Crowdstrike and Microsoft stocks down but global searches soar
Worldwide searches for "CrowdStrike stock" and "Microsoft stock" have surged 3 054% and 981% respectively over the past week after the global IT crash. However, each corporation's daily stock value dropped on 19 July. This is following an outage that spread globally...
Landmark Climate Change Act welcomed
The Environmental Assessment Practitioners Association of South Africa (EAPASA) welcomes President Cyril Ramaphosa's signing of the Climate Change Bill into law this week. "The signing of the bill is a step in the right direction, as South Africa has established...
Tourism moves towards pre-pandemic levels
After stronger than expected recovery in 2022, this year could see international tourism arrivals return to pre-pandemic levels in Europe and the Middle East. Tourists are nonetheless expected to increasingly seek value for money and travel closer to home in response...
Recession expected but food, energy, inflation pressures could be peaking
A majority of the World Economic Forum’s community of chief economists expect a global recession in 2023, see geopolitical tensions continuing to shape the global economy, and anticipate further monetary tightening in the US and Europe. These are the key findings of...
CEOs believe economic growth will decline this year
Nearly three quarters (73%) of CEOs believe global economic growth will decline over the next 12 months, according to PwC's 26th Annual Global CEO Survey, which polled 4 410 CEOs in 105 countries and territories in October and November 2022. The bleak CEO outlook is...
How consumers envision a future impacted by climate change
A massive 99% of more than 15 000 global early technology adopters consulted by Ericsson say that they expect to be proactively using internet and connectivity-based solutions by 2030 to personally address the impact of climate change and global warming. The statistic...
Eskom crisis demonstrates importance of succession planning
The current crisis at Eskom has a number of governance lessons for South Africa, one of which is the vital importance of proper succession planning for key senior positions. This is the word from Parmi Natesan, CEO of the Institute of Directors in South Africa...
Opportunities for early movers as green-market demand grows
Analysis from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicates that greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced by 43% by 2030 to limit global warming to the required 1,5 degrees. A recent report from the IPCC shows that emissions are expected to...
Financial crime prevention software spend to hit $28bn
A new Juniper Research study found that global software spend on financial crime prevention tools will exceed $28,7-billion by 2027, increasing from $22,1-billion in 2023. It predicted this growth of 30% will be driven by cybercriminals' strategies of targeting the...
Steady growth for enterprise applications forecast
According to a new International Data Corporation (IDC) forecast, worldwide revenue for enterprise applications will grow from $279,6-billion in 2022 to $385,2-billion in 2026 with a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8%. Nearly all this growth will come...
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Home security: more than a camera
There is a significant increase in the focus on home and personal security. This is according to Roy Alves, country manager of Axis Communications, who points to a steep surge in the deployment of home and residential security solutions. Alves adds that, whereas...
Reduce tax risk, use qualified professionals
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Orange Business Services appoints
Mark McCallum is Orange country manager Orange Business Services has appointed Mark McCallum, as the new country manager for South Africa, effective immediately. McCallum takes over the management role from Yannick Decaux, who has moved on to a new position within the...
Oracle graduates set to enter the workplace
Twenty four PDI South African students has completed the Oracle Graduate Leadership Programme that equips them with specialised IT and leadership skills to secure employment in the country's fast growing ICT industry. "With the fourth industrial revolution set to be...
Entersekt appoints new senior VP
Stellenbosch-headquartered fintech company Entersekt has appointed ICT industry veteran Pattison Mutambiranwa as senior vice-president for Middle East and Africa. The newly created position attests to Entersekt's growing dominance in sub-Saharan Africa and sustained...
New m-commerce solution for all businesses
A new app is offering businesses, large and small, a commercially viable mobile commerce platform. "The South African market has been touted as ripe for m-commerce for a while, but until now there have been no options for businesses beyond developing their own...
SUSE, Supermicro partner on mission-critical solutions
SUSE and Supermicro have entered into a global partnership that will provide innovative new enterprise IT solutions based on Supermicro hardware featuring SUSE OpenStack Cloud, SUSE Enterprise Storage, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, and embedded...
Questions to ask when buying a laptop
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Jasco debuts Leyard LED MultiTouch Video Wall
Jasco Broadcast has announced local availability of Leyard's LED MultiTouch Video Wall, the industry's very first seamless touch-enabled LED video wall. It is available in three sizes: 108-inch, 151-inch and 196-inch; and features up to 32 simultaneous touch points....
Why CEM will make its mark on business
User experience, customer satisfaction and value-add: concepts that are banded about quite easily, but more often than not overlooked and neglected ... until now. Today, we have customer experience management (CEM) and it is very much the next "big thing" for...
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