Feb 3, 2020
January has seen bitcoin prices climb from $6 836 (R102 313) at the beginning of the month to $9 341 (R139 804) on 31 January. Marcus Swanepoel, CEO of Luno, comments: “Digital assets are still subject to high levels of volatility but we are seeing greater...
Jan 31, 2020
The Fourth Industrial Revolution brings about great change, driven by the interdependent forces of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), network-based logic, machine learning, augmented and virtual reality and quantum computing. This has led to many...
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...
