CEO turnover is at a record high

CEO turnover hit a record high of 17% in 2018 but there is a group of executives holding steady. According to the 2018 CEO Success Study issued by PwC’s Strategy&, while the median tenure of a CEO has been five years, 19% of all CEOs remain in position for...

Top wireless trends for 2019 and beyond

Wireless technology plays a key role in today’s communications, and new forms of it will become central to emerging technologies including robots, drones, self-driving vehicles and new medical devices over the next five years. Gartner has identified the top 10...

60% rise in password stealing attacks

The use of malware designed to harvest consumers’ digital data – known as password stealers – has seen a significant rise in 2019. According to Kaspersky’s data, the number of users, targeted by the stealers, peaked from less than 600 000 in...

MTN builds for a 4IR future

MTN is developing a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) and is re-purposing thousands of sites across the country to harness narrow band internet of things (NB-IoT) as the rollout of turnkey solutions for enterprise customers gathers pace. Giovanni Chiarelli,...

African Development Bank approves $300m TDB facility

The African Development Bank has approved a $300-million support facility for the Eastern and Southern African Trade & Development Bank (TDB). The COMESA regional trade and project finance package consists of a composite funded trade finance and project finance...
This is what a marsquake looks like …

This is what a marsquake looks like …

Earth isn’t the only place that experiences quakes: Both the Moon and Mars have them as well. NASA sent the first seismometer to the Moon 50 years ago, during the Apollo 11 mission; the agency’s InSight lander brought the first seismometer to Mars in late...