Ford Motor Company is celebrating 100 years in South Africa with a R5,2-billion investment in its local operations for production of the first-ever Ford Ranger Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV). The company is also launching an expanded product range that will...

Tarsus On Demand has launched a digital business hub marketplace, Tarsus on Demand, designed to empower SMEs on their digitalisation journey by addressing their unique challenges and helping them to leverage opportunities within the digital landscape. Senzo Mbhele, MD...

Kathy Gibson is at VMworld 2020 – Remote working, coupled with a move to process automation, is driving rapid developments around edge computing. Meanwhile, next-generation applications will leverage a raft of new technologies including AI, machine learning and 5G...

VMware and Nvidia has announced a broad partnership to deliver both an end-to-end enterprise platform for AI and a new architecture for data centre, cloud and edge that uses NVidia DPUs (data processing units) to support existing and next-generation applications....

Kathy Gibson reports from VMworld 2020 – Cloud and cloud-native architectures have lowered the barrier to entry for new applications. In fact, as many as 75% of new applications will be custom-built, says Ajay Patel, senior vice-president and GM: modern applications...

The gradual re-opening of the South African economy and its changes to the job market, as well as the movements in the UIF TERS funds, are leading to the slow return of take-home pay numbers. "Over the past months - from hard lockdown to the gradual relaxation of...

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reported on September 29 that employment in South Africa declined by 2,2-million during the lockdown-hit second quarter of 2020. Lullu Krugel, chief economist at PwC Africa Strategy&, and Dr Christie Viljoen, PwC Strategy&...

Applications are open for the next AlphaCode Incubate programme which aims to identify, partner and grow innovative financial services entrepreneurs. Successful applicants will receive funding, guidance from performance coaches and a panel of advisory experts, access...

The main reason that hackers initiate attacks is to be challenged. This is one of the findings in survey data acquired by Finbold.com, which indicates that about 68% of hackers initiate attacks in order to be challenged. The survey featured over 3 150 respondents from...

Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) will go into liquidation, after a bid to have it placed under business rescue failed. The South African Social Services Agency (Sassa) won't back down over a debt it is claiming from CPS, making business rescue unlikely to succeed,...