Deregulating the economy a matter of urgency

Mpiyakhe Dhlamini, a data science researcher at the Free Market Foundation, offers his analysis on the issue of deregulation. Small business is widely acknowledged as the engine of economic growth in both developing and developed economies. The South African...

R12,8bn from 22m eWallet transactions

FNB has revealed that consumers have sent over R12,8-billion worth of eWallet funds from 22-million eWallet transactions processed between July and December 2018. This is a 25% year on year increase in the value of funds that consumers have sent via eWallet. In...

Airport asset tracking systems to hit 0,4m

Berg Insight has found that that the global installed base of active airport asset tracking systems was less than 0,2-million units in 2018. This includes all airport asset tracking systems deployed for various motorised ground support equipment (GSE), non-motorised...
First exascale supercomputer is on the cards

First exascale supercomputer is on the cards

Intel and the US Department of Energy (DOE) will deliver the first supercomputer with a performance of one exaFLOP in the US. The contract is valued at more than $500-million and will be delivered to Argonne National Laboratory by Intel and sub-contractor Cray in...

How to ease daily travel with smarter cities

Visa, in collaboration with Stanford University, has launched one of the largest global studies examining the growing demand for public and private transportation, and the important role digital commerce plays in driving sustainable growth. According to the UN, by...

Phishing attacks more than doubled in 2018

Kaspersky Lab’s anti-phishing system prevented more than 482-million attempts to visit fraudulent web pages during 2018, a two-fold increase on 2017, when 236-million such attempts were blocked. Annual rises in the number of phishing attacks have been observed...