Turning genuine purchases into revenue. Entersekt, which positions itself as a global leader in digital banking fraud prevention and online payment security, today announced enhancements to its 3-D Secure (3DS) offering to help merchants and issuers turn more genuine purchases into revenue ahead of the holiday shopping peak. When authentication gets stuck, the shopper who…
Copenhagen/Geneva/New York — An agreement announced today will cut the price of the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine by approximately 40 per cent. The deal, executed by UNICEF and financially backed by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is expected to generate around US$50 million in savings between 2027 and 2029. As demand for malaria vaccines grows, this could…
The Horn’s proliferating diplomatic appointments have done little to bolster African influence amid new Middle Eastern alliances. In September, Ansarullah (the Houthis) took control of the Bab al-Mandab Strait, shattering the assumption that the insurgency was confined to northern Yemen. The group is now at the epicentre of the Middle East conflict and is the…
African tech startups collectively secured $582,808,000 in funding during the third quarter of 2026. This significant capital injection was distributed among 58 different startups across the continent. The period from July to September 2026 emerged as the most successful quarter of the year so far for the African tech ecosystem, indicating a potential strengthening of…
P3 is designed to integrate into an organisation’s existing card-issuance environment. (Image source: 123RF) Barnes Smart Solutions, a specialist provider of payment-card technology, is continuing to enhance its P3 EMV Data Preparation solution to meet evolving security standards, cryptographic requirements and card-issuance models. P3 is a secure EMV data-preparation platform developed, sold and supported by…
Cyber security defends the systems, cyber compliance proves it. An organisation can have every control in place and still fail an audit. The firewall is running, the laptops are patched, staff have sat through the training and the penetration test came back clean. Then a regulator asks for the written policy, the date it was…
David Ellison, CEO of Paramount Skydance, speaks during the Paramount Pictures presentation at CinemaCon, the official convention of Cinema United, in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 16, 2026. Caroline Brehman | Reuters A new movie every 11 days? That’s what Paramount’s David Ellison is promising after clearing a path this week for his company’s acquisition of…
Companies and governments are increasingly waking up to the fact that the future of warfare isn’t just in the skies, but also on the ocean floor. Nations and corporations alike are devoting attention as well as piles of cash to new technologies designed for underwater use, as concerns grow about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure…
Alexander Zverev dispatched Ben Shelton in four sets to win the U.S. Open men’s singles title on Sunday, the second Grand Slam win for the German after he finally broke through at the French Open earlier this year. The No. 1 seed in a Grand Slam for the first time, Zverev capitalized on Shelton’s shaky…
US President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on Aug. 24, 2026. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images The U.S. struck a deal with Venezuela to get majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of oil reserves as the war with Iran roils the global…
