IBM will invest $70m (about R950m) in developing IT skills in Africa, the US technology giant said on Wednesday. The money will be used to build digital, cloud and cognitive computing IT skills to “help support a
Browsing: IBM
More than 120 companies, from Apple to Zynga, filed an impassioned legal brief condemning US President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, stepping up the industry’s growing opposition to the policy. The amicus brief was filed late
President-elect Donald Trump invited technology leaders to a discussion next week in New York where Silicon Valley will begin building relationships with an incoming administration it initially distrusted and mostly criticised. Oracle co-CEO
A simple tag pioneered in South Africa could soon be used to curb the spread of tuberculosis in Africa. In efforts to better understand how the disease is spread, IBM engineer Toby Kurien and research
A Cape Town duo is set to become one of the first bands in the world to produce a song in collaboration with a supercomputer. The electronica outfit Original Swimming Party is an
IBM has opened its second research location in Africa, and its first in South Africa, with an IBM Research Lab unveiled on Thursday at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. At the same time, the US technology company
Google has spent years telling Wall Street its investments in non-advertising businesses will eventually pay off. Thursday’s results suggest that’s beginning to happen. Google parent Alphabet reported second
Internet giant Google is the most desirable employer globally, according to survey by more than 267 000 millennials. Universum’s Talent Survey asked business and engineering/IT students in the world’s 12 largest economies to choose their
Datatec subsidiary Logicalis has agreed to acquire Spain’s Lantares, a partner of IBM Cognos and professional services provider specialising in business intelligence and data analytics. In a voluntary
On Saturday, something truly remarkable happened. An artificial intelligence program beat the (human) world champion at Go, an ancient Japanese board game. Google’s AlphaGo bot won its third match in the five match series against Korea’s Lee Sedol