Shipping transports around 90% of world trade onboard different vessels so maritime safety is critical. Improvements have been significant over the past decade, culminating in the sector reporting a record low number of large ships lost over the past year. However, a...

Businesses play a crucial role in addressing environmental challenges and fostering sustainability. By incorporating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals into their operations, companies can make a positive impact while also gaining rapport with their...

Fintech company Retail Capital has won a silver award at the Global SME Finance Awards for its innovation in funding SMMEs. The funding is aimed at both formal and informal customers with a trading track record of three months or more. Customers receive same-day...

The Commonwealth Litter Programme (Clip), the international science and outreach programme working in partnership with governments, universities, NGOs and communities in countries across the Commonwealth to take action on plastics entering the oceans, has introduced...

ESET researchers have uncovered several high-profile espionage attacks aimed at government and diplomatic entities in Eastern Europe. Analysis shows that these attacks were conducted using a previously unreported cyberespionage platform. The platform is notable for...

JSE-listed Adapt IT has announced results for the financial year ended 30 June 2019. “While the results for the year under review showed moderate top-line growth, I am pleased to say that in a year of global macro-economic challenges, Adapt IT made great strides in...

In order to incentivise banks and financers to start funding small to medium size businesses and/or small to medium size oil and gas companies, governments need to start understanding that collaboration is critical. This is the word from Mtho Xulu, president of the...

Total distribution sales of desktop monitors in West Europe (WE) were down in August, mainly as a result of weak sales to business channels. However, sales to retail and consumer etail were up, according to data published by Context. Overall sales of desktop monitors...

Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs, comprised of desktops, notebooks, and workstations, reached 70,4-million units in the third quarter of 2019 (3Q19), according to preliminary results from IDC. Demand in the commercial segment combined with trade tensions between...

Delivering a keynote address at the Africa Oil & Power event in Cape Town, South Africa's Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe announced that the country's Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) would be concluded within days. "By Wednesday, I am very...