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 global videogames market will return to growth in 2023 on the back of strong sales of consoles, according to new research.
The US and its Western allies wrote the world’s economic rules after World War 2. Now the Global South is quietly revising them.
Two subsea broadband cable breaks, one on Wacs and the other on Sat-3, have resulted in slow international connectivity.
The Free Market Foundation has accused the Competition Commission of “punishing” online firms for being successful.
MTN South Africa has launched a hackathon to challenge developers to build solutions on top of its Mobile Money platform.
Reunert, one of South Africa’s longest-lived companies, will begin trading on the A2X next week.
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Production of some of Apple’s MacBooks and iPads has been postponed due to a global component shortage, the Nikkei reported on Thursday.
Samsung Electronics on Wednesday said first quarter profit likely rose 44%, with analysts attributing the surge to brisk sales of smartphones and TVs.
Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, said it’s offering a revamped version of its Xeon range in time for what it sees as the “biggest build-out of technology infrastructure in human history”.
Clubhouse, the buzzy, audio-based social network, is in talks to raise funding from investors in a round valuing the business at about US$4-billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve read that the “first Earth-like exoplanet” has been discovered. With nearly 2 000 exoplanets found to date, it is no wonder so many of them will resemble our planet in some way. But which
Independent cellular service provider Altech Autopage is likely to be closed down as soon as February next year, with its million or so subscribers sold to the network operators for about R1,5bn
