Visa headaches could impact SA hospitality
South Africa’s hospitality industry is prepared to grow further in the next five years, with most growth in the sector expected to be generated in Cape Town, according to a report released by PwC.
Morocco wins at innovation awards
The African Innovation Foundation (AIF), in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry, Trade, Investment and Digital Economy in Morocco, has named researcher Adnane Remmal the winner of the Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2015 Grand Prize, which pays out $100 000...
Positive outlook for SA start-ups
While start-up entrepreneurs face key challenges, the majority are positive and are motivated to grow and develop their businesses. These are among the findings of a survey of 900 start-up entrepreneurs by Seed Academy, aimed at getting a national snapshot of start-up entrepreneurs. According to the findings, the main problems entrepreneurs face are finding customers, raising funds, a lack of guidance and entrepreneurs’ tendency to wear too many hats.
18% of SA users lose data backups
A joint survey by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International has found that 18% of South African users surveyed who kept backup copies of their data on physical media eventually lost these copies. The survey revealed that, while the vast majority (96%) of respondents stored...Securicom offers redundant local archiving
Managed IT security services vendor and distributor Securicom believes it has become the only South African e-mail security and archiving company that has geographically redundant data centres within the borders of South Africa.This follows the splitting of its...
MTN takes on IoT control in Africa
MTN has launched a pan-African Internet of Things (IoT) platform that will help companies to control and manage their connected devices and SIM cards. Alongside the platform, MTN has also launched a global machine to machine (M2M) SIM card, which gives customers the same rate for M2M activity across MTN’s African network. The IoT market is big and growing, says Mteto Nyati, group chief enterprise officer at MTN. It is expected that IoT connections will reach 360-million by 2018, while the M2M market is already worth about R350-million, growing to R1,2-billion by 2017.