Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

With a proliferation of data emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic, data visualisation offers a fantastic opportunity to present all this information in an easy-to-digest format, and its applications are broad, says SAS Senior Associate Systems Engineer, Melissa Jantjies. In essence, data visualisation is a marriage between science and art. It’s…

Online shopping is now the new normal during the coronavirus pandemic. CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced Facebook Shops, which will make it easier for users to shop without leaving the social network by visiting a business’ Facebook page or Instagram profile, a move that comes as more people turn to e-commerce because of…

The coronavirus pandemic has already disrupted daily life for billions of people, many of whom have been ordered to shelter in place in an effort to slow the virus’s spread. Organizers have in turn had to cancel or postpone many events, including the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), SXSW music festival, and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games.…

Mitsubishi Motors Corp on Tuesday posted an 89% drop in annual operating profit for its weakest performance in three years and skipped the year-end dividend as the coronavirus pandemic added to the Japanese car maker’s profitability woes. Profit came in at 12.8 billion yen ($119.21 million) for the year ended in…

Japan’s Sharp Corp, an Apple Inc supplier, reported a 37% decline in annual operating profit and refrained from releasing an earnings outlook for the current year because of uncertainty over the novel coronavirus impact. Sharp, which makes sensors, camera modules and screens for Apple’s iPhones, said operating profit came in…

Sony Corp will turn its financial arm, Sony Financial Holdings Inc, into a wholly owned unit through a tender offer worth about 400 billion yen ($3.72 billion), the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant said on Tuesday. The deal will allow Sony to strengthen its presence in the fintech field to…

The head of streaming for Disney Kevin Mayer is leaving the Magic Kingdom and headed to TikTok. Kevin Mayer, chair of Walt Disney direct-to-consumer and international, resigned from the company on Monday to become TikTok’s new CEO. Mayer will also become the chief operating officer of TikTok’s owner, ByteDance. RELATED…

As businesses across the country start returning to work, the safety of employees and customers is of paramount importance. Vodacom has created specific digital solutions to support businesses as they navigate their return to work post-lockdown. Businesses will have to make changes to their regular operations in order to open…

Ride-hailing giant Uber announced thousands more layoffs on Monday, the latest round of cuts for a business devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. The company said it was laying off 3,000 workers and shuttering or consolidating 40 offices across the globe, including a large office in San Francisco that would be absorbed by…

Fitbit, which makes fitness-tracking wearables, is one of the many companies that will be shifting supply chain resources to make emergency ventilators. The ventilators will be used to help treat COVID-19 patients and could help bolster the national supply of the medical devices, which have been in need during the…

Africa’s largest mobile network provider, MTN, said yesterday that it had recorded an 11.1% increase in service revenue after normalizing for changes in currency in 21 countries. MTN said the revenue came on the back of double-digit growth in Nigeria and Ghana. Chief executive Rob Shuter said that revenue at…

Sony says that the PlayStation 5 is “on track for launch in this holiday season” despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The company made the announcement as part of its fiscal 2019 earnings release today, where it also reported 14 percent lower gaming revenue year-on-year. Sony put the decline down to lower…

Sony is slowly but surely getting ready for the launch of its PlayStation 5 game console later in 2020 and has announced a new PlayStation Studios brand that it’ll be using for its first-party exclusives going forward as a way to let customers know that a game comes from one of Sony’s…

Google Chrome will soon begin blocking resource-heavy ads in an effort to improve browsing experience and save your phone’s battery and network data. Chrome may be the most-used browser, but it has also historically received the most criticism for being not so good for resource management especially on phones. The ban on resource-heavy ads…

Lyft riders and drivers need to check a few boxes before getting in the car. Lyft announced that users must submit a “Personal Health Certification,” which requires every rider, and driver, to self-certify that they are following Centers for Disease Control and local guidelines related to COVID-19. Riders and drivers must…

With the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown in full effect, Vodacom has put numerous measures in place to protect customers and employees. These include measures that has seen frontline agents now working from home and practicing social distancing as well as stepping up its reliance on TOBi – Vodacom’s chatbot – which…

Luckin Coffee fired its CEO after the Chinese homegrown rival to Starbucks was found to have fabricated sales. Jenny Zhiya Qian was terminated on Monday, along with chief operating officer Jian Lu — the executive whom the company said last month was the architect of the fraud — according to a filing Luckin made…

Michelle Obama has worn a number of hats over the past several years: first lady, film producer, best-selling author. She now adds a new title to her résumé: Netflix documentary star. Michelle Obama’s 2018 memoir, Becoming, sold more copies than any other book published in the U.S. that year, breaking the record after…

Just recently following the coronavirus pandemic Google decided to allow its employees to work from home until the end of 2020 but Twitter has gone all out becoming one of the first companies to implement a work-from-home policy to prevent the the spread of the virus, saying it does not anticipate being…

Uber Technologies Inc is in advanced talks to buy online food delivery company GrubHub Inc in an all-stock deal. The two companies could reach an agreement as soon as this month. Shares of GrubHub jumped about 29% to $60.50, while those of Uber rose 6%. RELATED READING: UBER RECORDS LOSS…