Fintech offers compassionate healthcare alternative

A new all women-led fintech start-up company, Alignd, aims to bring alternative and affordable healthcare models to the South African market. Alignd is the brainchild of three South African women: Dr Linda Holding, a palliative-trained doctor with 20 years of clinical...

First African woman pilot gets behind SA girls

The first African female commercial pilot in South Africa, Asnath Mahapa, has become the spokesperson for 2019’s Cell C Take a Girl Child to Work Day campaign. This initiative is aimed at broadening young people’s horizons in South Africa, specifically...

Intel, Google Cloud partner on hybrid cloud

Intel and Google Cloud have announced a strategic partnership aimed at helping enterprise customers seamlessly deploy applications across on-premise and cloud environments. The two companies will collaborate on Anthos, a new reference design based on the...

Altron expects higher earnings

Allied Electronics (Altron) has published a trading statement relating to the financial year ended 28 February 2019. The group has alerted shareholders to the possibility of significantly higher headline earnings per share and earnings per share for both total...

Disruption drives microservices networks, app management

The application platforms and cloud native services marketplace is undergoing a significant and disruptive transformation. Complexities around infrastructure implementations of modern architectures have threatened to derail critical DevOps initiatives, prompting a...

Commercial sales a bright spot in declining PC market

The worldwide market for traditional PCs, inclusive of desktops, notebooks, and workstations, declined 3% year over year in the first quarter of 2019 (1Q19), according to preliminary results from International Data’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing...