Digital holiday shopping fraud continues to increase

A significant 17,5% of all global e-commerce transactions – and 7,8% of South African transactions – made between 25 and 29 November were potentially fraudulent, according to findings from TransUnion around global e-commerce fraud trends that occurred...

Notebook revenues still going strong

Notebook revenues through European distribution have continued their impressive performance in the first few weeks of Q4 2021 as organisations look to support the new hybrid workplace and consumer sales are up, according to new data from Context. The latest analysis...

Beware of online shopping delivery scams

Cybersecurity researchers are urging consumers to be on the lookout for delivery scams following Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and in the lead up to the holidays. This comes after Mimecast’s threat hunting team detected malicious emails and spoofed web pages...

Opt-out rate for mobile app tracking to decline by 2023

The opt-out rate for mobile app tracking will decline from 85% in 2021 to 60% by 2023 as consumers gain experience with untargeted ads, according to Gartner. While Apple has added new privacy features in iOS for consumers to manage how they are tracked, marketers must...

Software-defined infrastructure software revenues hit $6,5bn

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Software-Defined Infrastructure Tracker, the worldwide software-defined infrastructure (SDI) software market reached $6,5-billion during the first half of the year in 2021, a 10,7% increase...

Massive growth ahead for mobile money transactions

A new study from Juniper Research has found that the total value of mobile money transactions in emerging markets will exceed $870-billion in 2026, up from $555-billion in 2021; respresenting growth of almost 60%. Mobile money in emerging markets includes...