Jan 18, 2018
IBM and Maersk plan to establish a joint venture to provide more efficient and secure methods for conducting global trade using blockchain technology. The aim of the new company will be to offer a jointly developed global trade digitization platform built on open...
Jan 17, 2018
VMware sub-Saharan Africa is once again on the lookout for a new leader, following the resignation of current regional director Matthew Kibby. Kibby has tendered his resignation and will officially leave the company on 31 January. “Matthew has been a great...
Jan 16, 2018
A new app-driven bank, the brainchild of Michael Jordaan and Yatin Narsai, is set to launch in South Africa this year. The 45% black-owned Bank Zero has been granted a provisional licence by the South African Reserve Bank, and will launch in the fourth quarter of...
Jan 15, 2018
A system of at least five exoplanets has been discovered by citizen scientists through a project called Exoplanet Explorers, part of the online platform Zooniverse, using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope. This is the first multi-planet system discovered...
Jan 12, 2018
Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs (desktop, notebook, and workstation) totalled 70,6-million units in the fourth quarter of 2017 (4Q17), recording slightly positive (0,7%) year-on-year growth. This is according to the International Data Corporation (IDC)...
Jan 11, 2018
Future smart cities will need to be human-centric and revolve around “the living street”. This is according to Ford president and CEO Jim Hackett, in his keynote talk at CES yesterday. “It’s not about cities getting smarter, it’s about...
