Jan 30, 2020
Kathy Gibson is at IDC Directions 2020 in Sandton – South Africa is no stranger to bad news. As 2020 unfolds, every day seems to bring another blow to the business community. But local companies still have to do business and move forward, despite – or...
Jan 29, 2020
Business interruption catapulted from fifth position in last year’s Allianz Risk Barometer (23% of responses) to the top business risk (31% of responses) in Africa and the Middle East this year as larger and more complex business interruption (BI) losses...
Jan 28, 2020
A brother and sister team taking part in a 3 000-mile race across the Atlantic Ocean are using cloud-based technologies to stay in touch. Despite being hundreds of miles from land, Anna and Cameron McLean use Microsoft Teams tool to contact loved ones, and receive...
Jan 27, 2020
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft was designed to find exoplanets by looking for stars that dim as a planet crosses the star’s face. Fortuitously, the same design makes it ideal for spotting other astronomical transients – objects that brighten or dim over...
Jan 24, 2020
Xerox has fired another salvo in its hostile takeover bid for HP Inc, nominating 11 new directors to the HP Inc board. In November Xerox launched the hostile takeover bid after a mutual due diligence process to negotiate an acquisition was declined. This bid was...
Jan 23, 2020
Kathy Gibson is with PwC at Melrose Arch – The only thing that is certain about South Africa’s economic outlook is uncertainty. Indeed, around the world CEOs are exhibiting a record level of pessimism about what lies ahead for the global economy – fears that are...
