The Bureau for Economic Research (BER) survey of private business sentiment shows that the Business Confidence Index (BCI) for Q3 improved slightly to 33 from 27 in Q2. While the small gain is encouraging, BCI remains at sharply depressed levels with the Q3 reading...

The Institute of Directors in South Africa (IoDSA) and the King Committee say that, although they remain supportive of reform efforts in what is a highly contested area, some of the proposals contained in the Companies Act Amendment Bills 2023 relating to remuneration...

Global sales of smartphones to end users declined 20,2% in the first quarter of 2020, according to Gartner. The global shelter-in-place, combined with the economic uncertainty brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, led to demand for smartphones collapsing as consumers...

New vehicle sales looked for a jump start as the industry resumed activity from a practically dormant April. Levels of activity and sales during May showed the very real impact provided by the decision to allow the motor industry to return to work under Alert Level 4....

The selling prices of notebooks through Distribution across most Western European countries has strengthened over the past few weeks, according to a new and more accurate price index devised by Context, the IT market intelligence company. Regular average selling price...

Gartner has identified nine traits CFOs should implement for better performance during the coronavirus pandemic. Gartner experts base the recommendations on findings from the past 20 years of Gartner research into how CFOs of efficient growth companies guide their...

According to a new research report from Berg Insight, global shipments of connected digital signage displays grew by 16,7% to 17,2-million units in 2019. Market growth is driven by greater demand for digital signage solutions in all market verticals, technological...

Over 5-million years ago wolf-sized otters and leopard-sized relatives of living wolverines (members of the weasel family that look more like badgers than wolves) lived along the West Coast of South Africa. This is according to recent discoveries by scientists at the...

Just weeks after winding down their operations, companies are being asked to restart their engines at an unprecedented rate as lockdown rules are gradually relaxed. The challenge is complicated by uncertainties about the progression of Covid-19 and the social,...

In early 2020, a series of targeted attacks on industrial organisations in various regions was reported. According to the latest Kaspersky ICS CERT findings, these hits were focused on systems in Japan, Italy, Germany, and the UK. The list of targets included...