Jun 5, 2018
Microsoft’s $7,5-billion acquisition of GitHub gives the company control of the world’s biggest open source software development platform, where 28-million developers collaborate on the development of 85-million code repositories. “The era of the...
Jun 4, 2018
De Beers is gearing up to sell laboratory-grown diamond jewellery at prices much more affordable than “real” diamonds. A new company, Lightbox Jewelry, will market the new products from September, offering consumers high-quality, fashion jewellery designs...
Jun 1, 2018
Off the coast of Hawaii’s Big Island and more than 3 000 feet beneath the ocean surface lie the warm, bubbling springs of a volcano, a deep-sea location that may hold lessons for the search for extraterrestrial life. Here, NASA and its partners are blending ocean and...
May 31, 2018
Isaac Mophatlane’s Randvest has made its first big acquisition, buying up 100% of IT infrastructure company Bridging Technologies SA (BT-SA). The acquisition was effective from 1 March 2018. BT-SA, which has been in business for 35 years, specialises in data...
May 30, 2018
More than two-thirds of global employees work remotely every week, and over 50% do so for at least half of the week, heralding a major reassessment of corporate real estate. According to a comprehensive new global study by IWG, parent group of Regus and Spaces, the...
May 29, 2018
The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) in Sutherland has discovered a binary star system in the Hourglass Nebula, one of the most famous nebulae captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hourglass Nebula...
