Mar 28, 2014
Employee engagement has become an increasingly important part of a company’s retention strategy, with research suggesting that training programmes in particular play a huge role in motivating staff and increasing employee loyalty. According to a global survey...
Mar 27, 2014
The May 2014 commercial launch of dotAfrica is now a fait accompli after the final outstanding paperwork was inked at the 49th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) in Singapore yesterday. The Registry Agreement was signed at the...
Mar 27, 2014
Pinnacle Holdings’ share price rose slightly today, as the company released a statement seeking to reassure investors about its actions and those of bribery-accused executive director Takalani Tshivase. The share was still trading heavily, with about 3,1-million...
Mar 27, 2014
The latest MasterCard Online Shopping Behaviour Study reveals that 90% of South African respondents cite the availability of secure payment facilities as critical when shopping online. Concern around the safety of online transactions was the reason 42% gave for not...
Mar 27, 2014
Oracle has announced Java 8, dubbing it the most significant release of the platform since its launch in 1996. The company has unveiled Java Platform Standard Edition 8 (Java DE 8) and Java Platform Micro Edition 8 (Java ME 8) as well as JDK 8 and Java SE Embedded 8....
Mar 27, 2014
Considerable progress has been made in the municipal sector over the past decade in terms of the roll-out of basic services, with key measures of service delivery and living standards having improved across all of South Africa’s geographies – particularly in...