DRM South Africa Group chairman Aldred Dreyer South Africa’s latest digital radio experiment is nearing lift-off, with DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) trial broadcasts expected to go live within weeks, potentially timed to coincide with World Radio Day on 13 February. That’s according to Aldred Dreyer, chairman of the DRM South Africa Group, the organisation that’s…
Amid alarming global water shortages, a UN report declares a new era of ‘water bankruptcy’, emphasising the need for urgent action and redefined policies to address irreversible losses. United Nations water experts are calling for the formal recognition of a new era of global water “bankruptcy”, arguing that terms such as water “stress” or “crisis”…
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Netflix’s advertising business has reached a major turning point, more than doubling its revenue to $1.5 billion between 2024 and 2025. During the company’s most recent earnings call, co-CEO Greg Peters expressed high confidence in this trajectory, projecting that ad revenue will “roughly double again” in 2026 to reach approximately $3 billion. This rapid scaling…
Young people in Namibia are among the least interested in starting their own businesses compared to their peers across Africa. This is according to a new Afrobarometer survey on barriers to youth empowerment. The survey is based on 50 961 face-to-face interviews conducted in 38 African countries during Afrobarometer’s Round 10 surveys in 2024 and…
Getty Images The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant has the world’s largest installed capacity Japan has restarted operations at the world’s largest nuclear power plant for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster forced the country to shut all of its reactors. The decision to restart reactor number 6 at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa north-west of Tokyo was…
Board, one of the leading Enterprise Planning Platforms, today announced the launch of Board Agents built on Microsoft Foundry. Board Agents deliver an intelligent suite of domain-specific, enterprise-ready AI agents that support real-world planning decisions across finance, supply chain, and merchandising. This marks the first Board enterprise planning capability developed with Microsoft Foundry, using Microsoft…
In spite of some drawbacks, the competition lives up to its billing After a dramatic final that was nearly disrupted by poor officiating and team indiscipline, the Teranga Lions of Senegal defeated the host nation, Morocco, on Sunday night to claim their second Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) title. Pape Gueye scored in the first…
Alpha and Jam Africa has unveiled Olympia, described as the largest mixed-format advertising board in Lagos, located beside the National Theatre and the Wole Soyinka Centre for Art and Culture. The media group said the project marks the first phase of its three-year programme to develop ultra-large billboard infrastructure across 10 cities globally. Speaking on…
“We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in his speech at Davos on Monday. “Great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons, tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.” “You cannot live within the lie of mutual…
