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Breaking News Today – Friday 31 October 2025
Business News Today Tech Giants Chasing AI Development Relentlessly Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon have all announced plans for higher annual capital expenditures as they pour money into chips and data centres. Additional financial announcements over the last 24 hours show the massive shift in the AI race, with global tech giants falling over themselves to push
AI in Africa – Where to From Here?
Challenges in AI Adoption A full one third of the world still have no internet connectivity: This is a clear hurdle that exists across the globe when talking about digital adoption and specifically AI adoption. This is highlighted further, when looked at through the lens of an African perspective. At the end of 2024, only
Breaking News Today – Thursday 30 October 2025
Business News Today Southern African Currencies Strengthen The South African rand appreciated to around 17.1 per USD, reaching its best exchange level against the US dollar since January 2023 this morning. The improvement was undermined by rising prices of key precious metals, particularly gold, platinum and palladium. In addition, the country’s removal from FATF's Illegal-money
AI Expo – Talking Bubbles and AI in Africa
The AI Expo Africa kicked-off with a sobering perspective from Expo co-founder and AI expert Kieth Jones. From his perspective there is no doubt about the AI bubble, that ever expanding mushroom of global tech enthusiasm is expanding to a point where it will inevitably burst.. The picture developed by Jones is however not a
Breaking News Today – Wednesday 29 October 2025
Business News Today AI Expo Africa Kicking Off Today Africa's largest AI event kicks of today with a focus on promoting the responsible development of AI across the continent. From real-world case studies to detailed tech demos, the event aims to engage delegates about the current and near term state-of-the-art, best practice, available technology and
Why South Africa Should Still Be on the FATF Grey List: Policies on Paper, Peril in Practice
In a move hailed by government officials and business leaders as a milestone for economic recovery, South Africa was officially removed from the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) "Grey List" on October 24, 2025, after nearly three years of heightened international scrutiny. The delisting, announced during the FATF's plenary session in Paris, signals that the
Breaking News Today – Tuesday 28 October 2025
Business News Today US and China Agree on Trade Agreement Framework According to various news reports, China and the United States have agreed to a framework for a potential trade deal that will be discussed when their respective leaders meet later this week, according to the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent. The deal will include
No Free Lunch Podcast- Is the AI Promise Over-Hyped
In this episode of "No Free Lunch," host Greg Stewart engages with Nick Hudson, co-founder and chairman of PANDA (Pandemic, Data, and Analytics), to discuss the skepticism surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and its perceived value. Nick shared some of his controversial perspectives on AI developments that cast a serious shadow over the current narratives around
Breaking News Today – Monday 27 October 2025
Business News Today FATF – Nigeria and South Africa off "Grey-List" – Launches AI Fake Countermeasures Sub-Saharan Africa’s two largest economies, South Africa and Nigeria, have finally been removed from a FATF's list of countries subject to increased monitoring for illicit money flows. Mozambique and Burkina Faso were also removed. Paris-based Financial Action Task Force
South Africa's Trade Playbook: Navigating Global Shifts for Export Resilience
South Africa's import-export sector stands at a pivotal crossroads. Verto's latest white-paper, South Africa’s Playbook for Mastering Global Trade, dissects this landscape, urging businesses to transcend traditional strengths toward sophisticated strategies that blend digital innovation with sustainability. At stake: a R164 billion export engine in early 2025, bolstered by automotive prowess and citrus vitality, yet
Breaking News Today – Friday 24 October 2025
Business News Today Singapore Seeking New Investment Opportunities in South Africa Enterprise Singapore, the city-state’s trade and enterprise agency, Are leading a business trade mission in South Africa this week and have stated that the mission, part of its Scale-Up Programme, is aimed to connect participating firms with South African counterparts and to seek potential
Data and AI cannot Connect Without Context
AI is changing our daily lives, and making extraordinary complex tasks, particularly from a data searching and basic task perspective, but it's also changing the enterprise software space and how enterprises data can be used and refined to provide meaningful business insights. According to Stef de Mulder of SAP, you need "on the fly" access
Breaking News Today – Thursday 23 October 2025
Business News Today Inflation In South Africa Edges up on Higher Utilities and Food Increases South Africa’s annual inflation rate ticked up to 3.4% in September 2025 from 3.3% in August, slightly below market forecasts of 3.5%. It remains within the official South African Reserve Bank's target range of 3%-6%. Price growth accelerated primarily for
Africa's Entertainment & Media Sector Surges – PwC Outlook Forecast
According to the latest PWC Entertainment and Media Report released today, Africa's entertainment and media (E&M) industry is set to outpace global E&M growth. Released today amid economic headwinds, the report spotlights Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya as resilient powerhouses, with digital advertising, streaming, and gaming reshaping how content is created, consumed, and monetized. The
Breaking News Today – Wednesday 22 October 2025
Business News Today Chat GPT Announces Surprise New Browser Launch Challenging Google OpenAI launched its new AI driven Atlas web browser named "Atlas" in a surprise livestream. The Announcement kicked-off with CEO Sam Altman himself, speaking directly to the audience. “We think AI represents a rare, once-a-decade opportunity to rethink what a browser can be about,” Altman said. According to
Business School – Monetising Your Social Media Followers
Almost everyone today is looking for a side gig or hustle to subsidise their income or to generate income that can replace a permanent job. With expanding reach, social media channels are becoming more than simply entertainment platforms, they have become big drivers of e-commerce. With multiple opportunities for people to start a business out
Breaking News Today – Tuesday 21 October 2025
Business News Today Amazon Web Services Suffer a Major Platform Outage Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud platform used by numerous web applications, with a significant share of the global internet infrastructure, suffered a major outage yesterday, bringing down several major websites and apps used by millions of users worldwide.The issue, was caused by a
No Free Lunch Podcast – Fintech Payment Facilitation in Africa Building Businesses
In this episode of "No Free Lunch," host Greg Stewart sits down with Jonathan Thomson, the Executive Head of Commercial at Kazang, a leading FinTech company in South Africa. The discussion delves into the informal economy, particularly the Tavern industry, which is a significant part of South Africa's economy, estimated to be worth around a
Breaking News Today – Monday 20 October 2025
Business News Today China's Rare Earth Magnet Exports and Economy Contracts As US President Donald Trump heads into trade talks with China today, data out this morning shows China’s rare earth magnet exports fell 6.1% month-on-month to 5,774 metric tons in September 2025, ending three months of gains ahead of the government’s October expansion of
Time Running Out For Africa to Benefit From Global Shifts
Global Rare Earth Shifts: Creating Tensions and Opportunities Africa sits in a pivotal position at a point where critical minerals and rare earth supply and manufacturing has become a global focal point in current global trade wars. The past few weeks have seen much activity, talks, threats and significant moves by the major global markets