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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Samsung Electronics is expanding its AI push with a new suite of enhancements for its premium TV line-up.
South Africa is poised for Chinese investment in its R500-billion motoring industry.
Microsoft is planning to invest about $80-billion in its 2025 financial year on developing data centres.
Nigerian telecoms firms are lobbying for permission to double prices to weather harsh economic conditions.
For the first time since 2016, the rand has found itself among the best performing emerging market currencies.
Naspers subsidiary Prosus is acquiring online travel agency Despegar.com for the equivalent of R32-billion.
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There’s an area the Tesla and Twitter chief says the government should regulate now: artificial intelligence.
Binance’s stablecoin, Binance USD, has seen around $6-billion of outflows following a US regulatory crackdown on the company that issues the token.
A minority of Swedes said in a survey they’d used cash in the previous 30 days. The direction of travel is the same everywhere.
US payment giants Visa and Mastercard are slamming the brakes on plans to forge new partnerships with crypto firms, sources said.
The arrest last week in Canada of Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, China’s iconic company, is a watershed event.
Nearly 170 years before the invention of bitcoin, the journalist Charles Mackay noted the way whole communities could “fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit”.
