Oct 29, 2013
South Africa has joined a collaboration between top business schools in BRIC countries to help business and investors find out how to make the most of emerging markets in Africa. The World Bank recently raised its economic outlook for sub-Saharan Africa for the next...
Oct 28, 2013
A loop high above Saturn by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft revealed this view of the golden-hued planet and its main rings. This natural-colour view – seen as human eyes would have seen it – shows off the differently coloured bands of weather at Saturn. A...
Oct 25, 2013
Absa has committed more than R550-million to improve and enhance its ATM network and expand self-service banking facilities. Absa operates the largest ATM footprint nationwide with more than 9000 ATMs. Enhancements to the network include ATMs which provide convenient...
Oct 24, 2013
Although the State IT Agency (SITA) is behind in implementing its turnaround plan, there is a new spirit of innovation and partnering at the organisation. With a new board and new CEO having taken over recently, the original turnaround plan can be said to have...
Oct 23, 2013
South Africa is likely to be the home of the next record-breaking supercomputer, with Exabyte capacity and compute power in the Exaflops (floating point instructions per second) range. Dr Happy Sithole, from the Centre for High Performance Computing, says this new and...
Oct 22, 2013
Enterprise software giant SAP is well on track to achieve its goal of $1-billion in revenue in Africa by 2016. Although yesterday’s quarterly results showed global double-digit growth for the company – the 13th consecutive quarter to do so – Africa led the charge with...
