Jun 5, 2018
Smart speakers continue to be the world’s fastest-growing consumer technology segment, with year-on-year growth in Q1 2018 of 210% as shipments reached 9-million units. Canalys research shows that Google has now the top spot, beating Amazon for the first time,...
Jun 5, 2018
Microsoft’s $7,5-billion acquisition of GitHub gives the company control of the world’s biggest open source software development platform, where 28-million developers collaborate on the development of 85-million code repositories. “The era of the...
Jun 4, 2018
De Beers is gearing up to sell laboratory-grown diamond jewellery at prices much more affordable than “real” diamonds. A new company, Lightbox Jewelry, will market the new products from September, offering consumers high-quality, fashion jewellery designs...
Jun 4, 2018
South African Airways (SAA) CEO Vuyani Jarana has been offered a R100 000.00 wager that his three-year turnaround plan for the national airline will fail. Leon Louw, executive director of the Free Market Foundation (FMF) is willing to place the wager against SAA being...
Jun 4, 2018
Mastercard has announced an initiative to create greater payment consistency by making “tap and go” standard in the next five years. The next-generation digital technology delivers greater security and convenience for consumers, merchants and governments....
Jun 4, 2018
A significant shift toward digital business models that harness technology trends such as cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) is boosting worldwide spending on application infrastructure and middleware (AIM). Gartner...
