Who are the most attractive employers?

Top technology brands once again dominate the list of favourite employers chosen by business and engineering/IT students in the world’s 12 largest economies. More than 267 000 millennials in Universum’s Talent Survey have ranked the companies they find most desirable...

Special delivery by DHL: a black rhino

DHL has completed a landmark transportation project with the delivery of a black rhino from its birthplace in the Czech Republic to its natural homeland in Tanzania. Three-year-old female Eliska was moved to a natural park in Tanzania as part of an ongoing...

Are you earning more than Einstein?

How does your salary compare to some of the world’s most famous scientists? Popular job search site Adzuna calculated the inflation-adjusted salaries for Einstein, Curie and nine other well-known scientific figures. The results suggest that Isaac Newton should have...
Blank sun heralds solar minimum

Blank sun heralds solar minimum

The sun has gone blank twice in June, with no sun spot activity recorded at all. According to Meteorologist Paul Dorian, the sun went spotless for the first time since 2011 from 4 June, for four days. Although sunspot regions then reappeared for the next few weeks on...
Startups are not creating jobs

Startups are not creating jobs

Spotting an opportunity that sparks an entrepreneurial idea is a dominant driver of startup businesses in South Africa – but they are not creating jobs at the scale and rate South Africa so urgently needs. This is just one of the findings of South Africa’s...

Companies count the cost of data loss

Organisations are failing to appreciate the growing challenges of protecting their data and, as a result, are experiencing the economic impact of data loss. New findings from the EMC Global Data Protection Index 2016, an independent study by Vanson Bourne of...