Beyond chatbots, South Africa’s 4Sight sees AI running business processes

4Sight Holdings believes the next phase of enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) will be less about chatbots and more about rebuilding how businesses actually work. The South African technology group, listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), has reshaped its executive leadership around that vision, appointing Clark Fourie as chief information technology officer, Jeandré du Randt […]

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Uber restores Visa payments in Kenya after eight-month pause

Ride-hailing giant Uber has restored Visa card payments for riders in Kenya, eight months after removing the option over rising payment costs.  The move reverses a decision that had pushed Visa users to rely on M-PESA, cash and other payment methods. It comes as Uber reviews costs across its business, including a global restructuring that will cut about […]

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From 70 million to 317 million: How Serigne Dioum plans to turn every MTN subscriber into a MoMo user 

From processing 18 loans per second to partnering with Ant International, MTN Group Fintech CEO Serigne Dioum, in this edition of Coffee With…, tells PHATHISANI MOYO how he plans to convert MTN’s 317 million telecom subscribers into a single, closed-loop financial ecosystem.  In 2007, Serigne Dioum, now Chief Executive Officer of MTN Group Fintech, began […]

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TechBBQ’s Charles Kinga on what European investors get wrong about Africa

Charles Kinga does not immediately strike you as someone who can talk for hours. When we meet on August 25 in the lobby of Go Hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark’s capital and largest city, he appears quiet, almost understated. I am in the Danish capital for TechBBQ, the annual Nordic technology gathering, where Kinga heads its Nordic-Africa Startup […]

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