Tips for preventing payroll identity fraud

Payroll identity fraud is a reality in South Africa. Provincial departments, municipalities and the national departments are just a few of the examples where millions has been lost to ghost employees and other fraudulent payroll activities. Often, the payroll...

Anglo American halves data centre floor space

Anglo American has consolidated three separate data rooms into one smaller, more efficient and easier to monitor data centre. This project has allowed the globally diversified mining business to reduce floor space used at its Marshall Street head office in...

SMBs’ IT spending is set to rocket

Small and medium businesses (SMBs – businesses with less than 1 000 employees) are set to spend $564-billion on IT hardware, software, and services, including business services, in 2016. This amount is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR)...

Planning key for festive season success

The end of year festive season is almost upon us and for many businesses, especially those in the retail sector, this means the start of the peak activity period. In order to realize revenue targets, as well as offer a shopping experience that attracts a loyal...

Barclays, Techstars open fintech applications

Applications have opened for the Barclays Accelerator programme, powered by Techstars, an initiative aimed at uncovering the next M-Pesa or Paypal by working with exceptional fintech entrepreneurs innovating Africa’s financial services industry. The...

SA startups shortlisted for accelerator

Three South African startups have made it on the shortlist to becoming one of the 10 startups to be accelerated by leading international startup accelerator Startupbootcamp InsurTech in 2017. Aerobotics, Emerge Analytics and NuvaLaw are up against 20 other startups...