South Africans optimistic on IoT

Vodafone has released the South African findings of its fifth annual IoT Barometer Report — a leading global survey of business sentiment regarding investment and innovation in the Internet of Things. The IoT Barometer research surveyed 1 278 respondents in 13...

Data highlights SA’s financial stress points

Analytics can help to understand where South Africans are experiencing financial stress, and suggest the interventions that can help them. Experian today launched its Consumer Default Index (CDI), which shows that R13,6-billion in consumer debt value across home loan,...

Young job seekers shop around

Despite a constricted job market, educated twenty-something South Africans seem to hold the cards when it comes to employer selection, according to Careers24’s third quarter statistics. Says Marc Privett, head of Product and Customer Insights at Careers24:...

VMware, SAP partner on IoT platform

VMware has announced a collaboration with SAP, aiming to create an integrated Internet of Things (IoT) solution that supports the implementation and management of IoT use cases across devices, infrastructure, edge, cloud and application domains. The goal is to enable...

SA expats look to financial emigration

Recent changes to the taxation of foreign income earned by South Africans living and working abroad permanently or on long term contracts have shone the light on financial emigration. Financial emigration is a formal process with the South African Reserve Bank (SARB)...

Fujitsu to build Japan’s fastest supercomputer

Fujitsu will build the fastest supercomputer in Japan, the AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure (ABCI) for the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). Included in the ABCI configuration will be Fujitsu’s latest x86 servers, the...