Ongoing lockdowns to drive double-digit PC growth

According to research by International Data Corporation (IDC), shipments of EMEA traditional PCs (a combination of desktops, notebooks, and workstations) will total 82,1-million in 2020, a 12,7% year-on-year YoY growth. With the impact of the global pandemic not...

Innovation is vital, but companies don’t enable it

As many as 88% of innovation leaders agree that successful organisations encourage innovation at every level and within every team – but only 16% of companies include “empowering individuals” as an essential part of their corporate culture. This is...

Global smartphone sales in Q3 decline

Worldwide smartphone sales to end-users totaled 366-million units in the third quarter of 2020, down 5,7% from the third quarter of 2019, according to Gartner. Overall global mobile phone sales to end users totaled 401-million units, a decline of 8,7% year-over-year....

Rebound for large-format, industrial printers

New results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Industrial Printer Tracker show that all segments of the industrial printer market began to recover from the Covid-19 crisis in the third quarter (3Q20). “After consecutive quarters of...

Online comes to the fore on Black Friday

While claims of a more digital world have been rife for some time now, on the back of Covid-19 and the widespread lockdown response to the pandemic, few events have served to confirm this shift to digital consumption as clearly as the Black Friday weekend....

Independent SMEs saw 46% Black Friday improvement

In proprietary data released by South African payments provider Yoco, small businesses experienced a 46% increase in card transaction volume on Black Friday compared to the average volume processed on a Friday after pay day. In the build-up to Black Friday this year,...