‘Outrageous’ top-up offer from OpenWeb

OpenWeb has announced an immediate reduction in top-up pricing for its Rain Network LTE mobile offering. Effective immediately, top-ups will cost R10 per Gig and can be purchased on demand and will be effective for 30 days from the date of purchase. In addition, the...

Windfall for Datatec shareholders

The completion of the sale by Datatec of its Westcon-Comstor business in North America and Latin America and of 10% of the remaining part of Westcon to Synnex could see a major windfall for shareholders. In a statement, the company says the proceeds of the transaction...

Liquid Telecom offers MS cloud

Liquid Telecom has partnered with Microsoft through the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) programme to deliver scalable and secure cloud services across Africa. As an official CSP partner, Liquid Telecom will for the first time serve businesses of all sizes in Africa with...

Wearables on upward trajectory

The worldwide wearables market was once again graced with positive growth as shipments grew 10,3% year over year, reaching 26,3-million during the second quarter of 2017 (2Q17), according to IDC. The quarter also marked a turning point in the market as basic wearables...
Investment in digital pays off

Investment in digital pays off

Business leaders who have completed digital transformation projects across their entire organisation report significant increases in employee engagement compared to those with more limited initiatives. In a new SAP study, 64% of executives with broad-ranging digital...

HPE, Micro Focus merger complete

The merger of Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) software business has been completed, creating the seventh-largest pure-play enterprise software company in the world. Chris Hsu, formerly chief operating officer of HPE and executive...