Nedbank offers big data analysis tool
Nedbank has launched what it believes is a first-in-market data analytics tool, Nedbank Market Edge, enabling merchants and other businesses to gain business intelligence and valuable insights into client behaviour through big data. Nedbank Market Edge seeks to empower Nedbank card-accepting companies to develop informed strategies on the back of their own big data, by utilising a multi-layered, user friendly dashboard that draws data from client’s card transactions.
FNB adds self-service card cancellation
FNB customers will now be able to cancel a lost or stolen debit or cheque card at an FNB ATM, ADT or Slimline, making FNB the first bank to enable debit or cheque card cancellation across all its electronic banking platforms and the only one to provide the...
New Horizons calls from Pluto
The call everyone was waiting for is in: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft phoned home last night to tell the mission team and the world it had accomplished the historic first-ever flyby of Pluto. The pre-programmed “phone call” – a 15-minute series of status messages beamed back to mission operations at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland through NASA’s Deep Space Network – ended a suspenseful 21-hour waiting period.
Infrastructure vital for African growth
Closing Africa’s infrastructure gap is a top priority in order to put the continent on the path to double digit growth and sustainable development. This is according to professor of economics, Jeffrey Sachs.“There is no choice, Africa needs 10 per cent per year of...Some online betting is illegal
While online gambling in South Africa remains illegal, there has been a proliferation in recent years of Web sites that offer such services. However, few South Africans realise that by using these sites, they too are breaking the law and could face prosecution. Section 11 of the National Gambling Act states: a person must not engage in or make available an interactive game except as authorised in terms of this Act or any other national law.