New York — Côte d’Ivoire will take center stage in the U.S.-Africa business relationship in 2027, as Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) today announced that the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire will host the 2027 U.S.-Africa Business Summit. The announcement was made during CCA’s Côte d’Ivoire Business and Investment Forum at The Westin New York at…
A previously unknown Windows trojan distributed through pirated film downloads has infected several hundred individuals and organisations across Europe, Asia and Africa, and uses the Solana blockchain to keep its command infrastructure out of reach of conventional takedowns. Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team, which named the malware MovieReaper, published its analysis on Securelist late…
Mduduzi Sibisi, Product Head at New Leaf Technologies. The global corporate e-learning market is forecast to more than triple in size this decade as employers face growing pressure to continuously reskill their workforces – but the surge in demand is also exposing a fundamental problem: organisations need to create and update training content faster than…
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…
