Jun 29, 2016
Spotting an opportunity that sparks an entrepreneurial idea is a dominant driver of startup businesses in South Africa – but they are not creating jobs at the scale and rate South Africa so urgently needs. This is just one of the findings of South Africa’s...
Jun 28, 2016
HP Inc country manager Thibault Dousson, who was due to take up a new EMEA-wide position within the group this week, has resigned and left HP Inc altogether. It was reported earlier this month that Dousson was exchanging his job as South African country manager at HP...
Jun 27, 2016
It won’t be long before humans are competing with robots for jobs. Forrester forecasts that cognitive technologies such as robots, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and automation will replace 7% of US jobs by 2025. A new report details the emerging best...
Jun 24, 2016
E-commerce may be taking the world by storm, but South Africans remain wary of shopping online, with only 3-million making regular use of electronic shopping trollies to meet their daily requirements – but that could be changing. With online purchases expected...
Jun 23, 2016
Strong GDP growth in Africa has masked disappointing productivity. This is according to ICAEW’s latest Economic Insight: Africa Q2 report, which finds that, over the last 15 years, trade and investment have buffered the continent against the global financial...
Jun 22, 2016
The average cost of a data breach for companies surveyed has grown to $4-million, representing a 29% increase since 2013. This is one of the results from a Ponemon Institute study, sponsored by IBM, analysing the financial impact of data breaches to a company’s...
