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How Walmart’s Indian IT team used AI to predict customer preferences

Walmart Global Tech India developed applications to improve customer satisfaction and employee efficiency during the pandemic.

21 Feb 2022

Artificial Intelligence Retail Industry

African tech start-up funding skyrockets, with fintech a big winner

Tech start-ups in Africa raised just over US$2 billion in funding in 2021, more than 200% over 2020's funding, according to Disrupt Africa. We unpack where the money came from and how it was distributed.

7 Feb 2022 5 mins

Financial Services Industry Startups

SAP sees RISE in its fourth-quarter revenue

Higher renewals and a marked shift to cloud-based revenue as a result of its RISE program are making the company more optimistic about its ambition of reaching annual cloud revenue of u20ac22 billion by 2025.

2 Feb 2022

ERP Systems Financial Services Industry SAP

IBM sheds some Watson Health assets, refocuses on AI and cloud

In selling the data-based part of its Watson Health business to an investment firm, IBM signals that it wants to concentrate on core AI technology.

27 Jan 2022

Healthcare Industry IBM

Top IT takeaways from Microsoft’s $68.7B acquisition of Activision Blizzard

Microsoft says it will trade its workplace culture for Activision Blizzardu2019s metaverse building blocks u2014 potentially bringing a new meaning to the title of software architect. Hereu2019s what else CIOs should know.

19 Jan 2022

Mergers and Acquisitions Microsoft Technology Industry

Top African tech conferences and events

CIO Africau2019s list of major technology conferences is curated specifically for professional IT executives in private enterprise and government in sub-Saharan Africa. Check out the latest updated list!

11 Jan 2022 5 mins

Careers IT Skills Technology Industry

The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of 2021

This year has seen multiple billion-dollar-plus acquisitions in hardware, software, and services, as well as plenty of smaller, strategic merger activity in areas vital to enterprise IT.

31 Dec 2021 18 mins

Mergers and Acquisitions Technology Industry

8 biggest IT disasters of 2021

From security flaws to software engineering fails, these high-profile IT disasters wreaked real-world havoc this year. Let them serve as cautionary tales.

28 Dec 2021 12 mins

Technology Industry

Kyndryl partners with Google to support customers in cloud

The month-old IBM spinoff already has new deals with Microsoft, SAP, and VMware — but not yet with AWS.

9 Dec 2021

Cloud Computing Managed IT Services Managed Service Providers

Top AWS re:Invent takeaways for CIOs

CEO Adam Selipsky outlined a wide range of new tools and functionality in his first turn at the helm of Amazon Web Services. Hereu2019s what IT leaders should know.

3 Dec 2021

5G Amazon Web Services Technology Industry

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