Author: Percival Soko

Barcodes in South Africa are hugely important in our consumer world for the automated identification and capture of data and information. But these important little things are hardly ever the highpoint of the design of product packaging and are often completely ignored. You might think – how about we add some colour to brighten it up? Which at first glance might be a good idea, but be warned! While a cute colour combination might look nice, some can have a very negative impact on the legibility of the barcode and might even render them completely unscannable. These errors could not…

FNB, one of the five biggest banks in the country, has declared that it’s suspending its services to the crypto exchanges. This decision was announced through the letter quoted by a South African tech news platform MyBroadband. Cryptos taking the lead in finances Cryptocurrencies have become the most popular and revolutionary entities in the financial world. Since 2008 and the birth of blockchain, this ‘democratized’ form of currency has slowly, but firmly, entered many industries and even taken leading roles. The most notable example here is a crypto-based investment and high volatility of Bitcoin. Besides being one of the most…