Feb 19, 2018
South Africa has seen a sharp turnaround in debt, the first positive upturn since Q3 2015. The Experian Business Debt Index (BDI) went up to 0.443 in Q4 2017 from 0.059 in the previous quarter. As the best reading since 2014, this suggests South African business debt...
Feb 16, 2018
Aside from laudable victories for competition such as the reduction in mobile termination rates, the South African telecommunications sector is becoming a tennis match characterised by endless sets of policy implementation decisions and policy implementation failures....
Feb 15, 2018
Quantum computing has the potential to tackle problems that today’s conventional computers can’t handle. Scientists and industries are looking to quantum computing to speed advancements in areas like chemistry or drug development, financial modelling and...
Feb 14, 2018
Kathy Gibson reports from PwC’s pre-budget review – As social, political and economic uncertainty preys on South Africans, one thing is certain: there’s a huge revenue deficit that has to be addressed in the budget next week. “For the last few years we have...
Feb 13, 2018
Surgeons in the UK are using Microsoft’s mixed-reality headset to “see inside” patients before they operate on them. A team at Imperial College London are wearing HoloLens devices in operating theatres so they can spot key blood vessels, bones and...
Feb 12, 2018
The first documented cryptocurrency malware attack has taken place on the SCADA network of a critical infrastructure operator. Radiflow, a provider of cybersecurity solutions for critical infrastructure, discovered the cryptocurrency malware attack as part of routine...
