Students seek solutions to CT water crisis

Cape Town’s Day Zero may have been postponed for 2018, but for interns at the Explore Data Science Academy (EDSA) their project was an opportunity to take existing data and derive fresh insights into the city’s water crisis. The question posed to the...

Disruption needed in used car market

For the last few decades, the second-hand car market has been in a stagnant state – often associated with distrust, inefficiency and a lack of transparency – and with pre-owned car sales dominating the market, it is often the average consumer that suffers...

Modest growth for printer hardware in EMEA

Unit shipments of printer hardware to Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) grew by +3% year-on-year in Q1 2018 for only the third time in the last two years. The positive performance was largely due to increased sell-in in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) and...

Businesses not considering blockchain ‘risk falling behind’

Blockchain, in many ways, appears to signify the dawn of a new era as it relates to the way we store and exchange value. In fact, it can be considered one of the biggest technology breakthroughs in recent history, similar to the advent of the Internet in the early...

Minister sets the record straight

The Department of Communications has issued a statement on behalf of Minister Nomvula Mokonyane, correcting recent press articles which erroneously quote her as saying that all contracted local manufacturers of government set-top-boxes import decoders from abroad....

SA first for Sanlam in insuretech

Sanlam has announced its partnership with Plug and Play, the world’s largest global innovation platform headquartered in Silicon Valley, becoming the first South African partner in the Plug and Play Insurtech program. “Insuretech is fundamentally changing...