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Accounting 3.0: Adapt to grow – the changing role of the accountant
Jennifer Warawa, EVP of Partners, Accountants & Alliances at Sage, discusses the evolution of accountants from number-crunchers and tax-filers to drivers of business success Businesses today want more from their accountants. Business strategy, growth planning and future vertical industry trends…
Women in Gaming: Sportingbet’s Siddiqa Samsoodien on defying discrimination while smiling
As part of South Africa’s Women’s Month, Clarion Gaming continues to advance the role of women in the industry across the region and internationally with vital insights from some of the industry’s key female figures ahead of this year’s ICE…
Apple set to launch self-driving car
Cupertino-based company Apple is rumoured to be working on a self-driving car. The Apple Car may roll out between 2023 and 2025, predicts an analyst, as the company drives towards its next trillion, reports MacRumors. Apple will earn its two…
ESET launches a new line of endpoint security solutions
Cybersecurity research and endpoint security company, ESET announced the launch of its new line of endpoint security solutions designed to provide tools for prevention and management of cyber risks on a global scale. ESET is raising its game with the…
Navigating the complexity of Oracle Cloud migrations
One of today’s biggest boardroom frustrations goes something like this: ‘we have all this data about our customers and our business, but we can’t seem to get it into a usable structure… we just can’t seem to draw out valuable…
Five ways you can create the perfect password and why you should
Stories of people being hacked online are becoming more common these days. Many people have had their accounts, whether Facebook or Twitter, compromised. Avoiding these kinds of hacks means that one needs to use stronger passwords, but this won’t keep you…
Criminals target fax machines to hijack networks and spread malware
New research from Check Point, a provider of cyber-security solutions globally, has shown how organisations and individuals could be hacked via their fax machines, using newly discovered vulnerabilities in the communication protocols used in tens of millions of fax devices…
Google employees protest censored search engine For China
About a thousand Google employees have signed a letter protesting the company’s efforts to build a censored version of its search engine in China, as reported by The New York Times. The employees are demanding more transparency so they can…
F5 appoints David Helfer as Senior Vice President for EMEA Sales
F5 Networks has announced the appointment of David Helfer as its new Senior Vice President of Sales for the UK, Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). A veteran leader of high-performance global teams, David has more than 25 years of…
Motorola mimic’s Apple iPhone X
Motorola’s new high-end Moto P30 6.2-inch phone has launched in China, looking uncannily like the Apple iPhone X. Unveiled just hours after press renders of the smartphone appeared online, Motorola has been criticised for revealing a “shameless” copy of the…
Black Hat: Protecting Industrial Control System
Industrial Control System (ICS) security was ramped up at Black Hat USA – with packed sessions ranging from specific attacks to vulnerable hardware – all with the aim of protecting critical infrastructure, whose security shortcomings so frequently hit the headlines…
Apple got hacked by a teenager, but customer data is safe
An Australian teenager from Melbourne pleaded guilty to hacking into Apple’s computer mainframe from his home several times throughout a year. Apple confirmed on Friday that no customer data was compromised, despite the teen having downloaded internal files and accessing…
Over one third of all phishing attacks target customers in the financial sector
In the second quarter of 2018, Kaspersky Lab’s anti-phishing technologies prevented over 107 million attempts to visit phishing pages, of which 35.7% were related to financial services and targeting customers through fake banking or payment pages. The IT sector was…
Startups need cyber insurance too
It’s too easy for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to dismiss cybercrime, because they view themselves as too small to be attractive targets for criminals. However, this is not the case. Simon Campbell-Young, CEO of MyCybercare, says that in reality,…
How new technology has boosted female entrepreneurship
Economic opportunities for women have expanded globally, but significant obstacles to gender equality ‒ including the gender pay gap ‒ still remain. Platforms like Airbnb are creating new opportunities for enterprising women, enabling them to open their homes to guests…
Nigeria’s Publiseer accepted into Venture Incubation Programme
Nigeria’s digital publishing company, Publiseer has been accepted into the Venture Incubation Programme Winter School 2018. The programme will take place at Solution Space, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, in Cape Town, from 3 September 2018 to…
