PMI improves, but recovery is uneven
The seasonally adjusted Absa PMI increased by 0.9 points to 49.6 in October, from a revised 48.7 in September, marking a second consecutive monthly improvement. Encouragingly, all five components of the headline index recorded gains during the month. However, the PMI...
Bold bets needed to advance Africa’s technology ecosystem
African tech leaders have called for greater investment in the infrastructure, capital and leadership needed to build technology companies that can compete globally and sustain innovation. This year’s Moonshot by TechCabal conference, under the theme “Courage and...
Cassava to resell Claude on Amazon Bedrock
Cassava Technologies has been authorised to resell access to Anthropic’s Claude models through Amazon Bedrock. Claude is Anthropic’s state-of-the-art large language model, offering features like advanced reasoning, vision analysis, code generation, and multilingual...
Zoho Analytics platform update turns BI agents into AI agents
Zoho has announced a major update to Zoho Analytics, its business intelligence and analytics platform, introducing Agentic Analytics capabilities that connect business data, organisational context, insights and action. The enhanced platform provides a shared...
Core authorised to distribute Bose
Bose has appointed Core as the authorised distributor for Bose consumer products in South Africa. Core will oversee distribution and market expansion for Bose in South Africa through its network of retail and reseller partners, enhanced in-store and digital commerce...
Vertiv simplifies high-density AI infrastructure
Vertiv Holdings has introduced the Vertiv SmartIT solution, a pre-engineered architecture designed to simplify high-density AI deployments for enterprises, research institutions and colocation providers across existing facilities and new data centres. Previously...
Cloudera Blueprints bring Nvidia Agent Toolkit to enterprise data anywhere
Cloudera has launched Cloudera Blueprints, a new portfolio of ready-to-deploy AI solutions designed to help enterprises accelerate the development and deployment of AI applications using their own data. Building on its existing Accelerators for ML Projects (AMPs), the...
Check Point secures AI-scale traffic
Check Point Software Technologies has announced the next-generation Maestro Hyperscale Orchestrator (MHO) 200, helping neoclouds, telcos, governments and enterprises inspect fast-growing, largely encrypted AI traffic and other communications in the data center without...
Octotel bridges gap between shared and dedicated fibre
Western Cape-based fibre network operator (FNO) Octotel has launched Octotel Business, a new B2B brand bringing its existing business connectivity services together under one proposition. The offering introduces Business Broadband, a new service for companies whose...
Hayo expands East African footprint
Hayo has expanded its presence in East Africa with operations in Tanzania, helping to design, build and run the critical digital infrastructure that economies and communities depend on. The expansion into Tanzania is part of hayo’s continued investment in local...
FBI says North Korea behind Binance hack
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released information advising the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was responsible for the theft of more than $6-billion in virtual assets from cryptocurrency exchange Binance, on or about October 29,...
Ask the hard questions about AI before you sign up
Kathy Gibson reports – There is no doubt that AI is here to stay, and that organisations around the world are using it to improve their processes and competitiveness. But there is an awful lot that you won’t get told about actually implementing AI before you sign up,...