Decentralisation mooted for African cryptocurrency

While some sceptics may have misgivings about the technology, cryptocurrency and blockchain has disrupted financial services and will probably be around for a lot longer. This is the view of Heinrich Springhorn, business analyst at MobileData, who says: “There...

Defence exports set for first-ever decline

A weakening defence export order backlog points to a contraction in the market by 2018, according to the annual Global Defence Trade Report from IHS Markit. The report examines trends in the global defence market across 65 countries and is based upon 40 000 programmes...

15% growth for fleet management systems

The number of active fleet management systems deployed in commercial vehicle fleets in North America was 6,7-million in Q4-201, according to a new report from the leading M2M/IoT market research provider Berg Insight. Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of...

Is Gigaba eyeing Telkom sell-off?

As SAA bail-outs reach a staggering R16-billion, it’s believed the R14-billion stake in Telkom held by the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) could be in Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba’s sights to help balance the books. The latest bail-out – R2,2-billion to...

Destruction of services attacks coming soon

Threats are rapidly evolving, while the magnitude of attacks is increasing – to the extent that Cisco’s 2017 Midyear Cybersecurity Report (MCR) forecasts potential “destruction of service” (DeOS) attacks. These could eliminate...

SAP Africa signs on interim management team

SAP Africa has appointed an interim management team for Africa after four members of top management were placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of a forensic investigation into allegations of wrongdoing. The new management team is made up of Ashley Boag as...