Rise of the industry-specific cloud

Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai – As cloud computing becomes more pervasive, industry-specific clouds will start up that cater to the specific needs of vertical markets. In fact, the industry cloud market is set to accelerate in the next...

Huawei commits to open partnering

Kathy Gibson reports from Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai – Partnering is a key strategy for Huawei as it builds out its IT business to embrace public, private and hybrid cloud solutions. Eric Xu, CEO of Huawei Technologies, stresses that the very nature of cloud...

Digital fuels entertainment and media growth

After more than a decade of digital disruption, the African entertainment and media industry has entered a new landscape – one where the media is no longer divided into distinct traditional and digital spheres, according to a report from PwC. PwC’s...

Robots will not steal all our jobs

The data in the market on anticipated job loss thanks to automation is quite dire — with the most popular study claiming that nearly 50% of jobs will be impacted. But these studies have so far ignored an important factor of automation — jobs created. Yes,...

Facebook, Instagram, shape SA social media

Facebook is now used by a quarter of all South Africans, while Instagram has seen the fastest growth of any social network in South Africa over the past year. These are two of the key findings from the South African Social Media Landscape 2016 study, released...

CoinVault suspects arrested

Dutch police have arrested two men, aged 18 and 22, from Amersfoort, The Netherlands, on suspicion of involvement in CoinVault ransomware attacks. The malware campaign started in May 2014 and continued this year, targeting users in more than 20 countries. Kaspersky...