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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The environment department has turned down an application to moor a floating, gas-fired power plant in the port of Richards Bay on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast.
When Nvidia announced plans to buy ARM, the deal was more than just the chip industry’s largest-ever acquisition. Now its audacious plan is in peril.
South Africa is readying a mandatory vaccine policy and is set to implement it early next year, a senior labour union official said.
The battle between operators for the fixed-wireless home broadband market just stepped up a gear.
TFG – the retailer also known as The Foschini Group – has acquired Quench, a digital shopping platform and last-mile delivery provider.
South African publishers, including Media24, are taking Google and Meta Platforms to the Competition Commission, seeking compensation for use of their journalism.
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Uber Technologies has selected the New York Stock Exchange for its imminent initial public offering, handing the trading floor what could be one of the five biggest listings of all time, a source says.
Facebook disclosed a flaw on its social network that made passwords of hundreds of millions of users visible to employees and said the issue has now been fixed.
Google has been issued a €1.5-billion fine by the European Commission for alleged illegal practices in search advertising.
Google is to begin asking Android users in Europe about their preferred search engine and Web browser apps after being accused of abusing its position by the EU competition authorities.
A lot of people are scratching their heads this week at the news that Facebook is acquiring photo-sharing site Instagram for US$1bn. The allure of retro-styled photo filters is pretty weak justification for a price tag that high. But of course it’s not about the photo filters, it’s about the fact that Instagram engages your
“Ideas so simple,” reads a cartoon on an elevator door, “that they feel like the completion of a thought,” continues its twin. Similar doodles adorn the walls of HTC’s headquarters in Taoyuan, near Taipei, and business cards carried by the smartphone-maker’s staff. John Wang, the chief marketing officer, lays out a set of four: concentric
