Kalon invests in SA fintech i-Pay

Local venture capital firm Kalon Venture Partners has invested in payment service provider, i-Pay. The conclusion of this deal will foster a rapid up-scale and expansion of the i-Pay business, which facilitates bank-to-bank automated and instant electronic funds...

Security threats to guard against in 2018

In the coming year, the world will see more legitimate software being poisoned by groups targeting wider victim profiles and geographies, with the added advantage that such attacks are extremely hard to spot and mitigate. This is according to Kaspersky Lab’s...

SD-WAN market is a two-horse race

Consolidation and acquisitions are underway in the software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) market as vendors race to include SD-WAN technology in their offerings. Following Cisco’s acquisition of Viptela, VMware carried out its own acquisition of VeloCloud,...

What to do if you’re late with your tax return

24 November 2017 is the most important date on the calendar for taxpayers, as this is when most taxpayers have until to file their annual tax returns. And, each year, more than 2-million taxpayers leave filing their tax returns to the last minute and hope to get them...

Fleischer to leave Samsung SA

Samsung veteran Craige Fleischer, director of integrated mobility Southern Africa, will be leaving the company at the end of December to pursue new business opportunities. “Craige has been with Samsung for six years, during which time he has become synonymous...

Woolies taps online, mobile retail

The face of retail is evolving quickly, with online shopping experiencing exponential growth rates globally. Woolworths has experienced this first-hand with their online clothing sales increasing over 100% between July 2016 and June 2017. “Results such as this...