Unconnected accountants waste 15 hours a week

South African accountants could save up to three hours of work a day by using cloud technology. This is according to new research from Xero, in partnership with World Wide Worx, which shows that most (57%) accountants using cloud spend less than an hour a day on...

More M&A activity expected in African TMT market

TMT (telecom, media and technology) infrastructure mergers, acquisitions and fundraising in Africa is predicted to continue growing in 2019. Investment news provider TMT Finance predicts that transactions for the year will exceed $10-billion, due to increasing...

SA users still not as safe online as they could be

Many internet users in South Africa are still not doing enough to safeguard themselves online. This is one of the findings of a YouGov study commissioned by Google and conducted among 1 005 internet users in the country, which shows that 53% of respondents have...

The road to long-term sustainability

Although corporate teams responsible for these efforts still struggle with funding and data, a majority of large companies have set public-facing sustainability targets — goals that are driving the adoption of innovative strategies and technologies, and shifting...

Metrofibre targets Afrikaans users with fast Internet

Metrofibre Networx (MFN) has launched Aitsa.com, an ISP that will focus on providing connectivity (fibre and ADSL) services to the Afrikaans market. According to the head of Aitsa.com Cornelius Jansen van Rensburg, the ISP is the most recent initiative of MetroFibre...

Facebook gets behind Safer Internet Day

Facebook is supporting Safer Internet Day today (5 February) with a campaign spanning 15-plus African countries. Aligning with the Safer Internet Day call to action – “Together for a better internet” – by joining hands with more than 20...