Financial assets rise, but wealth gap widens

South Africa saw strong growth in financial assets in 2019. In fact, the world had a bumper year in 2019, with growth financial increasing by close to 10% – a trend that continued into the first six months of 2020. These are findings from the eleventh edition of...

Black Friday could look very different this year

The knock-on effects of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown are set to drive a very different a Black Friday in November this year – which could good news for South Africans saving their depleted available spend for bargains that will yield great value. With...

Liquid Telecom adds Cyber Risk Aware to new security unit

Cyber security awareness platform Cyber Risk Aware has been selected as the security awareness education and phishing simulation solution for the newly-unveiled cyber security unit within Liquid Telecom. Cyber Risk Aware’s solution has been curated to help...

Mixed results for backup appliances

The EMEA purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) market rose in value 11,1% year on year to $320,9-million in the second quarter of 2020, according to International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker. Total EMEA...

Digitalisation set to transform transport industry

Kathy Gibson reports from virtual Huawei Connect – Digital transformation has a lot to offer the transport industry in creating a comprehensive ecosystem to ease the movement of people and goods. This was the overriding message from the Huawei Transportation...

Huawei doubles down on mobile ecosystem development

Kathy Gibson reports from virtual Huawei Connect – Having been excluded from pre-loading many US-built applications and services on its mobile devices, Huawei has made quick progress in building its own ecosystem. Zhang Ping’an, president: consumer cloud...