Graduate unemployment in South Africa has risen to 12.2%. The problem is a skills mismatch, not qualifications.
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South Africa’s top universities have stopped policing AI and started redesigning how they teach, assess and certify.
BlackBerry lost while it was winning. South Africa’s would-be IoT platforms should heed the warning.
South Africa’s private sector returned to marginal growth in June, but business optimism sank to a five-year low.
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Meta Platforms’ revenue is taking a multibillion-dollar hit because it can’t gather as much data on iPhone users. The company spent last year attacking Apple for the change; now it’s publicly calling out Google, too.
Samsung has decided to ditch its own Exynos silicon in this year’s Galaxy S22 models sold in South Africa in favour of Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip.
Google will land its high-capacity Equiano submarine cable system in Namibia in May and in South Africa in June.
Samsung Electronics is making the biggest change to its smartphone strategy in years by reorganising around its big-selling Galaxy S and foldable Galaxy Z series of devices.
The former Africa Data Centres CEO has been appointed to a senior role in Cassava Technologies.
Lithium’s vital role in electric-vehicle batteries means car makers, miners and investors are racing to figure out how much supply the world will need in the coming years. No one seems to know.
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Amazon.com plans to spend billions of dollars building a network of thousands of satellites to provide broadband Internet service, CEO Jeff Bezos said.
Google has agreed to buy Looker Data Sciences for $2.6-billion, expanding its offerings to help customers manage data in the cloud.
A mobile app used by police to track citizens shows how some of China’s biggest technology companies are linked to a mass surveillance system that is more sophisticated than previously known.
Google has confirmed it has appealed against a €1.5-billion fine issued by the European Commission for alleged illegal practices in search advertising.
Nokia and BlackBerry handsets continue to dominate the SA market but worldwide the picture is very different. A new report from Gartner shows Samsung Electronics is pulling further and further ahead of Nokia and Apple in terms of unit sales. Moreover, Google’s Android operating system
The National Planning Commission’s revised National Development Plan, handed over to President Jacob Zuma by planning minister Trevor Manuel on Wednesday, has raised the idea of separating Telkom structurally into two businesses, one focused on
