A familiar face takes the reins at Tarsus

By Mark Davison - After months of speculation, Alviva Holdings – parent company of Tarsus Distribution – has announced a new, permanent CEO for one of South Africa’s oldest and leading distributors. Thibault Dousson, currently director of Lenovo’s Solution and...

European orbiter detects hints of volcanic activity on Mars

New evidence from gas seeping above volcanic rifts suggests Mars is not geologically dead deep inside, but merely sleeping. Fresh fissures along the Alba Mons region hint at active spots under the surface, where gases from inside the planet may be making their way up...

NASA experiments with drones for planetary landings

NASA successfully demonstrated technology designed to help spacecraft autonomously navigate to safe landing sites on the Moon and on other planets. An Alta-X drone equipped with the agency’s Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE)...

Turn vision into reality with the right AI strategy

Kathy Gibson reports from Dell Technologies Forum in Johannesburg - Today's leaders aren't asking whether to adopt AI, they're asking how to turn it into outcomes the business can see. And South African companies can no longer afford to take a wait-and-see attitude to...

1,5-degree increase as Earth records three hottest months

Earth just had its hottest three months on record, according to the European Union-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) implemented by ECMWF. Global sea surface temperatures are at unprecedented highs for the third consecutive month and Antarctic sea ice...

Slight uptick for business confidence

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...

Smart helmet for Covid-19 screening now in SA

As nations get more innovative in their battle against Covid-19, South African-based Granule Holdings is now distributing smart helmets to monitor people for high temperatures. The KC N901 smart helmet, it says, can scan the temperatures of up to 200 people every...

90% of employees don’t prioritise high performance at work

It may not be surprising that the way in which a business defines success is not exactly the same way as its employees define success. In fact, the recent Global Career Aspirations Survey by Talent Solutions: Right Management has shown that only one in 10 employees...

Mobile adware: The silent plague with no origin

The world is witnessing a plague of mobile adware, one of the most common forms of cyberthreats designed to collect personal information from a user's device, according to research from security specialist Check Point. The company says that about 4-billion people are...

Is SA’s lockdown lawful?

As South Africans grow restless in the face of their 57th day in a national lockdown aimed at curbing the impact of the Covid-19 crisis, at least one academic is questioning its legality. In the following article, Professor Robert Vivian, Professor of Finance and...

Facebook and the move to remote working

Facebook may make remote work permanent for at least half of its workers. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, speaking to staff via a livestream, says the move to remote working has been hastened by the Covid-19 pandemic, with most employees working from home now. Remote...

As lockdown eases, focus shifts to keeping employees safe

As governments in Africa start to ease lockdown restrictions and reopen local economies, chief financial officers (CFOs) are focusing on plans to provide a safe working environment for their employees and ensure that this safety can be sustained throughout the...

SA consumers reprioritise purchases

The Covid-19 outbreak looks set to further deepen and accelerate a well-established trend towards "cocooning" in South Africa as families stay home to keep safe and make better use of their finances - a trend that is likely to outlast the pandemic. This is according...

RPA implementation still lacking in SA

Robotic process automation (RPA) adoption is lagging in South Africa, and local organisations must move to organise their processes and start deploying RPA if they are to catch up with growing global progress towards hyper-automation. This is according to Johan Steyn,...

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