Jul 27, 2015
Heart disease, cancer and type 2 diabetes are common diseases linked with the high consumption of sugar. Now, governments are turning to tax to help cut the sweet and promote healthier lifestyles. “A recent study has presented interesting data with South Africa at the...
Jul 24, 2015
New African businesses need financial resources, better facilities and services, and government support to alleviate the challenges they face. These are some of the findings from a survey of 1 000 business owners throughout sub-Saharan Africa on entrepreneurship in...
Jul 24, 2015
Global mobile data traffic is set to reach 52-million Terrabytes (Tb) in 2015, an increase of 59% from 2014, according to Gartner. The rapid growth is set to continue through 2018, when mobile data levels are estimated to reach 173-million Tb. Gartner analysts advise...
Jul 24, 2015
It is projected that more than half the growth in the IT market over the next 10 years will come from emerging economies. This is according to says Joel Schwartz, senior vice-president and GM: Global Business Development for EMC. He says that approximately half of...
Jul 24, 2015
Pfungwa Serima, CEO of SAP Africa for the last seven years, has been promoted to chairman of company. Brett Parker, currently MD of Southern Africa, will take over the role of MD for SAP Africa. Both appointments are with immediate effect. Serima’s new role will see...
Jul 24, 2015
A remote control vulnerability has been discovered in connected cars, driving the need for an intelligent architecture around the technology. Sergey Lozhkin, senior security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab, comments: “Yesterday there was a media storm in the infosecurity...
