by Dianne Bayley | Feb 26, 2020 | Innovation
Using a machine-learning algorithm, MIT researchers have identified a powerful new antibiotic compound. In laboratory tests, the drug killed many of the world’s most problematic disease-causing bacteria, including some strains that are resistant to all known...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 26, 2020 | Featured Articles, Features
In Part 3, the final article this three-part series, Justine Sweet, Environmental author who consults on content for LexisNexis South Africa’s Lexis Library, Lexis GRC and Lexis Assure solutions, talks big business taking notice. A recent PWC survey ranked climate...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 25, 2020 | Fintech
There’s a term in psychology and science fiction that describes when technology advances too fast for the individual to understand or respond to it: Technoshock, writes Swami Natarajan Saas Sales Dev & Strategy Leader – Oracle ECEMEA. All industries are currently...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 25, 2020 | Sustainability
When it comes to creating and preserving wealth, property has always been the asset class of choice. Today about 49% of the world’s wealth is held in property, but it is out of reach for most people. This is why Migrate Wealth has made it its mission to give more...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 25, 2020 | Innovation
Tobacco company Philip Morris South Africa (PMSA) has welcomed President Ramaphosa’s commitment, at the State of the Nation Address, to extract the greatest benefit from revolutionary technology changes. PMSA MD, Marcelo Nico says: “The President is right that there...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 24, 2020 | Security and Legal
Business operates in a time of unprecedented volatility across economic, social, technology and political trends, writes Terence Williams, CEO of Aon South Africa, and as these trends evolve, business leaders can no longer rely on traditional business formulas for...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 24, 2020 | Sustainability
President Cyril Ramaphosa highlighted the urgency of South Africa’s youth unemployment crisis in his State of the Nation Address, promising a wide range of programmes to help put young people in work, notes Yolandi Esterhuizen, registered tax practitioner &...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 23, 2020 | Workplace 2020
The fire that swept the Bank of Lisbon building in September 2018, killing three firefighters, could be the catalyst for a new generation of technologies that transforms record-keeping and service delivery at provincial and national government departments across the...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 19, 2020 | Security and Legal
By Kathy Gibson, IT-Online – Africa is rapidly becoming more connected, more mobile and more tech-savvy – but this is opening the continent up to more cybercrime than ever before. “When you look at cyber-security in an African context, it is a ticking time bomb,” says...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 19, 2020 | Security and Legal
While the world attempts to take control over the spread of the Covid-19 and tries to contain, eliminate and prevent it from spreading, hackers around the globe have found the new strain of novel coronavirus serving them well as an enabler for their activities. Check...
