SWIFT has successfully shown that Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and tokenised assets can move seamlessly on existing financial infrastructure - a major milestone towards enabling their smooth integration into the international financial ecosystem. The...

The Gauteng Provincial Government, the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and the SA SME Fund have launched the SMME Crisis Partnership Fund, a R300-million debt fund for small businesses based in Gauteng townships. There are more than 2-million formal and...

Leveraging technology in the fight against AIDS, non-profit organisation Shout-It-Now, has launched the world's most advanced HIV testing technology in South Africa. Currently piloting in the Ekurhuleni area, the Test and Treat mobile vehicles are a community-based...

Kaspersky Lab has reported a large-scale distribution campaign of the Trojan Asacub threatening more than 40 000 users daily. Asacub is primarily aimed at Russian users, since the cybercriminals specifically target clients of a major Russian bank, but the Trojan also...

The performance highlights of the top 25 publicly traded global technology companies by market cap (Mcap) for the quarter ended June 30, have been analysed in the latest research from GlobalData, revealing a number of interesting insights. There were two new entrants...

Kathy Gibson at ITU Telecom World in Durban - The fourth industrial revolution is fast becoming reality in an increasingly-digitised world. But the digital divide is still a reality, and a danger that needs to be guarded against. The divide is no longer simply between...

In a country as vast as South Africa, where transport by road is the norm, it's imperative that organisations manage their vehicle fleets effectively. Today, fleet management goes well beyond the traditional realms of vehicle financing and maintenance to include...

A recent survey by Gartner reveals that saving time and money are the top reasons why consumers would use artificial intelligence (AI). "AI is among the technologies that consumers consider using for tangible and more 'serious' benefits, as opposed to socialising,...

Currency weakness amid emerging market turmoil and disappointing domestic growth outcomes are set to feature prominently in this month's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) at the South African Reserve Bank (SARB). This is according to Maura Feddersen, economist at...

As if 20 hours in an aeroplane was not enough, the South African team at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) in Japan faced a typhoon and two earthquakes. The South African team consisted of Tian Cilliers (Stellenbosch High School), Ralph McDougall (Curro...