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 taxman’s new crypto asset unit is using information from cryptocurrency exchanges to flag non-compliant persons.
Vodacom Group said on Wednesday that it hoping to accelerate its earnings growth over the next five years.
Former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati has launched an AI start-up called Thinking Machines Lab.
Meta Platforms has announced a plan to build the world’s largest submarine telecommunications cable.
The South African Weather Service expects its website and other IT systems to be restored in the next week.
VezoPay, which has developed smart rings for tap-and-go payments, has a new investor: PayFast founder Jonathan Smit.
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The UK said it would block Microsoft’s US$69-billion acquisition of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard.
In their earnings calls on Tuesday, the tech giants offered up starkly different assessments of just how much disruption is in store for the market.
Alibaba’s cloud computing division will cut prices for its products and services by up to 50% starting on Wednesday.
Microsoft beat estimates for quarterly revenue and profit, with the company saying that artificial intelligence products are helping stimulate sales.
Apple, after teasing investors for months about its ambitions to become a services company, is getting ready to showcase plans for new video and news products. All it needs now is for Hollywood to sign up.
Thirty years after the World Wide Web was created, a third generation of Web technology might offer a way to enable better user control, more competition between Internet firms and less dominance by the large corporations.
