Given likely demographic trends this century – notably the rapid population growth in Africa and the Middle East – the rise of the robots is likely to be matched by a march of the migrants.
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After years of ploughing billions into shifting from serving customers in branches to mobile apps and instant payments, lenders are often in the dark about the difference their spending is making to operating profit.
Less than a month into 2020, retrenchments, the trimming of workforces and restructuring talks are dominating the news.
Google is upending the advertising world with its decision to “render obsolete” a key tool used by marketers for years to track would-be customers as they move around the Web.
Eskom has admitted it has a solution to its highly unreliable ageing fleet of coal power stations. This time, however, the plan is not the clichéd definition of insanity (which seems to have been the plan over much of the last decade).
About 81.3% of those who wrote matric in 2019 passed. What the country is not hearing about from the minister of basic education, Angie Motshekga, is the drop in performance in mathematics.
The skills crisis in the cybersecurity field in South Africa is so severe that the major banks have reached a “gentleman’s agreement” not to poach each other’s staff for fear of exacerbating the situation.
The largest decline in reliable electricity supply in recent years occurred in South Africa, but much of the rest of the continent is in far worse shape as electrification projects have stalled.
How Huawei survived the US blacklisting could prove a case study in unintended consequences and a vast shift underway in global IT production.
Internet-enabled industry disruption defined business strategy in the 2010s, but as 2020 begins, that era appears to be winding down.