ZACR on .africa awareness campaign

As the likely administrator of the new .africa generic Top Level Domain (gTLD), the ZA Central Registry (ZACR) has embarked on an awareness programme targeting Africa’s best known brands.  The .africa Pioneer Programme aims to encourage a premier set of early...

US firms ready to invest in Africa

US companies are eager to invest in Africa, specifically in the power sector, according to the spokesman from one company that has already made such an investment. “Symbion Power and many other companies from the US are ready to invest in Africa,” says Symbion Power...

Trojans dominate Q1 threat landscape

During the first quarter of 2013 alone, more than 6,5-million new malware samples were created, following the trend of increasingly prevalent malware statistics of previous years. This is according to the PandaLabs Quarterly Report for Q1, which analysed the IT...

Debt mediation yields positive results

The National Debt Mediation Association’s latest quarterly report shows that 531 new cases of debt mediation were opened in the first quarter of this year.  While this is a 19% decrease compared to the last quarter of 2012 where 659 new cases (excluding bulk cases)...

Computer science the top choice

Computer science is the most popular subject offered by the world’s top universities. The second and third most popular subjects are mechanical engineering and medicine.  This is according to the 2013 QS World University Rankings by Subject, published on...

African innovator targets food production

With global population expected to grow to 9-billion by 2050, and with more than 900-million people living in hunger, the demand for nutritious food is rapidly increasing. Acknowledging this need and the impact of hunger in Africa, the Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA...