VC funding above $2trn since 2020
Although global venture capital (VC) funding activity significantly slowed down after reaching a peak in 2021, companies and startups still raised close to $550-billion over the past two years, pushing the five-year total to impressive highs. According to data...
Webb reveals the smallest asteroids yet found
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope now includes asteroids on its list of objects studied and secrets revealed. A team led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge repurposed Webb’s observations of a distant star to reveal a...
GenAI becomes a priority in healthcare, life sciences budgets
Over half of healthcare and life sciences organisations in Asia/Pacific are planning to have dedicated budgets for GenAI projects for timely investments, according to a recent IDC report, GenAI in Healthcare and Life Sciences: Current Trends and Future Potential in...
Commercial display market set to reach $78bn
The global commercial display market size is anticipated to reach $78,48-billion by 2030 and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 6,5% from 2024 to 2030, according to the new report by Grand View Research. As businesses embrace digital technologies to stay competitive...
As hybrid working steps up, CEOs see productivity gains
New research has revealed that nine in 10 CEOs have adopted hybrid working (91%), with three quarters saying this has led to an improvement in productivity (75%) and staff retention (76%). The latest C-suite-focused study, undertaken by International Workplace Group...
Planetary defense will be on hand for 2029 asteroid near-miss
30 years ago, on 16 July 1994, astronomers watched in awe as the first of many pieces of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet slammed into Jupiter with incredible force. The event sparked intense interest in the field of planetary defence as people asked: "Could we do anything...
Multiple scams target Olympics fans
The first in-person Summer Olympics since the lifting of pandemic restrictions is set to begin on 26 July 2024, attracting millions of sports enthusiasts - and cyberthreats. Kaspersky experts have noted a surge in scamming activity surrounding the event, with...
Coastal ‘zoom towns’ lead business growth
Over the past two decades, South Africa's coastal towns have experienced massive development and growth - with over 33% of our population now residing within a 10km radius of our 3 000km shoreline. Where, traditionally, it would have been an older demographic moving...
Robust growth forecast for robot operating systems
The global robot operating system market is expected to reach $1,214-billion by 2030 - growing at a CAGR of 13,9% from 2024 to 2030 - according to a new report by Grand View Research. The robot operating system (ROS) is a comprehensive collection of tools and...
Every third mobile POS payment in 2028 will be made in China
Although mobile POS payments have become widely adopted among tech-savvy consumers worldwide, no country comes even close to China - the world's largest mobile payments market. In 2024, almost 570-million Chinese will use mobile wallets for POS payments - twice the...
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Cybersecurity key for an economic recovery that works for all
With citizens, governments, and businesses more dependent than ever on digital connectivity, one of the most pressing sectoral issues for this decade is cybersecurity. By Mohammed Amin, senior vice-president: Middle East, Turkey and Africa for Dell Technologies While...
Digital security for the new entrepreneur
As South Africa’s entrepreneurial spirit blossoms, digital security is more important than ever, warns Steve Flynn, sales and marketing director at ESET Southern Africa. The pandemic fundamentally changed the working world forever. Not only are more employees working...
Why don’t BRICS relationships extend to the cyber realm?
While informal collectives of ‘friendly’ nations, like the BRICS group, have met several times to discuss ways of co-operating on the global state over the years, these friendships do often have their limits. This is evident where, whether by intention or omission,...
Evolving business environment makes security more complex
With South Africa ranked the sixth most affected country in the world when it comes to cybercrime, companies and consumers must do more to protect themselves from cyber-attacks. Most recently, a new piece of ransomware, which targets healthcare and education and has...
How vendors and attackers are still exploiting FUD
The statistics make for worrying reading. According to the Veeam Data Protection Trends Report 2022, 97% of South African companies experienced an outage due to a cyberattack in the past 12 months. Of those, almost nine in 10 (86%) suffered a ransomware attack. By...
Are your Excel spreadsheets a cybersecurity risk?
The use of spreadsheets in accounting and finance departments has vastly improved data analysis and enabled fast and accurate reporting, computing and information storage. Life without them is almost unthinkable. However, danger lurks within and although the use of...
With growing threats, CISOs change their posture to proactive
Every CISO and IT security professional knows that cyber risks are exploding, with cybercrime syndicates becoming increasingly aggressive and sophisticated. To their credit, security execs are putting out fires and putting mitigation measures in place as fast as they...
Indicators of Behaviour and the Diminishing Value of IOCs
How secure is your organisation if you can only stop attacks that have already been detected in other environments based on Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)? Secure enough, if those were the only attacks you needed to be concerned with. By Cybereason Sales Director for...
The ultimate security pincer movement
Cybersecurity is a battlefield. An alarming one. According to the Allianz Risk Barometer, the risk of a cybersecurity breach ranks higher than supply chain disruption, a natural disaster and even the Covid-19 pandemic. This is a reasonable concern, after all, 93% of...
How businesses can combat ‘quiet quitting’
Managers have seen more changes to their role over the past two years than they did during the last decade. Today their role has a dual purpose: to drive business growth and invest in their employees’ experience. By Zuko Mdwaba, area vice-president at Salesforce South...
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