Nedbank opens SA’s first solar branch

Nedbank has launched South Africa’s first fully solar-powered branch in Mncwasa, near Mthatha in the Eastern Cape. In what is a first-to-market in the financial sector, the Nedbank solar-powered branch is aimed at providing convenient banking solutions to a...
How to survive the digital trough

How to survive the digital trough

Kathy Gibson at Gartner Symposium, Cape Town — Digital dexterity, based on network effect technologies running on a digital platform will help organisations make it through the looming trough of depression facing digital transformation. Executives are frustrated...

Millions at risk from malware in Avast

A major new cybersecurity threat – hidden inside a popular PC maintenance product from a company that also supplies security programs – could affect millions of users worldwide. According to Cisco Talos, the cybersecurity research team at Cisco, attackers have...

How is the telco business model changing?

The telecommunications industry is facing a host of new challenges as customer expectations rise and the competition, new and old, piles on the pressure. Telcos seeking to respond to these challenges face a slew of bewildering trends and high levels of uncertainty....

Is South Africa the next Brazil?

South Africa bears increasingly striking similarities — in a bad way — to Brazil, says Martyn Davies, MD of Emerging Markets & Africa at Deloitte. Davies says that just a few years ago both were considered first-tier emerging market economies...

Tudortech expands WD’s consumer focus

Western Digital aims to grow its market share in South Africa while increasing the availability of its storage and memory devices range with the appointment of Tudortech as an official distributor. Tudortech is a South African-based sales, marketing and distribution...