E-commerce key to bolstering economic growth

Entrepreneurship and SMMEs are the catalyst to achieving economic growth and development in South Africa, and their advancement has been prioritised by government. Kevin Tucker, founder of PriceCheck, maintains that the growing local e-commerce industry presents a...

Vox commits R550m to bolster strategy

Vox has announced that its shareholders have approved R550m investment earmarked to enable the company to prioritise three key areas of the business According to Jacques du Toit, CEO of Vox, the investment will be directed into extending the Vox fibre rollout through...
True cost of the renewables standoff

True cost of the renewables standoff

Eskom’s announcement in July 2016 that it would not sign any independent power producers onto the South African power grid threw a booming renewables sector into disarray. This is according to JCRA, a financial risk consultancy, which has released a paper in...

OVH aims to buy out VMware’s vCloud Air

OVH, a global hyper-scale cloud provider, intends to acquire the vCloud Air business from VMware, in a transaction that should be finalised this year. vCloud Air is VMware’s cloud offering based on the software-driven data centre and is designed specifically to...

Trump signs away users’ privacy protection

US president Donald Trump has signed a congressional resolution to overturn Internet privacy protection. This means service providers will have far greater latitude to sell customers’ online information. The protections were approved just last October and...

Shock absorber, flotation mooted for iPhone

Apple has patented bumpers that pop out to cushion the impact when an iPhone is dropped. These shock absorbers will also allow the device to float. The newly-patented technology uses sensor that can detect when the device falls, calculating the height and velocity of...