Browsing: Opinion

by Paul Royster Many MySpace users were dismayed to discover earlier this year that the social media platform lost 50…

by Tolu Olarewaju Corruption can have a crippling effect on a country’s economy. This is why African businesses have described…

by Mayank Batavia These days it’s difficult to read about artificial intelligence (AI) without a mention of how China plans to…

by Michael Guihot Australia is among 42 countries that last week signed up to a new set of policy guidelines…

By now everyone who cares knows that Vodacom is not keen on Yolanda Cuba as a successor to the present…

The Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, might have been summing up today’s Cell…

Yolanda Cuba, Chief Officer of Strategy and M&A of Vodacom Group, seems to be on the move again. The former…

It doesn’t make sense for SANTACO to buy shareholding or invest in SA Taxi, which is owned by JSE-listed Transaction…

It’s a pretty momentous occasion for us here. We are turning five, and it’s nice to look back at the…

Nigeria’s government risks damaging its investment climate with it’s Central Bank demanding $8,1 billion (R115 billion) allegedly paid as a…

By Tammy Hodgskiss, University of the Witwatersrand Digital technology has become an integral part of our everyday lives. So it…

by Steve Tzikakis, SAP President EMEA South We all face an exciting – but uncertain – time ahead. The disruption…

Every time a new player comes to South Africa to provide video-on-demand (VoD) services there is great fanfare, but with…

By Martin Walshaw, Senior Systems Engineer at F5 Networks Biometrics are quickly gaining momentum both in the global and local…

By Byron Clatterbuck, CEO, SEACOM Since 2009, the African telecoms industry has come a long way in connecting people and…

by Ben Dickson Early this month, the widely ridiculed juice-squeezing company Juicer, which managed to raise the absurd amount of $120…

By Sergey Bratus, Dartmouth College and Anna Shubina, Dartmouth College It’s troubling to think that at any moment you might open…

By Marwan Elnakat, digital banking solutions director for the CISMEA region at Gemalto With Capitec’s latest trading update making a…

The use of drones or remotely piloted aircraft systems is forecast to grow exponentially. Globally the drone business is proving…

By David Glance, University of Western Australia In response to millions of people fleeing Florida in the face of Hurricane…

by Ben Dickson This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try) to disambiguate the jargon…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly coming of age, as business leaders increasingly grasp the immense potential of “smart” machines and…

The IoT ecosystem is expected to experience the largest growth in the history of humankind. With a current market valuation…

by Ben Dickson Since their first appearance decades ago, chatbots have come a long way thanks to leaps in natural…

By Vino Govender CM (SA) | DFA, Executive: Product Innovation and Marketing The closure of the 159-year-old “Harrods of South…