Sakr wins Africa 2017 elevator pitch

Omar Sakr, the founder and CEO of Nawah-Scientific, has won the “elevator pitch” competition, held last week at Africa 2017 at Sharm-el-Sheikh, in Egypt. The prize is an entry to a training programme at Stanford Business School in California, the spiritual...

Deadline for ECA comments extended

The deadline for public comments on the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill has been extended to 31 January 2018. Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services Dr Siyabonga Cwele announced today that the decision was informed by the requests for extension...

How hackers could steal cryptocurrency

News has broken about $64-million in cryptocurrency that has been stolen in a sophisticated hack. While blockchain, the technology underlying bitcoin, is widely thought to make breaches impossible, there are ways to get around it, says Martin Walshaw, senior systems...

How to value crypto-currencies

Cryptocurrency traders are using a new kind of valuation measure — the NVT ratio — but some financial traditionalists are questioning whether this helps people understand cryptocurrency valuations. A primary concern with cryptocurrencies is that there...

New blockchain exchange aims for inclusivity

The Forus Global Digital Exchange, using blockchain realise financial inclusion for the poorest communities, will launch in South Africa, the US and the Caribbean. The public utility blockchain and ecosystem solution that will provide a single, global, universal,...

PC workstation sales still growing

Volume sales of PC workstations through Western Europe’s largest IT distributors continued to rise in early Q4 2017, increasing +8% year-on-year. This continues the growth already seen in previous quarters, according to data published by European IT market...