Mergers, acquisitions grow in SSA

Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today released the quarterly investment banking analysis for the sub-Saharan Africa region. According to estimates from Thomson Reuters / Freeman Consulting,...

Microsoft BizSpark aids start-ups

With unemployment breaking past 26% in South Africa, the need for job creation to stem the tide of poverty has become a stark reality. The reality being that out of 36-million employable South Africans, only 15,5-million have a job. According to statistics for 2014...

New appointment for EMC Southern Africa

EMC Southern Africa has appointed Rudi van Rensburg as Head of XtremIO for Africa. EMC’s XtremIO product line fully capitalises flash technology and enables the data centre of the future. Van Rensburg joined EMC Southern Africa in April 2008 as channel sales lead and...

Integrat rebrands as InTarget

Leading mobile services aggregator Integrat is now InTarget after completing a rebranding exercise that will see it better-positioned to explore opportunities as a diversified mobile advertising and related solutions provider. As one of South Africa’s most...

Foster Melliar, iSolve Learning merge

iSolve Business Solutions, a Microsoft Gold Partner, has acquired Foster Melliar, a pillar in the South African IT Best Practice Community. iSolve’s Learning Solutions division has merged with Foster Melliar. Both companies are subsidiaries of the Morvest Group. The...

Infor, HCL Technologies enter partnership

Infor, the industry cloud company, has announced a strategic partnership with leading global IT services company, HCL Technologies. This collaboration will help to significantly expand implementation, development and support resources for Infor customers across all...