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Machine learning startup DataProphet hones in on profitable call centre industry
Machine learning is a complicated subject. First experimented with by computer scientist Arthur Samuel back in 1956, the American eventually managed to build a program…
Social media to contribute 13bn transactions to mobile money market
Mobile payments are a growing force around the globe — from the sophisticated tap ‘n go mechanics of Apple Pay to the continued dominance…
Microsoft’s big ad strategy for Windows 10? Babies
We already know that Microsoft’s Windows 10 launch is set to have a little more of the human touch than its previous efforts. On…
Connecting the Karoo: how the internet is changing South Africa’s semi-desert heartland
Back in the Victorian era of the late 1800s, farm life in the Karoo was hard and isolated. There were great distances between farmsteads,…
