CEOs will expect chief information officers to grow out of being mere custodians of technology and to actively wield tech to drive revenue instead. This will include immersing themselves into the field of customer experience
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If you think that Faith Muthambi is the first politician to wreck the media party, then you simply aren’t paying attention. Take “Poison” Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri. Following a career of unmitigated failure, she was elevated to the post of minsiter of communications
Imagine a company with no managers and no employees. Imagine that said company operates as a democracy, and that its shareholders vote electronically on every aspect of its operations. Sounds crazy, right? Except that such a company
News that Transaction Capital is actively working to consolidate and formalise the meter-cab industry, via Zebra Cabs, should be celebrated by every single one of us who use (or have used) Uber. Competing against Uber is going to need very deep pockets
PayPal is the latest company to join a long list to ditch support for the “fringe” phone operating systems: Microsoft’s Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Amazon’s Fire OS. This decision comes on the heels of Microsoft’s announcement of getting rid of
The ongoing exposé of the Panama Papers is the most significant leak of compromising data since Edward Snowden’s revelations about America’s National Security Agency. What few people realise is the vital role played by African journalists
Richard Garriott, US entrepreneur, developer of Ultima, astronaut and all-round geek idol, knows all about geek culture. Raised in a town boasting several astronauts, including his father, he was encouraged to follow his passions in science
In the past few years, unmanned flying machines, variously described as remotely piloted air systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned aerial systems, or more commonly known as “drones”, have been mainly used in targeted
It’s the dream of anyone who has travelled to a foreign country: a device that instantly translates a local’s speech for you while simultaneously translating your own words for them. A new gadget, named the Pilot, claims to do just that
As one of the many perks of the oh-so-hard life of a technology journalist, I was flown to Las Vegas as a guest of EMC for its annual EMC World event earlier this month. Like all such events, this was a chance for the company to trumpet its