‘Leave the Reserve Bank alone’ says FMF

The South African Reserve Bank Amendment Bill, 2018 (Private Member’s Bill) will be introduced by Julius Malema. Richard Grant, Professor of Finance & Economics at Cumberland University and Publications Editor of the Free Market Foundation, has issued the...

Facebook users hit with new bug

Facebook has come under fire again, this time for a blocking bug that has potentially affected as many as 800 000 users. Erin Egan, chief privacy officer at Facebook, says the company will start notifying more than 800 000 users about a bug in Facebook and Messenger...

Smart payment cards show 4% growth

A total of 2,3-billion payment chip cards were shipped globally in 2017, according to top level findings from the 2017 annual review of the smart payments market by the Smart Payment Association (SPA). Following adjustments to accommodate shipment data provided by new...

New vehicle sales on track for 0,75% growth

At the start of the year WesBank predicted new vehicle sales of 0,75% growth for the total industry. Comparing this projection with data released by the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (Naamsa) for the first half of the year, WesBank...

$100m at stake in hacker crypto-challenge

A global hacker challenge has put up prize money of $100-million in cryptocurrency – if hackers can break the security, they can keep the tokens. Hoyos Integrity is a global secure mobile telecommunications as a service provider. For the Global Hacker Challenge,...

Printers sales through distribution stay flat

Sales of printer hardware through distributors in Western Europe (WE) during early Q2 were flat year-on-year (Y/Y). This improvement follows a steady decline in printer hardware sales over the last four quarters according to the latest distribution data published by...