May 11, 2016
In Africa’s boardrooms, growth is on the agenda – together with addressing stakeholders’ expectations and concerns and managing the pipeline of talent. Business strategies of companies include the growing of regional operations, investing in and...
May 10, 2016
While blockchain offers the potential to transform the financial services industry, fully achieving these benefits will require board level buy-in to a substantial commitment of time and resource, and active regulatory support for reform of business processes –...
May 9, 2016
A new NASA analysis of 30-years of satellite data suggests that a previously observed trend of high altitude clouds in the mid-latitudes shifting toward the poles is caused primarily by the expansion of the tropics. Clouds are among the most important mediators of...
May 6, 2016
Since 2000, when the first camera phone was introduced, the number of mobile users has quintupled globally – and, by 2020, mobile data traffic will grow nine-fold in South Africa, at a compound annual growth rate of 55%. These are among the findings of the Cisco...
May 5, 2016
Bioquark, a company focused on the development of novel biologics for complex regeneration and disease reversion, and Revita Life Sciences, a biotechnology company focused on translational therapeutic applications of autologous stem cells, have received approval for a...
May 4, 2016
Sony has filed a patent for a contact lens that will allow users to record and play back video images. The proposed design would build on both contact lens and smartphone technology, and will be controlled by the user blinking. The abstract from the US patent...
