4+ hour, 3+ min ago  (1093+ words) African economies have produced several high-profile billion-dollar startups in recent years, particularly in fintech and digital services. But a new global analysis indicates the next phase of startup growth may be far more competitive, as artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced…...

3+ hour, 54+ min ago  (578+ words) A new World Economic Forum (WEF) report has revealed that the next phase of global competitive advantage will no longer be driven by isolated technological breakthroughs, but by how effectively organisations and countries combine and scale multiple technologies across entire…...

4+ hour, 29+ min ago  (889+ words) Despite growing investments in artificial intelligence and advanced analytics, insurers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are finding it difficult to modernise their pricing systems, according to a recent industry insight by Earnix, a pricing and decisioning platform…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (446+ words) There was a time when using a search engine felt like cracking a code. You typed two or three carefully chosen keywords, hoped the machine understood, and waited to see what came back. People had to learn the language of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (390+ words) By Olumide Balogun, director, Google West Africa The Nigerian digital landscape is evolving rapidly. Across the country, You Tube creators have become the new mainstream entertainment. They command millions of views, shape modern culture, and heavily influence purchasing decisions. For…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (537+ words) Amazon has announced plans to invest up to $25 billion more in Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company, in a major expansion of their strategic partnership that also includes a long-term cloud computing commitment expected to exceed $100 billion over the next decade....

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (593+ words) Apple Inc. has announced a major leadership transition, naming John Ternus as its next chief executive officer, with effect from September 1, 2026, as long-serving CEO Tim Cook prepares to step into a new role as executive chairman of the company's board....

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (256+ words) For a nation where agriculture employs over a third of the workforce yet remains plagued by low productivity, post-harvest losses, and climate vulnerability, AI offers a promise of monumental change. The narrative of farming as a solely back-breaking, rain-fed endeavour…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (377+ words) However, a new tool is entering the fields " not a tractor or a new fertiliser, but an algorithm. Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) is beginning to bridge the gap between traditional farming wisdom and the complexities of a modern, volatile…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (1011+ words) Civilisation is often misunderstood. In many African contexts, it has quietly come to mean proximity to the foreign " foreign education, foreign consultants, foreign systems, foreign validation. Progress is frequently measured by how much of "out there" we can successfully bring…...