Jan 30, 2013
Accenture has launched South Africa’s first Innovation Index, to promote business growth and development of new, sustainable enterprises that would in turn spur job creation. The global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company aims to use the...
Jan 29, 2013
More than 30 government agencies from 23 countries requested user information from Twitter during 2012 – and the social media company complied with most of them. During the year, Twitter received 1 858 requests for information, with the bulk of these – 1...
Jan 28, 2013
A group of Internet users has launched a landmark privacy case against Google for undermining the security settings on Apple’s Safari browser, in order to track online usage covertly. In the first case of its kind in the UK, a number of people with concerns...
Jan 25, 2013
A post-festive season sales report by online retailer kalahari.com reveals that tablets were the second most purchased electronic devices on the site. While the e-tailer’s pre-festive season shopping survey predicted the Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy tablets as the...
Jan 24, 2013
Businesses that capitalise on major changes in consumer behaviour can generate significant growth over the next few years, according to a new report from Accenture. The report, entitled Energising Global Growth: Understanding the Changing Consumer, concludes that...
Jan 23, 2013
In 1953, Cambridge researchers Watson and Crick published a paper describing the interweaving “double helix” DNA structure – the chemical code for all life. Now, in the year of that scientific landmark’s 60th Anniversary, Cambridge researchers have...
