Tech’s top brass to present at ITWeb Cloud Summit 2026

Tech’s top brass to present at ITWeb Cloud Summit 2026

Mark Walker, director & co-founder of Transformation for Innovation (T4i). Several tech industry experts will present at the ITWeb Cloud Summit 2026, including Mark Walker, director and co-founder of Transformation for Innovation (T4i), who will focus on the inevitable impact of agentic AI on the evolution of the cloud ecosystem. Walker is among several industry…

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South African tech’s compounding debt problem

South African tech’s compounding debt problem

Every shortcut a tech company takes is a loan. That’s the whole idea behind “technical debt”, a phrase programmer Ward Cunningham coined more than 30 years ago and the smartest bit of financial language software ever borrowed. In my last column, I argued that we sell products before we build them. This is what happens…

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Google humbles Big Tech’s cloud heavyweights

Google humbles Big Tech’s cloud heavyweights

Alphabet’s blowout cloud growth has reset expectations across major tech companies, leaving investors to recalibrate which firms are delivering the clearest returns. All four of the US tech giants that reported results on Wednesday signalled that spending on AI would not slow down, with combined outlays now set to surpass US$700-billion this year, up from…

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Big Tech’s Big Tobacco moment has arrived

Big Tech’s Big Tobacco moment has arrived

Social media platforms Instagram and YouTube have a design defect which means they are addictive, a jury in the US has ruled. The Los Angeles jury took nearly nine days to reach its verdict in the landmark case brought by a woman known as KGM against social media platforms. It awarded US$3-million in damages, with…

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