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Major gaps in local SMB cybersecurity
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All the winners at the 2024 HP Partner Awards
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Supply chain GenAI shows productivity gains at individual level
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January breaks temperature records
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AI expected to speed up financial transactions
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Opinion: Trump’s aid review a win for Africa
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Tariff implications larger than 2018 trade war
Expectations for 2025 were for robust US growth and a fragile recovery in other nations. As US president Donald Trump settles into the White House, his unpredictable policies have the power to turbo-charge or upend these assumptions. Investors should prepare to...
Call for Africa to reshape its economic narrative
The Global Africa Business Initiative (GABI) has issued its Unstoppable Africa 2024 Executive Summary, shedding light on transformative strategies and solutions to reshape Africa’s financial narrative and accelerate economic growth. The report highlights GABI’s call...
Buckle up: 2025 is going to be a rough ride
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Deloitte and VMware collaborate on strategic distributed cloud practice
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