The author, SAP Southern Africa MD Nazia Pillay From boardrooms to back offices, South African companies are moving beyond AI hype and into execution. But as pressure builds to show tangible return on investment, business leaders are looking for practical, proven AI use cases they can deploy today, not three years from now. The good…
Wikipedia on Thursday unveiled partnerships with several big tech companies including Microsoft, Meta and Amazon, marking a major step up in the non-profit’s ability to monetise tech firms’ reliance on its content. Wikimedia Foundation, the operator of the online encyclopaedia, said it also signed on AI start-up Perplexity and France’s Mistral AI, among other firms,…
Visa is working to integrate stablecoins into existing payment systems, seeing an opportunity to maintain its market leadership as these tokens gain traction, Visa’s head of crypto, Cuy Sheffield, said in an interview. Stablecoins, cryptocurrencies typically pegged to the US dollar, allow funds to be moved outside traditional banking systems. While their circulation has surged,…
SP Electricity North West Moves from Outages to Outstanding Performance with Rimini Street Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a global provider of end-to-end enterprise software support, managed services and Agentic AI ERP innovation solutions, and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today announced SP Electricity North West’s (SP ENW) successful…
President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Dr Patrice Motsepe, on Saturday confirmed that the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) will move to a four-year cycle from 2028. Speaking on the eve of the 2025 edition of the tournament in Morocco, Motsepe said the current two-year cycle of the AFCON will end with the…
Elon Musk. Dado Ruvic/Reuters Elon Musk’s X sued a start-up on Tuesday after it sought to cancel X’s Twitter trademarks so it can “bring Twitter back” as a new social media platform. X said in the lawsuit in Delaware federal court that its Twitter brand is still “alive and well” and “not ripe for the…
India has stepped up diplomatic efforts to deepen its engagement with countries across the Global South, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi continues a multi-nation tour aimed at strengthening political and economic partnerships beyond traditional Western allies. Mr Modi’s ongoing visits to Jordan, Ethiopia and Oman underscore New Delhi’s strategy of building closer ties with emerging…
French pay-television giant and new MultiChoice Group owner, Groupe Canal+, plans to focus aggressively on subscriber growth to take advantage of what it has described as the “underpenetrated African pay-TV market”. The move, outlined in an investor presentation by Canal+ earlier this month, aims to offset MultiChoice’s sinking subscriber numbers, which declined by 1.2 million…
The Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, in collaboration with the African Union Commission (AUC), has convened a two-day multi-stakeholder consultation to pave the way for the development of Liberia’s National Data Policy. The consultation, which runs from November 13th to 14th, 2025, at the Mamba Point Hotel in Monrovia, brings…
Europe’s telecommunications operators are set to gain access to the bulk of key spectrum coveted also by internet providers, with the backing of an advisory body to the European Commission, people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday. The issue pits Deutsche Telekom, Orange, TIM, Vodafone and other telecoms companies against Amazon, Apple,…
