Blockchain aims to ensure food safety

Walmart, JD.com, IBM and Tsinghua University National Engineering Laboratory for E-Commerce Technologies announced today they will work together in a Blockchain Food Safety Alliance that will kick off with a collaboration designed to enhance food tracking,...
Avaya completes financial restructuring

Avaya completes financial restructuring

Avaya Holdings has successfully completed its debt restructuring and emerged from Chapter 11. “This is the beginning of an important new chapter for Avaya,” says Jim Chirico, Avaya’s president and CEO. “In less than a year since the commencement of our Chapter 11...
Software drives hardware profits

Software drives hardware profits

Device manufacturers are embracing software over hardware as their primary business model — and it is helping them to increase their revenues. Software is becoming crucial to device manufacturers, specifically in improving business performance and growing...
Incredible Solutions closes its doors: updated

Incredible Solutions closes its doors: updated

It’s been confirmed that Incredible Solutions has closed its doors. IT-Online understands that the company filed for voluntary liquidation, but other sources believe that a bank might have been involved. Vendors and distributors have been locked in meetings...
Poor processes endanger data in the cloud

Poor processes endanger data in the cloud

Swift adoption of cloud-based services and a lack of well-defined security strategies is leaving organisations struggling to keep control of their data, across a sprawling number of services and applications. According to new research from Kaspersky Lab, 35% of...

Mixed year for African economies

Diversified and services-led African economies have had a good year, whereas hydrocarbon-dependent economies continue to be plagued by the aftershock of the oil price slump. This is according to the ICAEW’s (the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and...