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How companies can beat challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
First, there was water and steam. Then there was electricity. The Third Industrial Revolution introduced electronics and IT. Now the fourth is digital. Each stage has been characterised by its respective disruptive force that shook the foundations of society. This…
How does AI contribute to next-level data analytics?
The Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) are just some of the technology phrases that are becoming part of business discussions at insurance companies across South Africa. Even though insurance companies are incredibly data rich, very few of…
Teaching coding today will grow the economy tomorrow
It’s no secret that the digital revolution is going to create major disruption in the workplace. But the good news is if we are able to develop the skills necessary to support these emerging phenomena, then we have the opportunity…
New series of The Futurist Report explains effects of AI
Ericsson, together with AT&T Foundry and RocketSpace have released the third series of The Futurist Report. The report gives an inside look into the cutting-edge technologies and companies that are shaping the future of artificial intelligence (AI), and what this means…
Uganda on the Fintech curve
In the financial world, technological disruption is nothing new, having triggered far-reaching change over the centuries. The banking world of today is poles apart from that of ancient Babylon where merchants offered grain to farmers to transport goods. The latest…
Startupbootcamp invites fintech startups for 2017 FastTrack tour
Europe’s accelerator programme, Startupbootcamp will be hosting a FastTrack tour, calling on South African start-ups in the insurance and Fintech space to showcase their entrepreneurial talent. The 2017 FastTrack tour will be coming to Johannesburg on 14 August and Cape…
How AI is changing the world as we know it
Imagine a world ruled by robots, where artificial intelligence is used to wield commercial influence and drive our daily decisions. Imagine if your every move was predictable, your behaviours easily anticipated, your world reduced to a set of probabilities. This…
Facebook Big Data can transform your brand
Since the first friend request was made on the Harvard campus in 2004, Facebook has become the biggest social media platform in the world by far, with 1.94 billion active users, which is more than Twitter, Whatsapp and Instagram combined.…
Google continues advances in AI and Machine Learning
Google search has made some advances over the past years – from auto-complete, to image search and natural language understanding. which lets Google figure out what you want no matter how badly you spell it or how you phrase it.…
How Artificial Intelligence Will Revolutionise Banking
Artificial Intelligence gets a bad rap in pop culture. Movies like Terminator (with its rebellious Skynet) and 2001 (with its murderous HAL 9000) portray a future where the robots get smart, and conclude that it is in their interests to…
Artificial Intelligence’s Poker face – time to fold or call its bluff?
Most of us get how a machine can beat a human at Jeopardy and Go. But what does it say about the learning capability of machines – which, by the way, is not fully understood – when a machine bluffs…
The rise of AI: the rise of new skills
The fear that artificial intelligence will threaten the jobs of human workers is quickly being dispelled. “It is natural that with change comes fear, however fear also hinders development moving forward. Change should therefore be viewed as an opportunity and…
South Africa: New online real estate platform launched
Leadhome, a South African real estate agency has announced the launch of Simpli, a new platform that aims to make buying or selling a home easy and stress-free. The platform is the first of its kind in the South African…
2017: A Tipping Point for Cloud
By 2020, nine out of 10 organisations will utilise hybrid cloud infrastructure, according to Gartner. With cloud spending in this area rising faster than ever before and data centre outsourcing on the decline, 2017 is set to be a tipping…
Online accounting platform surpasses 1 million subscribers globally
Xero Limited, an online accounting software company has recently surpassed one million subscribers* worldwide on its global cloud accounting platform. Xero has doubled subscriber numbers in less than two years and has quickly grown to become a global accounting platform,…
The cloud is broadening its horizons
Cloud technology is no longer the new kid on the block. It has slowly and steadily infiltrated almost all aspects of our lives, from personal device storage to large-scale enterprise management systems, bringing with it convenience, but more importantly for…
