Tablet sales slide as detachables grow

Worldwide tablet shipments are expected to decline by 12% in 2016, rounding out the year at 182,3-million shipments, according to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. IDC expects the market to rebound in 2018...

Enterprise slowdown impacts server revenue

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, vendor revenue in the worldwide server market declined 7% year over year to $12,5-billion in the third quarter of 2016 (3Q16). Overall server market growth had recently slowed in...

Efficient systems make it easy to pay tax

Economies around the world continue to make progress in simplifying and reducing the burden of tax compliance on business. This is according to the latest edition of Paying Taxes 2017, a report by the World Bank Group and PwC, finds that the Total Tax rate decreased...

Travellers are easy targets for cyber-crooks

Consumers, including holiday makers and business travellers, conduct a lot of financial operations online when abroad, putting themselves at risk when they are not properly protected. Research from Kaspersky Lab discovered that 48% of South African travellers believe...

Just how sticky is SA’s credit situation?

There is no doubt that a downgrade to “junk status” will negatively impact South Africa’s economy, businesses and consumers. While many brace themselves for the worst, Old Mutual Multi-Managers investment strategist Izak Odendaal offers an honest but...

Innovative research raises $9m for Rwanda

In North America and Europe, substantial research has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of various communication strategies for improving the compliance of taxpayers. For the first time, a similar study has been carried out in Africa, generating important...