Blockchain for crypto-metal trading

Blockchain for crypto-metal trading

Blockchain is the enabling technology for what’s believed to be the world’s first crypto-metal exchange. MetalZoom.Energy is inviting South African miners to join it in disrupting the industry status quo. “Our crypto-metal exchange will provide a...

BCX intros SpliceWorks for techpreneurs

BCX has launched what it claims is a first-of-its-kind online business enablement platform — SpliceWorks — to connect South African techpreneurs with potential business partners. The company says SpliceWorks “is a place that turns big ideas into...

Google buys in HTC’s hardware IP

Google has acquired skills and intellectual property from smartphone manufacturer HTC to boost its hardware agenda. Rick Osterloh, Google’s senior vice-president of hardware, writes in a blog post that the move will fuel the hardware business’s product...

Dell EMC signs up Mitsumi

Dell EMC Middle East has appointed Mitsumi Distribution as an Authorised Dell EMC Enterprise Distributor for the Africa region. Reseller partners across Mitsumi’s entire African footprint now have access to the Dell EMC portfolio, including an extensive and...

FICA doesn’t just affect banks

South African estate agencies, motor vehicle dealers, pharmacies and even schools may be taken by surprise to learn that they are now required to produce evidence in the form of FICA compliant recordings if they are to be used as proof in a dispute. The new FICA Bill...

eSports drives monitor sales

The fast-growing billion dollar global eSports economy drove worldwide gaming monitor sales up 175% in the second quarter of 2017 compared to the previous year, while worldwide shipments of desktop monitors declined by 3%, driven by lower sales in China, according to...