In 1924, Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for pioneering the electrocardiogram. This diagnostic tool for heart conditions ...
How excited would you be about the industry you work in if your profit potential formulaically contracted quadrennially, super powerful politicians hated it, and ...
A black and white collage swirls on a hospital computer screen: an MRI scan. Even to the trained eye, it’s difficult to see anything amiss. But an AI-powered computer ...
Today, one company—Google—controls nearly all of the world’s access to information on the internet. Their monopoly in search means for billions of people, their ...
The practice of medicine often requires making the most of a tragic situation, learning from illness to help people stay healthy. Look no further than the act of ...
E-commerce has become an essential part of today’s world, and media publishers who haven’t already gotten on board with it should immediately start finding strategies ...
Benchmark’s Bill Gurley tweeted in April 2022, “An entire generation of entrepreneurs and tech investors built their entire perspectives on valuation during the ...
Investing in employee experience is more important than ever, as the workforce collectively ponders what it wants. After a tumultuous couple of years, record numbers ...
South Africa’s unemployment rate gets media attention every quarter when Statistics South Africa releases its report on the country’s state of joblessness. Right ...
The cliché “Data is the new oil” appears in many discourses from various sectors of life, be it in business, civil society, or in government. All over the world, ...
As the world moves towards an increasingly digital future, expanded connectivity infrastructure has become a defining feature of a modern economy. It allows people ...
Peloton had a truly impressive run during the beginning of the pandemic: In the first quarter of 2020, subscribers more than doubled from a year earlier, and The ...
Years, and sometimes decades, of patchwork additions as new products and services were added have left many banks with a real tech headache. Now, as they struggle ...
Now, as they struggle with the challenges of open banking and, more recently, the rise of embedded banking, traditional banks are increasingly turning to cloud-based ...
The filling station as we know it is an endangered species. As electric vehicles gradually make up a larger share of cars on the road, entirely new kinds of service ...
Lately we’ve seen lots of obituaries for the office. The pandemic caused a massive shift to work from home (WFH) among knowledge and service workers.
Towards the middle of last year, I was fortunate to be part of a panel discussion during which the question ‘does South Africa need a Startup Act?’ was posed. The ...
As someone who works at a digital-first organisation, it’s been incredible to see how the past two years have accelerated digital transformation across Africa. With ...
The long-awaited workforce revolution has finally happened. Almost one-quarter of office jobs are fully remote. Millions of people are no longer stuck in offices ...
We see many businesses making large investments in cryptocurrencies, while other companies create crypto opportunities for consumers with the marriage of credit ...
The world of crypto in 2021 was buoyed by a number of high profile institutions and businesses investing in crypto at a far greater scale than previously seen, driving ...
Nearly 40% of internet users worldwide prefer interacting with chatbots than virtual agents.
Among its accomplishments to date, Oura (which is pronounced like “Aura”) deserves a spot on any list of crowdfunding projects that have turned into real businesses. ...
The countdown to Black Friday is officially on. With some 10 days to go until the biggest shopping day of the year, consumers have their wish lists at the ready ...
On Tuesday night, The Verge reported that Facebook was planning to rebrand the company with a new name, to signal its ambition to be known for more than social media. ...