The short answer? Around the middle of the year. While many businesses only start thinking about corporate gifts in the final few months before the holidays, that’s often when product choices become limited, production schedules tighten and unnecessary compromises creep in. The strongest year-end gifting campaigns don’t begin with a last-minute product search. They begin…
India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, center, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Feb. 19, 2026. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images Tech companies’ venture capital portfolios are making corporate profits look a lot stronger than they really are. Microsoft, Amazon…
I’ve watched more deals than I care to remember get won on a promise rather than a product. A slide that looks great. A demo held together with tape the night before. A road map sold as if it were already shipping. The purchase order lands this quarter. The bill lands later – and it’s…
Visa’s Lineshree Moodley South Africa’s consumers have spent the past few years ditching cash for taps, virtual cards and even payment rings. The country’s businesses, by and large, have not. That is the gap Visa is now targeting, announcing the local launch of Visa Commercial Pay in partnership with First National Bank and Rand Merchant…
Shares of Zoom Video Communications Inc. skyrocketed as much as 18% on Friday, marking the company’s largest intraday gain since September 2020. The stock rally followed a stronger-than-anticipated sales forecast, signalling that the videoconferencing pioneer is successfully convincing enterprise clients to pay for its broader ecosystem of workplace productivity tools. Read: Google says Gemini Omni…
Amazon said on Wednesday it was cutting 16 000 jobs worldwide in the second major round of layoffs at the company in three months, as it restructures after pandemic-era over-hiring and expands the adoption of AI tools. Reuters reported last week that Amazon was planning a second round of job cuts as part of a…
In a year shaped by geopolitical tension, technological disruption and intensifying scrutiny of corporate conduct, Anthony Chiejina has once again secured a place among the world’s most influential communications leaders. In the orchestration of influence, some leaders make themselves heard; others, like Chiejina, make themselves felt. As Group Chief, Branding & Corporate Communications, Dangote Industries…
Kampala , Uganda — Africa PR Week, the continent’s leading platform for public relations and strategic communications professionals, has named Stanbic Bank Uganda’s Kenneth Agutamba among the Top 100 Corporate Communication Leaders in Africa. The recognition, announced during Africa PR Week in Nairobi, places Agutamba among a select group of practitioners shaping how African organisations…
The Government of Mauritius and the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) are pleased to announce that the 2026 U.S.-Africa Business Summit will take place from July 26–29, 2026, in Mauritius. The official dates were released today during a joint press conference hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and CCA in Port Louis, marking an…
Sanveer Ramdutt with his company’s new AccurioPress C4080. More than eight decades ago, Gainchund Ramdutt stepped into the printing trade in Durban. By 1969, armed with skill and ambition, he founded Art Printers – a family business that would eventually become part of South Africa’s history. During the anti-apartheid struggle, Art Printers wasn’t just a…
