2019 tipped to be the year of digitalisation

The coming year is set to be a watershed year for SMEs as the last of the late adopters make the switch to digital ICTs. From outdated analogue telecoms technologies, 2019 will see the last significant tranche of late adopters finally transition to digital...

Naspers leads $1bn investment round in India’s Swiggy

Naspers has executed definitive agreements to lead a $-1billion Series H round in Swiggy, India’s largest food delivery platform with a $660-mllion investment. The round includes participation from several existing investors including DST Global, Meituan Dianping and...

16,5m patients are remotely monitored

Berg Insight has released new findings on the mHealth market. The number of remotely monitored patients grew by 41% to 16,5-million in 2017 as the market acceptance continues to grow in several key verticals. This number includes all patients enrolled in mHealth care...

Another Windows zero-day vulnerability discovered

Kaspersky Lab researchers have automatically detected a new exploited vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows OS kernel, the third consecutive zero-day exploit to be discovered in three months. The latest exploited vulnerability (CVE-2018-8611) was found in malware...

Research uncovers how memory works

Researchers have discovered that “fully detailed” memories are stored in the brain, but people access this information at different speeds and levels of detail, with people accessing memories “forward” by recalling older information first. They...

Technology set to get more personal in 2019

The idea of an assistant that can schedule meetings and arrange a calendar, order lunch and remind you that you need to leave the office before 4:30 on Thursday to make it across the city to dinner with colleagues doesn’t seem too extraordinary – until you learn...