Venture capital drives SA tech sector

The Southern African Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SAVCA) 2017 Venture Capital (VC) Success Stories report highlights the role that VC plays in supporting South African business, and follows the launch of the SAVCA 2017 VC Survey that revealed that...

Panel makers bet on high-end displays

Display shipments for notebook PCs are forecast to increase by 5% in 2017 to 177-million units compared to the previous year, while notebook PC unit shipments are expected to remain flat during the same period. Being worried about slower shipments next year due to...

Vox launches IT as a service

Vox, has bundled a number of its IT solutions into an integrated IT-as-a-service offering that delivers flexible, cost effective IT resources with the option of fully managed services. Vox IT-as-a-Service delivers an all-inclusive suite of infrastructure, application...

Hollard backs insuretech startup

Hollard is backing Naked, an insuretech start-up company set to enter the market in the first quarter of 2018. Naked has received funding through a R20-million investment from Hollard and Yellowwoods, a private investment group with interests in insurance ventures...

SAP uncovers proof of Gupta payments

SAP employees paid commissions to Gupta-related companies, to secure contracts at Transnet and Eskom. An investigation didn’t find any payments to government, Transnet or Eskom employees. The company will institute disciplinary procedures against three of the...
Mega-dino prints in Lesotho

Mega-dino prints in Lesotho

An international team of scientists has discovered evidence of an extremely large carnivorous dinosaur that roamed southern Africa 200-million years ago. At the outset of the Jurassic Period, about 200-million years ago, the largest carnivorous dinosaurs were...