More SA users in Facebook privacy breach

More South Africans than originally estimated may have had their details harvested by Cambridge Analytica. Facebook now puts the figure at 96 134, well up from the 59 777 it earlier admitted to. While only 13 South Africans are known to have downloaded Cambridge...

Electric vehicles not denting oil demand

Short-term oil demand is still growing strong and will continue to do so through the end of 2020; a trend taking place despite the market’s increasing focus on electric vehicles and the forecasted future plateau in oil demand, according to new analysis from IHS...

Sabtia tackles incubation problems

Non-profit organisation The Southern African Business and Technology Incubation Association (Sabtia) has been mandated by government to address the challenges in the local business incubation and acceleration community. Lindiwe Zulu, minister of small business...

Cloud comes of age in Africa

Cloud computing has taken off dramatically across Africa’s major markets, but its benefits are experienced very differently in each region – as are its budget allocations. These were some of the key findings of Cloud Africa 2018, a research project...

Blockchain and its use in the real world

Kathy Gibson at IDC CIO Summit in Chartwell – The blockchain revolution is real, and gaining pace. The generic definition of a revoltion, says Jon Tullett, research manager: IT services, Africa at IDC, is when a group of people get together to overthrow an...

The technologies that are shaking up IT

Kathy Gibson is at IDC CIO Summit in Chartwell – Disruptive forces are driving new technology directions – and organisations that don’t at least understand them run the risk of being left behind. IDC has identified the key technology trends that are...