Firms fail to focus on the long term

Firms fail to focus on the long term

Oct 23, 2014

Business process resilience is mission-critical, but businesses may be missing opportunities to fortify themselves. In a global survey of 330 C-suite executives by FT Remark and Wipro, nearly all respondents (98%) agreed that technology risk management is important or...
Crowdsourcing to understand DNA

Crowdsourcing to understand DNA

Oct 22, 2014

What do the DNA in Australian seaweed, Amazon River water, tropical plants, and forest soil all have in common? Lots, say scientists.

Is it a car … or a tablet?

Is it a car … or a tablet?

Oct 21, 2014

Everyone knows that Tesla Motors doesn’t do things the same way as other automakers, but its latest model operates more like a tablet than a traditional car.

Siding Spring hurls past Mars

Siding Spring hurls past Mars

Oct 20, 2014

Satellites observing Mars took shelter behind the Red Planet yesterday (19 October 2014) while observing a close comet flyby. Comet C/2013 A1, also known as comet Siding Spring, passed within about 139 500km of Mars – less than half the distance between Earth...
All change for MEA handsets

All change for MEA handsets

Oct 17, 2014

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) handset market grew to its largest size in ten quarters in Q2 2014, expanding 27% year on year to total 64-million units. The latest insights from global advisory and consulting services firm International Data Corporation (IDC) show...
African development must come from within

African development must come from within

Oct 16, 2014

Africa is growing at a steady rate and is on the path to long-term sustainable growth, but the resources required for this must come from generating financial resources within its own economies and not aid. Speakers at the ECA’s Ninth African Development Forum agreed...