May 22, 2014
Swiss business school IMD has released its annual world competitiveness ranking of 60 economies. The IMD World Competitiveness Centre also looks at perceptions of each country as a place to do business. “The overall competitiveness story for 2014 is one of...
May 22, 2014
Gemalto has been chosen to help Algeria roll out its ambitious e-passport strategy. The Algerian governmental agency, Hôtel des Monnaies de la Banque d’Algérie, has selected Gemalto’s Sealys eCover for e-passports and embedded e-travel software to support its...
May 22, 2014
Standard Bank has launched it mobile payment app, SnapScan – the bank’s first mobile payment offering that allows merchants to receive payments from their customers through a combination of a QR code and a secure PIN number. According to Standard Bank’s head of...
May 22, 2014
Yesterday (20 May) marked the 50th anniversary of the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation – one of the strongest pieces of evidence supporting the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe. This discovery in 1964 by Bell Labs scientists Arno...
May 22, 2014
Black-owned artisan training company, Artisan Training Institute (ATI), has invested R35-million in satellite offices, refurbishing buildings and upgrading – and buying – equipment. This is according to co-founder and CEO, Sean Jones, who says: “This R35-million has...
May 22, 2014
Telkom is to make a cash offer to buy out all of Business Connexion’s (BCX’s) shares. The value of the deal will be about R2,7-billion. As one of the largest ICT and cloud service providers on the JSE, BCX has offices in the UK and Dubai as well as in South Africa. It...
