Gartner has highlighted the top trends that will impact technology providers through 2025 which reflect three overarching themes: businesses increasing their reliance on technology; new opportunities emerging through technology; and the impact of external macro...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time directly measured the mass of a single, isolated white dwarf – the surviving core of a burned-out, Sun-like star. Researchers found that the white dwarf is 56% the mass of our Sun. This agrees...

Ginni Rometty is stepping down as CEO of IBM, with Arvind Krishna yesterday named to assume the role from 6 April. Rometty, who has worked for IBM for 40 years, will continue as executive chairman of the company and will serve until her retirement at the end of the...

Kaspersky detection technologies have found malicious files disguised as documents related to the newly discovered coronavirus - a virus disease which has been at the top of media headlines due to its dangerous nature. The discovered malicious files were masked under...

Africa's economic growth remained stable in 2019 at 3,4%, and is on course to pick up to 3,9% in 2020 and 4,1% in 2021, according to the African Development Bank's (AfDB.org) 2020 African Economic Outlook (AEO). The slower than expected growth is partly due to the...

The Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG) is urging travellers to reconsider all non-essential travel to China as a result of the novel Coronavirus outbreak. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has issued a Level 3 Warning to avoid non-essential travel to China in its...

Microsoft increased revenue by 14%, to $36,9-billion, during the quarter ended 31 December 2019. Operating income was $13,9-billion, an increase of 35%; net income was up 38% GAAP and 36% non-GAAP to $11,6-billion; and diluted earnings per share was $1.51 an increase...

A massive 93% of total mobile transactions in 20 countries were blocked as fraudulent in 2019. This is according to a report on the state of malware and mobile ad fraud by mobile technology company, Upstream. The "Invisible Digital Threat" data is based on deployments...

Cybercriminals are actively abusing the names of artists and songs nominated for a Grammy 2020 award, in order to spread malware. Kaspersky protection technologies detected a 39% rise in attacks (attempts to download or run malicious files) under the guise of...

Pieter de Villiers, founder of Clickatell and Tinashe Ruzane co-founder of FlexClub are the latest South African entrepreneurs to join the global Endeavour network during Endeavor's 92nd International Selection Panel (ISP). Clickatell provides a chat commerce platform...