Affordability chokes new vehicle sales
With yet another year-on-year decline in new vehicle sales, WesBank says affordability is the biggest factor limiting growth. This view is supported by the TransUnion SA Vehicle Pricing Index that showed that new vehicle prices rose 4,7% for the first quarter of 2024...
Nvidia has an outsize impact on S&P index
Nvidia has significantly boosted the S&P index, contributing 33,73% of its returns this year with its soaring stock price. Stocklytics financial analyst Edith Reads comments: "Nvidia's significant contribution to the S&P 500's growth in 2024 highlights its...
IBM in strategic collaboration with AWS
IBM has signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS), with plans to offer a broad array of its software catalogue as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) on AWS. Building on IBM Software being available as-a-Service (aaS) on IBM Cloud, this...
Total private investment in AI more than doubled in 2021
A moneytransfers.com analysis of the sector places private investment in AI in 2021 at $93,5-billion - more than double what it was in 2020. The total amount of funding raised by venture capitalists (VCs) for AI startups has increased significantly since 2017....
All about NASA’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2
NASA and Boeing are taking another major step on the path to regular human spaceflight to the International Space Station using American rockets to launch spacecraft from American soil with the second uncrewed test flight of a commercial crew spacecraft. NASA's Boeing...
Smart traffic management will save 205m tons of CO2
A new study from Juniper Research has predicted that global savings in CO2 emissions from smart traffic management systems will be 205mmt (million metric tons) by 2027; a growth of 41%, up from just 145,7mmt in 2022. Reducing congestion through optimised traffic...
Supply constraints hurt hardcopy sales
Despite the continuing supply chain issues affecting the Western European hardcopy market, 1Q22 was a relatively good quarter for some, but still pretty bad for others. Widely publicised supply chain issues for hardware, toner, and ink have now been compounded in some...
SAP Code Week upskills 1,8m young learners
The 2021 edition of SAP Africa Code Week (ACW) saw more than 1,8-million young people between the ages of 8 and 16 equipped with 21st century learning and coding skills via 41 000 workshops held across the continent. Since 2020, there has been a 23% increase in youths...
Decline in mental health could be linked to increased smartphone use
Your weekly smartphone usage report can be a startling reminder of how much time you spend on your phone but for younger people, who have grown up with smartphones, it could also be a sign of a more severe problem. A new study, "The Deteriorating Social Self of...
Worldwide digital transformation investments set to reach $1,8trn
Global spending on the digital transformation (DX) of business practices, products, and organisations is forecast to reach $1,8-trillion in 2022, an increase of 17,6% over 2021. According to a new update to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Digital...
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ERP systems to support global growth
Large South African companies have firmly established themselves as giant players in the global markets for the products and services they provide. From mining and heavy industry to energy and petrochemicals, many of our largest listed companies have rapidly expanded...
Digital Action Printers broadens portfolio
Digital Action Printers in Cape Town has deployed a Ricoh Pro C751 Ex with long sheet option that replaces existing equipment reaching end of life and enables the business to produce larger covers. The business plans to acquire a second Pro C751 in the near future...
Phishing, exploits, botnets affect business
More and more often companies are the targets of cybercriminals regardless of their size, says Carey van Vlaanderen, CEO of ESET Southern Africa. The attacks usually end with sensitive information being stolen, leaving the business in a very difficult situation. In...
Jovago celebrates first anniversary
Africa’s largest online hotel booking platform Jovago.com, celebrates first anniversary in Western Africa. With the backing of investors like MTN and Millicom, a great passion for Africa and its partnership with 20 000 hotels across the continent Jovago eases the...
Check Point introduces Threat Extraction
Check Point Software Technologies, the largest pure-play security vendor globally, has introduced Check Point Threat Extraction, a new security approach that proactively ensures documents are delivered to a network with zero malware in zero seconds. Attacks are...
SAICA launches new app
The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants’ (SAICA’s) social vision is to invest in South Africa’s economic success through education. In partnership with youth specialist agency, HDI Youth Marketeers, SAICA has developed a series of university activations specifically aimed at bridging the gap between Accounting Sciences students, and students studying to qualify as prospective CAs(SA).
Mining retrenchments affect artisan training
Mine operators worldwide - and in South Africa - are cutting costs and spending as a fall-out in commodity prices dampens profits. One of the negative spin-offs of this scenario is that mines in South Africa are also cutting back on artisan training, at a time when...
SA’s data centres are in development
Data centres have for years been known to be excessive consumers of power, consuming up to 3% of all global electricity production, and roughly ten times more per square metre than the average office. Previously, energy efficiency wouldn’t necessarily be at the top of...
Industry 4.0: IoT and industry
When we talk about the Internet of Things (IoT), we tend to think of connected homes and smart devices making our lives easier and more efficient through the use of technology, says Klaus Dieter Rennert, chief executive for Europe, Hitachi. However, when the same...
Schneider Electric, Autodesk collaborate
Schneider Electric and Autodesk have announced the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding. According to this agreement, Schneider Electric and Autodesk plan to collaborate to enhance current practices for building lifecycle management based on Building Information Modeling (BIM). As part of the collaboration, the two companies are exploring ways to complement each other’s strengths to make buildings more energy efficient from the design and construction through operation and end-of-life phases.
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