Facing cloud chaos, CIOs aim to achieve cloud smart

Kathy Gibson is at VMware Explore in Barcelona – Companies around the world lived through a difficult two years with the pandemic – and for many of them things are getting worse. “Over the last few months the macro environments that customers work in...

Gates Foundation calls for bold and immediate action at COP27

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has echoed African leaders’ calls at COP27 for countries to rapidly scale-up finance for climate adaptation, and pledged to invest $1,4-billion to help smallholder farmers address the immediate and long-term impacts of...

All-time highs for electronic payments in October

BankservAfrica has set a new record on EFT payments by processing over 100-million EFT credit payments in October. EFT credit payments are lower-value credit payments made by consumers, businesses and government. “The total of 101-million transactions –...

Record amount of crypto stolen in October

The rate of crypto being hacked and stolen has been rising at an alarming rate and, according to analysis byStockApps.com, more than $1-billion was plundered in October this year – the most in any one month in 2022. “Crypto frauds are becoming more popular...

A third of Americans think cryptos are Ponzi schemes

According to BanklessTimes.com, a third of the US population believe digital assets are Ponzi Schemes. Ponzi schemes have been around for a long time and usually involve someone promising high returns on investment, but using money from new investors to pay off old...