Adapt IT positions for growth

JSE-listed Adapt IT has announced results for the financial year ended 30 June 2019. “While the results for the year under review showed moderate top-line growth, I am pleased to say that in a year of global macro-economic challenges, Adapt IT made great strides in...

Collaboration critical for African energy finance

In order to incentivise banks and financers to start funding small to medium size businesses and/or small to medium size oil and gas companies, governments need to start understanding that collaboration is critical. This is the word from Mtho Xulu, president of the...

Consumer demand for premium monitors is up

Total distribution sales of desktop monitors in West Europe (WE) were down in August, mainly as a result of weak sales to business channels. However, sales to retail and consumer etail were up, according to data published by Context. Overall sales of desktop monitors...

PC market continues to grow – IDC

Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs, comprised of desktops, notebooks, and workstations, reached 70,4-million units in the third quarter of 2019 (3Q19), according to preliminary results from IDC. Demand in the commercial segment combined with trade tensions between...

Integrated Resource Plan to be gazetted ‘within days’

Delivering a keynote address at the Africa Oil & Power event in Cape Town, South Africa’s Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe announced that the country’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) would be concluded within days. “By...

Windows 10 refresh drives modest PC growth

Worldwide PC shipments showed a modest increase with 1,1% growth in the third quarter of 2019, according to preliminary results by Gartner. Shipments totaled 68-million units in the third quarter of 2019, up from 67-million units in the third quarter of 2018....