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Clothing retailers sell their shoppers more than jeans and sweaters. Major apparel companies also sell credit, often with very high…

When astronomers dream of their ideal telescopes, it’s not that different to what people want from their TVs and computer…

The power of big data and predictive analytics has captured the world’s imagination and added urgency to the rush towards…

The past few years have sparked significant change in society and the global (and local) economy. Most businesses, where possible,…

As long as cash still dominates the payments landscape in Africa, it remains a stumbling block to much-needed technological progress…

The discipline of physical anthropology has a dark, often fraught past. It was misused to justify slavery and even genocide.…

Primarily driven by increased access to fibre-based high-speed internet connectivity, there has been a growing shift by the providers of…

Businesses have come a long way in appreciating the power of predictive analytics to pick up anomalies or trends that…

The mere act of using your phone or computer to order things that you need, which then show up at…

Heralded as the next frontier of the Internet, the metaverse is the vision of a persistent 3D virtual world where…

Small businesses start with an exciting idea – but they don’t fail because of that idea. All too often,…

Adri Führi, Group CFO at Fintech specialist e4, says that while diversity is a proven component of robust leadership and strategic commercial…

Gender equality in the workplace has made strides in recent years, but there is still a long way to go…

Today, the world commemorates International Women’s Day. Below is a Q&A content piece where Cecelia Regolo shares her personal insights…

The conversation about gender equality has been pushed to the forefront in recent years, sparking positive changes across multiple industries…

The fourth industrial revolution (4IR) is here, whether we like it or not, and with it will come increasing automation,…

Most enterprises know that cyberattacks in the information security realm are continuously growing in sophistication, severity and number. However, up…

At the Huawei Day0 Forum held the day before MWC22 Barcelona, Ryan Ding, Huawei’s Executive Director and President of the…

The COVID-19 pandemic has taught the world many things, not least of which is the fact that many of our…

Today more than half of the world’s population is connected to the internet. In Africa, there are over 590 million…

The EU’s Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) – introduced along with its more famous cousin MiFID II in 2014 –…

The system is down. It’s a phrase that’s so common in the South African lexicon that it tends to elicit…

Email is dead. If I’d believed that phrase any of the countless times I’ve heard it since 2010, I probably…

Have you looked at the international rankings of the world’s happiest countries lately? Measuring a country’s subjective levels of happiness…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced the first six African countries that will receive technology to produce messenger RNA…