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Africa to see triple-digit growth in consumer spending
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A day without the Internet would cost $43bn
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Digital payments to become a $10trn industry
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AI, HPC and quantum technologies synergise to advance innovation
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Banking malware, a stealer and a new ransomware strain uncovered
Three malicious threats capable of stealing data and funds have been identified and analysed in-depth in Kaspersky's latest crimeware report: the GoPIX stealer that targets the PIX payment system, the Lumar multipurpose stealer, and the Rhysida ransomware. As...
Steady growth for trackers in cargo carrying units
Berg Insight, the world's leading IoT market research provider, today released a new market report covering the trailer and cargo container tracking market. The number of active tracking devices deployed for cargo carrying units (ie. trailers, intermodal containers,...
Multi-cloud, AI the burning IT issues of the day
Kathy Gibson reports from VMware Explore - The burning issues for CEOs today are their cloud journey and artificial intelligence (AI). This is the word from Raghu Raghuran, CEO of VMware, who points out that VMware realised a couple of years ago that the cloud journey...
Extending modernisation, manageability to the edge
Kathy Gibson reports from VMware Explore - An often-overlooked but incredibly important area of IT endeavour, the edge, is gaining importance as the place where a lot of compute action is taking place. VMware's concept of the software-defined edge is a distributed...
Building modern services demands a solid foundation
Kathy Gibson reports from VMware Explore - The technology hype today is all around artificial intelligence, data mining and advanced analytics. But what makes all these advances possible is a rock-solid platform foundation. The continued development of VMware Cloud...
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