Oct 29, 2018
IBM is to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190.00 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $34-billion. “The acquisition of Red Hat is a game-changer. It changes everything about the cloud...
Oct 29, 2018
By 2030, 80% of heritage financial services firms will go out of business, become commoditised or exist only formally but not competing effectively, according to Gartner. These firms will struggle for relevance as global digital platforms, fintech companies and other...
Oct 29, 2018
Lessons that the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) and Eskom learnt about raptor electrocution have helped to kick-start a raptor project in Australia. Constant Hoogstad, senior manager: industry partnerships at EWT, travelled to Tasmania to facilitate the formalisation...
Oct 29, 2018
South Africa and Morocco share the title of largest African foreign direct investment (FDI) hub. According to EY’s latest Africa Attractiveness report, FDI was up across the continent last year, although South Africa experienced a fall in project numbers on the...
Oct 29, 2018
MTN Group grew its subscribers by 2,5-million to 225,4-million in the quarter ended 30 September 2018. Active data subscribers increased by 5-million to 74,2-million during the period, while active MTN Mobile Money customers increased by 1,7-million to 25,8-million....
Oct 29, 2018
While much of the recent crypto-related news headlines have focused on the fluctuating bitcoin price, Africa’s interest in the crypto-currency has continued to grow. Crypto-currency marketplace Paxful reports that its total number of transactions from African...
