Lower inflation boosts February take-home pay
The real take-home pay, measured in the BankservAfrica’s Take-home Pay Index (BTPI), saw an encouraging rise in February as the sharp slowdown in inflation through 2024 continues to have a positive effect on salary earners’ purchasing power. While supporting...
Big changes ahead for payments industry
There is an urgent need for decisive action to ensure profitable and sustainable long-term growth in the payments industry.Boston Consulting Group (BCG)’s 22nd annual Global Payments Report, titled Fortune Favors the Bold. It emphasises the strategic imperative for...
IT spend in Europe set for 9% growth
IT spending in Europe is projected to total $1,1-trillion in 2024, an increase of 9,3% from 2023, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. IT spending in Europe is on pace to surpass $1-trillion by the end of 2023. "Despite a conflated economic situation, IT...
Ford celebrates 100 years in SA
Ford Motor Company is celebrating 100 years in South Africa with a R5,2-billion investment in its local operations for production of the first-ever Ford Ranger Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV). The company is also launching an expanded product range that will...
Tarsus on Demand helps SMEs on their digital journey
Tarsus On Demand has launched a digital business hub marketplace, Tarsus on Demand, designed to empower SMEs on their digitalisation journey by addressing their unique challenges and helping them to leverage opportunities within the digital landscape. Senzo Mbhele, MD...
SA businesses follow a cloud smart strategy
Kathy Gibson reports from VMware Explore - As multi-cloud and cloud smart strategies become the de facto choice for organisations around the globe, VMware reports encouraging growth in South Africa. And, despite the uncertainty of the Broadcom acquisition in the...
Data sovereignty a key concern as cloud accelerates
Kathy Gibson reports from VMware Explore - As organisations move more of their mission-critical workloads to the cloud, the issue of data sovereignty and privacy is becoming more relevant than ever. To address concerns, VMware launched its Sovereign Cloud offering...
E-commerce poised to capture 41% of global retail sales
With Black Friday on the horizon it is as good a time as any to explore retail trends - and the Boston Consulting Group has just released new research exploring e-commerce trends from the beginning of the pandemic to the present. After tremendous acceleration...
A day without the Internet would cost $43bn
The Internet has become such an integral part of our daily lives that we often do not even think about how much we rely on it. But if the Internet were to go down globally for even just a single day, the economic impact would be enormous. Such interruption of online...
Digital payments to become a $10trn industry
Over the past five years, more than 1,6-billion people worldwide have embraced digital payments, pushing the total user count in this market to a whopping 4,44-billion - or more than half the world`s population. This massive user base has helped the total transaction...
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Jumia, Amadeus launch Flight Marketplace
In commemoration of World Tourism Day 2018, Jumia is is partnering with Amadeus on a new flights marketplace. The platform aims at enabling travel agents, airlines, and travel websites to bring all flight content online, to offer customers the best available prices...
Digital transforming insurance
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Fujitsu launches its smallest PC
Fujitsu today introduces its smallest-ever desktop PC. With a total volume of less than one liter, the Esprimo G558 is small enough to be connected to the back of a display - yet powerful enough to perfectly run desktop and web-based office applications. With a total...
Asteroid and NAPAfrica sign MoU for Africa
Asteroid and NAPAfrica have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen the friendship and cooperation between the two organisations, and to collaborate on developing African Internet interconnection. The cooperation focuses on promoting peering and...
Free service day for LG
LG Electronics (LG) South Africa has announced its annual Free Service Day 2018 for all South Africans on 12 and 13 October 2018, between 09:00 and 16:00 daily. "The one of a kind industry event has previously attracted many interested and current consumers, industry...
Samsung and Mickey Mouse’s 90th birthday
Mickey Mouse is celebrating his 90th anniversary this year. With his universal appeal and ability to emotionally connect with generations all over the world, no other character quite occupies a similar space in the hearts and minds of a global fan base. To commemorate...
VoIP buying guide for small businesses
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IoT is key to a more sustainable future
The Internet of Things (IoT) is already causing waves across both the consumer and business landscapes, with IDC projecting worldwide spending to reach $772,5-billion in 2018 - an increase of 14,6% over the $674-billion that spent in 2017. Ronald Ravel, director B2B...
Mastercard, EasyPay take the friction out of payments
South Africans can now buy prepaid utility services or pay their accounts from approximately 600 bill issuers with the new EasyPay Mobile app using Masterpass, the global digital payment service from Mastercard. The collaboration marks a significant milestone in...
Scan, monitor and check mobile subscriptions
Regularly scan your messaging inbox for messages saying you are subscribed to mobile services, monitor your contract cellphone statements or prepaid airtime balance, and proactively check your mobile subscription status with your cellular network. Do these three...
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Business Analyst (Asset Management)
Leading Asset Management company based in Cape Town seeks a smart, dynamic Business Analyst to work with their product team with their bespoke software products.Join leading asset manager. Completed BCom / BSc Honours with approx 1-2 years relevant experience working...
DevOps Engineer (Remote) – Gauteng Johannesburg Region
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Full Stack Developer (Flutter/FlutterFlow) (JHB Hybrid) – Gauteng Kempton Park
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Data Analyst
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Desktop Support Technician – Gauteng Parkwood
Responsible for providing first level IT support including desktop, telephony, printer, hardware and general software support thus contributing to our clients staff productivity.Minimim qualification for the role is matric, A +, N + and MCITPKey Performance Areas:-...
Data Engineer – KwaZulu-Natal Pinetown
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