May 15, 2013
The eight leading suppliers of industrial electronics suffered revenue declines in 2012, reflecting weak conditions for the beleaguered market, according to an IHS iSuppli Industrial Electronics Market Tracker Report from IHS. The eight, along with two gainers in the...
May 15, 2013
Orange has launched the third Orange African Social Venture Prize, aimed at promoting social innovations in support of developments that use ICT. Orange, which is present in 18 African countries and boasts over 70-million customers, is seeking to become a major...
May 15, 2013
In comparison with paper-based processes, electronic invoice handling processes make it possible to reduce costs by between 50% and 80%. Investments in electronic invoice processing can therefore often be gained back within six months, according to a new report. Many...
May 15, 2013
The Department of Higher Education is pumping R2-billion into Further Education and Training Colleges (FETs) in order to increase the number of artisans trained and delivered to the market – but the underlying problem is not with the quantity of artisans, but...
May 14, 2013
Vital for economic growth but facing serious challenges, South African small and micro businesses are displaying unwavering entrepreneurial spirit, according to new research commissioned by Regus. Even though some might have fallen into business ownership through...
May 14, 2013
Worldwide mobile phone sales to end-users totalled nearly 426-million units in the first quarter of 2013, a slight increase of 0,7% from the same period last year, according to Gartner. Worldwide smartphone sales totalled 210-million units in the first quarter of...
