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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Thousands of striking workers at companies under Massmart will return to work after reaching an agreement over disputes.
Meta Platforms has responded to the news last week that several South African publishers are dragging it and Google to the Competition Commission.
MTN Group, the largest pan-African telecommunications operator, said on Monday that it plans to implement a Covid-19 vaccine mandate.
TradeDepot, a Nigeria-based e-commerce start-up, quadrupled its valuation and is looking at South Africa and Ghana for expansion.
Another mystery investor has appeared with an offer to bail out investors in the failed Africrypt cryptocurrency scheme.
The bank is expanding the telecommunications solutions it offers through its FNB Connect division, launching fibre-to-the-business products in partnership with Vox.
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Five years after its ballyhooed debut, Apple Pay is still struggling to take off. Apple is betting its swanky new credit card can change that.
Oracle will dismiss several hundred workers in May as the world’s second largest software maker tries to rejig its faltering cloud computing strategy.
Apple may not be able to offer the same range of content as Netflix when it launches its Apple TV+ streaming service, an industry expert has suggested.
Apple has announced a string of new services as the company looks to further establish itself outside of smartphones.
Just when telecommunications industry players and analysts thought SA couldn’t possibly get any more undersea broadband infrastructure, news is emerging of a raft of new cable systems that will serve both SA and the region. On Monday, Brazil, Russia, India, China and SA — the so-called Brics countries — announced plans for a new high-capacity
Although some US analysts are predicting that Apple’s share price could push past the US$1 000/share barrier in the next 12 months, making it the first $1 trillion company, I believe the more “boring” technology companies such as Dell, Microsoft and Intel offer a more sensible prospect for investors. The market is valuing Apple’s operating
