Foldable phone shipments set to reach 41,5m in 2026

International Data Corporation (IDC) expects worldwide shipments of foldable phones, including flip and fold form factors, to reach 13,5-million units in 2022. This represents an increase of 66,6% over the 8,1-million units shipped in 2021. An updated IDC forecast...

Crypto is on the up in Africa

Despite the global crash in cryptocurrencies, sustained uptake of innovations in non-fungible tokens (NFTs), decentralised finance (DeFi), Web 3.0 and the aetaverse in Africa is convincing investors that early adopters of these technologies are well positioned to...

Shoprite Group almost doubles solar capacity

Over the past 12 months, the Shoprite Group has increased its installed capacity of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems by 82% to 26,606 kWp. The 143 674m2 of solar panels at 62 sites, is equivalent to the size of 20 soccer fields. This is enough to power the equivalent...

Compute, storage cloud infrastructure spend on upward trajectory

Spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared IT environments, increased 22,4% year over year in the second quarter of 2022 (2Q22) to $22,6-billion. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC)...