Africa’s top start-ups face off in Milan

Africa’s top five tech and digital start-ups – unveiled at U-Start’s conference in Cape Town this March – have jetted off to Milan for the global final of 2014. After a continent-wide hunt, Africa will be represented by the top tier front runners in the tech and...

Jordaan and Uys join investment company

Former FNB CEO Michael Jordaan and Pieter Uys, current Remgro investment executive and previously Vodacom CEO, have become non-executive directors of Invenfin, the venture capital division of investment holding company Remgro. “Both Michael and Pieter are highly...

HP offers mobile enterprise app catalogue

Kathy Gibson at HP World SA, Johannesburg – HP SA has launched the HP Access Catalog, an on-demand mobile content catalogue that allows employees to download applications and digital content across mobile and desktop devices. The Access Catalog lets...

HP debuts hybrid cloud services in SA

Kathy Gibson at HP World SA, Johannesburg – HP has launched a new portfolio of cloud products and services in South Africa that help companies to build, manage and consume workloads in hybrid IT environments. The group plans to invest more than $1-billion over...

Star formation ideas overturned

Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and infrared telescopes, astronomers have made an important advance in the understanding of how clusters of stars come into being. The data show early notions of how star clusters are formed cannot be correct. The...

IT spins complex web of interconnected risks

Cyber risk management professionals need to look beyond their internal IT safeguards to the interconnected risks created by counterparties, outsourced suppliers, supply chains, disruptive technologies, upstream infrastructure and external shocks. This is one of the...