May 12, 2017
Maura Feddersen, economist: financial risk management at KPMG in South Africa, lays to rest four common misconceptions about South Africa’s interest rate policy Unsurprisingly, South Africans keep a close eye on the outlook for interest rates. Local consumers are...
May 12, 2017
A new video on demand (VOD) player, JustFlicks, has launched in South Africa, targeting the mass market with the largest catalogue of titles at an affordable price. The technical platform for JustFlicks was developed last year. Recent approval from the Film &...
May 12, 2017
Telkom expects its earnings to be higher for the financial year ended 31 March, according to trading statement from the company. The prior year’s reported earnings were impacted by voluntary severance packages (VSPs) and voluntarily early retirement packages (VERPs)...
May 11, 2017
Stewart van Graan is joining the board of Altron as a non-executive director. Van Graan retired from Dell last month, having worked for the PC vendor for the last 14 years and becoming Enterprise Systems vice-president for EMEA and emerging markets. This portfolio...
May 11, 2017
Kathy Gibson at IDC’s CIO Summit in Johannesburg – Forecasts for 2017 have been affected by turmoil in South Africa and the world at large, and CIOs may need to reconsider what they can expect to see in the industry this year. Business confidence had dropped before...
May 11, 2017
Kathy Gibson at IDC’s CIO Summit in Johannesburg – Blockchain goes way beyond bitcoin, and some pundits are calling it the future of the Internet. It is certainly a reality, says Mike Rosen, vice-president: research strategic architecture at IDC. In South Africa,...
