nvidia Blackwell GPUs
Oracle has optimised its first wave of liquid-cooled Nvidia GB200 NVL72 racks in its data centres. Thousands of Nvidia Blackwell GPUs are now being deployed and ready for customer use on Nvidia DGX Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to develop and run...
Intel receives motion picture award
Later today (29 April 2025), Intel’s Open Image Denoise will be awarded a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Intel Open Image Denoise is an open source library that provides a high-performance, high-quality AI-based...
Secure enterprise browsers to the fore
By 2028, 25% of organisations will augment existing secure remote access and endpoint security tools by deploying at least one secure enterprise browser (SEB) technology to address specific gaps, according to Gartner. Threat actors frequently target employees with...
Second quarter of growth for hardcopy peripherals
In the fourth quarter of 2024, the global Hardcopy Peripherals (HCP) market experienced a 3,1% year-over-year (YoY) growth, with nearly 22-million units shipped. This marks the second consecutive quarter of positive YoY growth, as reported by the IDC Worldwide...
Power key to data centre growth
The global data centre power market size is anticipated to reach $42,35-billion by 2030, according to a new report by Grand View Research. The market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 13,2% from 2025 to 2030. The factor driving the market growth is the shift in focus...
Innovation in logistics opens up regional opportunities
As trade corridors expand and the demand for sustainable supply chain solutions grows, transformative trends in infrastructure, trade integration, and digital innovation are driving southern Africa’s logistics landscape. This is according to a Reload Logistics...
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Huawei targets SMEs with new Commercial Division
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SAP launches SAP Build, partners with Coursera
SAP has launched new offering to drive the next wave of business transformation by harnessing business users' expertise. SAP Build is a low-code solution that puts SAP's world-class enterprise technology in the hands of business users, giving them direct, secure...
Corruption the most common form of fraud in Africa
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Calls for climate justice for Africa
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NEC XON adds East Africa team
To improve responsiveness to local customers with faster, locally astute decisions in East Africa (EA), NEC XON has appointed a regional management team (RMT). "Traditional corporate decision-making structures aren't necessarily as aware of the regional market as...
New chairman for IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa
IBM has announced that Ana Paula Assis, GM of IBM Europe, Middle East & Africa will take on the expanded role of chairman: Europe, Middle East & Africa, succeeding Martin Jetter, who is retiring from IBM at the end of 2022 after 36 years of service to the...
Upskilling, reskilling helps overcome data science skills shortage
Across the world, there is a growing shortage of data science skills in businesses. According to the 2020 World Economic Forum: "As jobs are transformed by the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we need to reskill more than 1 billion people worldwide by...
Robotic coding software for schools launched in SA
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