Forty-three of the country's leading scholars and scientists have been inaugurated as Members of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf). New members are elected each year by the full existing membership in recognition of scholarly achievement and are drawn...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a commitment of up to $120-million to accelerate access to the investigational antiviral drug molnupiravir for lower-income countries as part of its Covid-19 response effort. The funding will be allocated based on...

Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Connect in Shanghai - HSBC is a 15-year old bank, with aspirations to be a world-leading financial services institution. But it needs to offer new and innovative services through new channels if it wants to survive and thrive. "Going...

Telkom today welcomed a Labour Court ruling against the Communication Workers Union (CWU) which described the union as "confrontational", "obstructionist" and noted that the CWU had withheld key facts from its founding affidavit. The judgement relates to an urgent...

Cybercriminals are using insiders to gain access to telecommunications networks and subscriber data, recruiting disaffected employees through underground channels or blackmailing staff using compromising information gathered from open sources. This is according to a...

MTN South Africa has confirmed that former Telkom chief marketing officer, Enzo Scarcella, is joining the company as its new Chief Operating Officer, effective 01 December 2016. In a statement released today, MTN says Scarcella started his career at the organisation...

In the past, South Africa attracted significant foreign direct investment (FDI) as global companies saw the country as a gateway to Africa, and a key territory for commodity export. This trend has now come to an end. This is the view of Francois van der Merwe, head of...

While many European companies are embracing the move to the Cloud, nearly half are struggling, wrestling with increases in Cloud integration costs and data silos according to a new study sponsored by Oracle. A key reason: more than 60% of a company's overall IT spend...

The decline of the worldwide tablet market is set to continue for the remainder of 2016 as year-over-year growth reaches an all-time low of -11.5% and shipments of 183.4 million units, according to forecast data from IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. Positive...

At the beginning of the European summer, Kaspersky Lab assisted in the arrest of suspects that were part of the Lurk gang, which allegedly stole more than $45-million from a number of companies and banks in Russia. It was the largest financial cybercrime group to be...