Uber stops off in Mombasa and Abuja

Uber has launched in two new African cities, Mombasa in Kenya and Abuja in Nigeria – with Abuja the 400th city where the ride-sharing service is being offered. Alon Lits, GM of Uber sub-Saharan Africa, comments: “We’re really excited to be launching Uber in these two...

Redeploying old kit could raise profits

Redeploying old IT equipment in today’s tough economic conditions could easily result in higher profits. There is no sense in retiring old devices when they are still working and other employees might get some use out of them. However, Xperien CEO Wale Arewa...

Backup appliances see modest growth

Worldwide purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) factory revenues grew 4,1% year over year totalling $1,05-billion in the fourth quarter of 2015 (4Q15), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Appliance Tracker. For the...
Looming upset for financial services

Looming upset for financial services

A massive 83% of leaders in  from traditional financial services (FS) firms believe part of their business is at risk of being lost to standalone FinTech companies – and this rises to a staggering 95% in the case of banks. And yet FinTech innovations are not...

What do job-seekers really want?

The reason that people change their jobs is not cut and dried, but varies according to geography and generation. This is according to a global study from ManpowerGroup Solutions in a new paper, “Below the Surface: Emerging Global Motivators and Job Search...

Under siege, cybersecurity professionals don’t share

Although new malware continues to proliferate, only 42% of cybersecurity professional use shared cyber-threat intelligence – mainly because they are prevented from doing so by corporate policies (54%), industry regulations (24%) and a lack of information on how...