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Africa: Suss Ads Bets On Ai to Transform Customer Service Across Africa

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago08 mins

Nairobi — Nairobi-based advertising technology firm Suss Ads is expanding beyond advertising technology into enterprise customer-experience software, betting on artificial intelligence to help businesses manage growing volumes of customer conversations across digital platforms. The company has launched Suss CX, an AI-powered customer-experience platform that brings conversations from WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook Messenger and Instagram into a…

Aweh bets on family offerings to crack MVNO market

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago06 mins

Nokuthula Mkhwane, MD of Aweh Mobile. Aweh Mobile has entered South Africa’s mobile market as the latest mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), targeting households with a service that lets them manage multiple SIMs through a single account. The operator, which officially launched yesterday, is positioning its offering around the way families share mobile connectivity, rather…

Huawei’s Mate 90 bets on 3D chip design to get around US curbs

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago06 mins

Huawei Technologies unveiled its Mate 90 smartphone series on Thursday, betting on its in-house operating system and a redesigned chip architecture to boost performance in the face of US curbs on shipments of advanced semiconductors. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday ahead of the launch, Huawei consumer business chief Richard Yu said the company still faces…

BMW restructuring plan bets on AI and new models

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago04 mins

BMW has set out a restructuring plan on Wednesday centred on AI, management cuts and two new model launches as the German luxury automaker seeks to restore investor confidence after a string of profit warnings and a deep slump in its share price. As Europe’s car industry struggles with weak demand, Chinese competition and US…

DFC bets big on African fibre with 5-million Wiocc deal

DFC bets big on African fibre with $155-million Wiocc deal

eriinfo.com1 month ago04 mins

The US International Development Finance Corporation said on Wednesday it would invest up to US$155-million in African digital infrastructure provider Wiocc Group, underscoring Washington’s support for projects seen as critical to the expansion of US technology companies. Washington has increasingly backed telecommunications and digital infrastructure projects in Africa as it seeks to provide alternatives to…

White House teleprompter operator ordered to pay 2K for placing prediction market bets on Trump’s speeches

White House teleprompter operator ordered to pay $172K for placing prediction market bets on Trump’s speeches

eriinfo.com2 months ago03 mins

A teleprompter operator for President Donald Trump who made online prediction trades based on information from upcoming speeches has been ordered to pay $172,000, a federal agency said Friday night. Gabriel Perez used “material, nonpublic information” he obtained through his job to place “trades” on a prediction market, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said in…

Sea Ray parent Brunswick bets on AI, recurring revenue to help boat sales

eriinfo.com2 months ago07 mins

Brunswick Corp., a global leader in boat manufacturing and recreation on the water, is counting on advanced technology to help with stalling sales. The parent company of Sea Ray, Boston Whaler and other boat brands, says advanced navigation technology and autonomous docking can take some of the complexity out of maneuvering a vessel around a…

Netcare bets on AI to catch deterioration doctors cannot see

eriinfo.com3 months ago07 mins

Prof Reitze Rodseth, head of clinical data innovation and research at Netcare Netcare is applying to the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority for approval of an AI system designed to predict early warning signs of life-threatening deterioration in hospital patients, following a clinical study in the group’s intensive care and high care units. The…

Mastercard bets billions on the tech that could eat its lunch

eriinfo.com3 months ago09 mins

Prakriti Singh, regional executive vice president for core payments at Mastercard Mastercard will not disclose what it earns when a transaction settles in stablecoins rather than over its card rails, and it will not predict whether AI shopping agents will grow or shrink the volumes moving across its network. What it will say – repeatedly…

China’s BrainCo bets on wearable brain tech

eriinfo.com4 months ago012 mins

Brain-computer interfaces, a nascent technology, establishes a direct link between human minds and devices. BrainCo Elon Musk’s Neuralink, which uses implants in people’s heads to compensate for disabilities, has become the poster child for so-called brain-computer interfaces (BCI). But some companies are betting that mass-market neural tech won’t require opening the skull at all. BCI…