137 South Africa said on Friday that trade minister Parks Tau has signed a framework economic partnership agreement on a visit to China, which it described as a step towards securing duty-free…
Category: Tech
why SA employers can’t find problem solvers
153 South Africa’s employers keep saying the same thing: graduates can recall information, but they can’t solve problems. The World Economic Forum ranks analytical thinking as the single most important skill for…
South Africa’s stablecoin silence is becoming a policy failure
116 Imagine walking into your local store and paying with a cryptocurrency that always equals R1 – no wild swings, no speculation, just self‑sovereign certainty. A digital token that settles faster than…
Bitcoin faces another reckoning
131 Bitcoin made a 16-month low and tested key US$60 000 support on Friday as a global selloff in technology stocks deepened and washed out risky bets across asset classes. The world’s largest…
Google goes from laggard to leader in AI
155 Image: Reuters Alphabet is taking on OpenAI with a gusto that underscores Wall Street’s perception that the Google parent is the leader in AI, a turn of events from a year…
Smartphone market hit by deepening memory crisis
158 Memory shortages will constrain sales of smartphones for some time, hurting demand for chip industry companies like supplier Qualcomm and chip architecture designer ARM Holdings, executives and analysts said on Wednesday…
Enterprise connectivity has moved from utility to strategy
119 Enterprises face a simple truth: the connectivity function is no longer a support, but a strategy. Mobile networks underpin every distributed team, IoT device and data-driven decision. Yet as mobile estates…
Crypto markets reel as bitcoin slides
137 Bitcoin was on the cusp of breaking below the key US$70 000 level on Thursday as a slide in the world’s largest cryptocurrency showed no signs of stopping. Bitcoin fell 2% in…
SA tech graduates arrive in jobs unprepared as skills gap widens
147 South African companies are paying to train newly hired tech graduates because universities are not supplying the digital skills employers need. As employers continue to shift hiring towards proven skills and…
Taxi industry bets on digital payments to modernise operations
143 The introduction of digital payments for the estimated 10 million South Africans who use minibus taxis daily is central to industry body Santaco’s efforts to propel the industry into the digital…
