The number of countries with central banks working on a central bank digital currency (CBDC) has increased from 35 in 2020 to 105 this year. This represents a 200% increase in two years, according to analysis by BanklessTimes.com. Jonathan Merry, CEO of BanklessTimes,...

With the Covid-19 pandemic delaying meningitis vaccination campaigns for more than 50 million children in Africa, the region is at a heightened risk of outbreaks of meningitis type A, which has nearly been eliminated on the continent. In a race against time, the World...

US president Donald Trump is the most followed world leader on Twitter, with 52-million followers on his @realDonaldTrump account which has more than doubled since taking office on 20 January 2017. According to the newly released 2018 Twiplomacy study by BCW, Trump...

Facebook faces a £500 000.00 (R8,9-million) for breaching data privacy from The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's independent regulator for data protection and information rights law. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has published a detailed...

During the second three months of 2018, Kaspersky Lab researchers observed an active landscape of advanced persistent threat (APT) operations, based mainly in Asia and involving both well-known and less familiar threat actors. A number of groups targeted or timed...

Elon Musk's "kid-size submarine" may have been too late to contribute to the rescue of 12 children and their soccer coach who were trapped in a Thai cave, but the technology could be useful in the future. SpaceX engineers worked through the weekend to design, build...

South Africans still don't save enough and current economic conditions in the country mean that it is only going to get harder to save for the future. This is according to Old Mutual Investment Group Economic Strategist, Rian le Roux, who said that the stagnant...

Small businesses will be critical to South Africa in the 4th industrial revolution, while access to information will revolutionise education. These are some of the highlights from panel discussion debating: "Is South Africa Ready for the 4th Industrial Revolution?"...

South African fintech startup walletdoc has introduced a new way for businesses to collect more money from customers using easy and secure online credit and debit card payments on invoices and statements. Leonard Shenker, joint CEO of walletdoc, comments: "Consumers...

Barclays Africa Group has officially been renamed Absa Group and started trading under its new name and new share code (ABG) on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange today. The name change marks the start of a new era for the group as a standalone African group with a new...