Dec 4, 2018
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has announced the launch of a global task force charged with recommending strategies to harness the potential of financial technology to advance the Sustainable Development Goals. The Task Force on Digital Financing...
Dec 4, 2018
Berg Insight is of the opinion that the market for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) for public transport is in a growth phase which will continue in the years to come. The public transport market is impacted by a number of trends, including several ITS-related...
Dec 4, 2018
Vodacom will officially open its new flagship mall in Midrand on Friday (7 December), a R70-million development boasting 6 000 square metres of retail space – and believed to be the biggest digital goods mall in the world. The new superstore replaces and expands...
Dec 3, 2018
South Africa’s banking sector is increasingly moving towards a ‘marketplace without boundaries’, shaped by the fast-approaching entry of new digital players challenging the status quo in the market, and driving unprecedented levels of innovation. In...
Dec 3, 2018
A massive 500-million people have been compromised in one of the world’s biggest data breaches to date. Marriott has confirmed a data security incident involving the Starwood guest reservation database, with investigations determining that there was unauthorised...
Dec 3, 2018
In the third quarter of 2018, Chinese brands Huawei and Xiaomi, helped drive global smartphone sales, according to Gartner. Overall, sales of smartphones to end users grew 1,4%in the third quarter of 2018 to reach 389-million units. “If we had taken both Huawei...
