© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Pump jacks are seen outside the West Siberian city of Kogalym, Russia, January 25, 2016. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) -Oil prices fell on Tuesday, paring earlier gains, as…
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The informal sector makes significant contributions to the national economies of most global South countries. In South Africa it constitutes 15% to 30% of all employment. The informal sector refers to small or unregistered production…
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I spent last week studying the 26,000 words of privacy terms published by eBay and Amazon, trying to extract some straight answers, and comparing them to the privacy terms of other online marketplaces such as…
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The increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) has seen an anticipated parallel rise in calls for AI control, governance and supervision. As a result, industry and regulatory bodies have published several sets of guidelines and…
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© Reuters. By Yasin Ebrahim Investing.com – Oil prices came under pressure Monday, unable to scale the wall of worry over the demand outlook at time when global growth appears to be slowing amid a…
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Kenya is one of the top five beneficiaries of the US-Africa trade initiative, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). It also had the second-highest utilisation rate in 2018 with over 70% of its US…
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It’s now well known that usernames and passwords aren’t enough to securely access online services. A recent study highlighted more than 80% of all hacking-related breaches happen due to compromised and weak credentials, with three…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A gas pump at a petrol station in Seoul June 27, 2011. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak/File Photo By Aaron Sheldrick TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices fell more than 1% on Monday, dropping for…
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The long war in Afghanistan reached a potential watershed on August 6 when Taliban fighters took over Zaranj, a dusty frontier town with a population of some 63,000 on the Afghan-Iranian border. Though geographically and…
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When plants first ventured onto the land, evolving from freshwater-dwelling algae, more than 500 million years ago, they transformed the planet. By drawing carbon dioxide from the air, they cooled Earth, and by eroding rock…
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