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...

Investors still making money from Bitcoin

The renewed institutional interest in cryptocurrency recently sent Bitcoin surging to a new 12-month high - its price rising above $31 300 in July and putting it on track for its best annual performance since 2020, according to Altindex.com. The latest price jump of...

X marks the spot: Elon Musk unveils new logo for Twitter

Elon Musk unveiled a new logo for Twitter over the weekend. Yesterday (Sunday 23 July), Musk tweeted that he wanted to get rid of the iconic bird logo, and called for submissions for a new one. “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the...

Cryptocurrency threat is alive and well in SA

Kaspersky researchers have detected an unusual malicious campaign that uses a phishing copy of a popular VPN service's website to spread AZORult, a Trojan stealer, under the guise of installers for Windows. The campaign, which kicked off at the end of November 2019...

Gauteng second-worst province for not paying suppliers

The Gauteng Provincial Government is the second highest in the country for not paying suppliers within 30 days, with the Eastern Cape in first position. The amount owed by these two provinces is even higher than the amount owed by the National Departments combined....

Some success in combatting cell phone tower battery thefts

As the theft of batteries from cell phone towers rises, MTN is having some success in recovering stolen properties and having the perpetrators arrested. As many as 143 batteries, worth R1,2-million, were recovered in January 2020. A total of 338 batteries worth...

Africa and the ticking time bomb of cyber-security risk

By Kathy Gibson - Africa is rapidly becoming more connected, more mobile and more tech-savvy - but this is opening the continent up to more cybercrime than ever before. "When you look at cyber-security in an African context, it is a ticking time bomb," says Anna...

Tips for Tito …

Rowan Burger, Momentum Investments head of client strategy, offers some advice for Finance Minister Tito Mboweni when he presents his Budget Speech later this week. We have a new Finance Minister and hopefully new energy in government. It is time for the Legislators...

Words of advice for Nedbank customers affected by security breach

Nedbank last week warned customers - both active and no longer active - that their personal information had potentially been compromised due to a breach at a third-party service provider. At the same time, it stated that its own systems, as well as the passwords an...

Mustek issues trading statement

Mustek has issued a trading statement, alerting shareholders to a change in earnings compared to last year. For the six months ended 31 December 2019, Mustek's headline earnings per share is expected to be between 5% and 15% higher than the previous corresponding...

Banks look to AI for KYC compliance

The Middle East and Africa's banking and finance industry spent $12,68-billion on information and communications technology (ICT) in 2019, according to the latest insights from International Data Corporation (IDC). The global technology research, consulting, and...

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