Nov 21, 2019
South African consumers are planning to spend 36% more this year than in 2018 during the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales. Consumers plan to spend an average of R3 812 during the sales, and 85% of consumers intend to buy something or would consider it if there is a...
Nov 21, 2019
As ownership of mobile phones, especially smartphones, spreads rapidly across the globe, there are still notable numbers of people in emerging economies who do not own – or even use someone else’s – mobile phone. A Pew Research Centre survey of 11...
Nov 21, 2019
Enterprise customers are accelerating their cloud transformation initiatives. According to Veritas Technologies, over the past year alone, there has been a four-fold increase in the amount of data moving from on-premises environments to the two leading public clouds....
Nov 21, 2019
Government leaders must set a good example to the business community if they want to eliminate corporate corruption, a new study reveals. Financial incentives and criminal punishment will not root out corrupt business practices, but a government culture of honesty,...
Nov 21, 2019
World Television Day, marked globally on 21 November, recognises the medium as a major source of news, information, education and entertainment. As television broadcasting increases its footprint globally, streaming onto multiple portable devices, TV has become an...
Nov 21, 2019
Threats will continue to grow in sophistication and become more targeted, diversifying under the influence of external factors, such as development and propagation of machine learning, technologies for deepfakes development, or tensions around trade routes between...