Mar 28, 2017
The Minister of Labour has increased UIF benefits with effect from 1 April 2017 – but companies shouldn’t adjust their payroll UIF contribution calculations this month. They should rather wait for the Minister of Finance to gazette the new contribution...
Mar 28, 2017
South Africa’s higher educational institutions reduced unoriginal writing by 43,8% between 2010 and 2014. This follows a move by 20 of the country’s 26 public universities to grade online with Turnitin. Electronic paper submissions increased by 3012% from...
Mar 28, 2017
CIOs in China are investing their fast-growing IT budgets in digitalisation. Gartner’s annual global survey of CIOs found that the great success of digital-born companies in China, such as Alibaba and Tencent, is encouraging more Chinese enterprises to build or...
Mar 28, 2017
As demand for the flexible AMOLED display continues to sharply increase, its revenues are expected to reach $3,2-billion in the third quarter of 2017, exceeding that of rigid AMOLED panels at $3-billion, according to IHS Markit . With many smartphone brands planning...
Mar 28, 2017
EMEA purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) vendor revenues declined 6% year over year to reach $254-million in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker. Capacity...
Mar 27, 2017
Some galaxies are harder to classify than others, and Hubble’s trusty Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) has captured a striking view of two such interacting galaxies located about 60-million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (The Lion). The more diffuse and...
