SA brands could understand customers better

A growing preference among customers to move through the buying journey in their own time using their own preferred channels has given brands a smaller window of time to engage with them. Sales and marketing teams need to work more closely together to better...

Protect the network against IoT threats

EMEA service providers are encouraged to step up their defences against large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) hijacks. The call to arms, from application security experts F5 Networks, comes in the wake of the recent Mirai botnet, which infected hundreds of thousands of...

Opportunities abound for trade in Africa

Cross-border e-commerce offers aggregate growth rates not available in most other retail markets, with cross-border retail volumes are predicted to increase at an annual average rate of 25% between 2015 and 2020 (from $300-billion to $900-billion – twice the...

London tops New York, Tokyo for innovation

London extended its lead over New York and a resurgent Tokyo to be named the world’s most innovative city in 2016-2017 in the 10th annual Innovation Cities Index, released by global innovation agency 2thinknow. The top three cities overcame previous winner...

Cell C responds to CellSAf statement

Cell C has issued the following statement on behalf of Mohammed Hariri, chairman of Cell C and Oger Telecom: The Cell C board has noted the media statement from CellSAf regarding the proposed recapitalisation plan of Cell C. The accusations against the Cell C board...

Free software could cost more …

Free software and applications are easily available to anyone with access to the internet. Some make life convenient and empower productivity. But, according to Brenwin Traill, an IT security expert at Securicom, companies are beginning to see that they aren’t...