Dec 12, 2017
According to a new research report from the leading IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the market for medication compliance monitoring solutions is still in an early stage with an estimated 138 000 connected devices in use in EU28+2 at the end of 2016. However, there are...
Dec 12, 2017
South Africa’s economy continues to feel the pressure of recent credit rating downgrades and further potential downgrades looming in the future. “We spoke about how tough this year was going to be at the 2017 IDC Predictions event we hosted at the end of...
Dec 12, 2017
Zimbabwe budget 2018 aims to lure foreign direct investors, according to this analysis by Alisa Strobel, senior economist: sub-Saharan Africa, at IHS Markit. Years of economic mismanagement have led to a collapse in domestic demand in combination with a struggling...
Dec 12, 2017
The full acquisition of 3G Mobile by Blue Label subsidiary The Prepaid Company (TPC) has been approved by the Competition Tribunal. In August 2017, TPC acquired 47,37% of 3G for R900 million. It can now acquire the remaining 52,63% for a price of R1-billion. This...
Dec 11, 2017
The huge number of shares traded in EOH — and the subsequent sharp drop in the share price — have been tracked to a forced sale of shares by financial institutions against equity financed transactions to various individual shareholders,including two EOH...
Dec 11, 2017
Africa’s first hyperscale data centre, Teraco’s JB2-Bredell, will be completed by the end of 2017 — just one year after the build started. The Bredell Hyperscale Data Centre Facility located in Bredell features over 24 MW of power and 6000m² of...
