The 20-week sales ban on tobacco products introduced by the South African government in response to the Covid-19 pandemic did not have the intended objective of encouraging large-scale smoking cessation, a study has found. The paper, published in Tobacco Induced...

Last year saw a dramatic slowdown in global IPO activity, with the total value of deals plummeting by 72% to $171,2-billion. However, 2023 doesn’t look much better as high inflation, rising interest rates, and the gloomy economic outlook continue to make fundraising...

As of the end of Q1 2020, many 3D printer companies from the US, Europe, China and everywhere across the globe have rightly refocused their effort away from printer sales to producing much-needed supplies to help combat coronavirus, according to research by Context....

Advocates of the lockdown ignore the most basic law of life, that benefits have costs, and that costs easily exceed benefits. This is according to Leon Louw, CEO of the Free Market Foundation (FMF), who has issued the following statement: People's most "essential"...

Worldwide PC shipments totalled 51,6-million units in the first quarter of 2020, a 12,3% decline from the first quarter of 2019, according to preliminary results by Gartner. After three consecutive quarters of growth, the worldwide PC market experienced its sharpest...

Like every other pandemic that the world has experienced in the past, coronavirus will eventually come to an end. It will be defeated, and life return to normal. But it will teach us an important lesson: the need to invest in health infrastructure across the world,...

Ongoing quarantine and lockdown measures are driving a rapid growth of phishing attacks with websites that imitate online shopping and streaming platforms. Kaspersky experts have compared the numbers for Q1 2019 with the same period this year, and found that the share...

The Covid-19 pandemic and resulting lockdown has exposed weaknesses in many organisations' workforce management practices. While the unique circumstances forced companies to quickly embrace remote working, many were completely unprepared to manage users in their...

As the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, Americans say the greatest international threat to the well-being of their country is the spread of infectious diseases. According to a new Pew Research Centre report, nearly all US adults (98%) say this is at least a minor...

The African Energy Chamber has welcomed the deal struck by OPEC and OPEC+ Member countries on a deal to cut production and maintain market stability. On Easter Sunday (12 April 2020), OPEC and OPEC+ member countries decided to cut oil production by 9,7-million barrels...