Feb 22, 2017
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have...
Feb 22, 2017
Despite all the improvements in computer technology over the years, we still struggle to recreate the low-energy, elegant processing of the human brain. Now, researchers at Stanford University and Sandia National Laboratories have made an advance that could help...
Feb 21, 2017
There are a number of new opportunities for merchants to expand international sales as e-commerce gains traction. This is one of the finding from the third annual cross-border commerce report from PayPal and Ipsos, which investigated the online domestic and...
Feb 20, 2017
Pine Island Glacier has shed another block of ice into Antarctic waters. While the loss was tiny compared to the icebergs that broke off in 2014 and 2015, the event is further evidence of the ice shelf’s fragility. Pine Island is one of the main glaciers...
Feb 16, 2017
BCX has unveiled its new brand as the merger between Telkom Business and Business Connexion nears completion, with BCX being spun out as an independent company operating as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Telkom. Isaac Mophatlane, CEO of BCX, explains that this move fits...
Feb 15, 2017
Digital transformation is top of mind for companies around the globe. But is digitalisation relevant in the South African market? The answer is that there is definitely a disruption of the traditional business models that we know, says Ian Jansen van Rensburg, senior...
