Digital platforms could add R91,4bn to SA economy
Kathy Gibson reports - The digital platform economy could be a game-changer for South Africa, potentially adding R91,4-billion to the economy by 2035. This growth would see the sector's contribution expand from 0,02% of GDP in 2022 to a meaningful 1,38% by 2035. These...
4G/LTE will be embedded in next-generation spacesuits
Nokia has partnered with Axiom Space to integrate advanced 4G/LTE communication capabilities into the next-generation spacesuits that will be used for the Artemis III lunar mission. Together, Nokia and Axiom Space will incorporate high-speed cellular-network...
Microsoft looks to fast-track youth entrepreneurship
Microsoft is expanding its partnership with the African Development Bank to support Africa's youth entrepreneurs under the bank's Youth Entrepreneurship Investment Banks (YEIB) Initiative. Through its African Transformation Office (ATO), Microsoft will work with the...
Banking-as-a-service revenue on the rise
A new study from Juniper Research has found the total BaaS (Banking-as-a-Service) platform revenue will exceed $38-billion by 2027, rising from $11-billion in 2022. The rapid growth of 240% will be driven by BaaS' ability to deepen relationships between brands and...
International tourism back to 60% of pre-pandemic levels
International tourism has continued to show strong signs of recovery, with arrivals reaching 57% of pre-pandemic levels in the first seven months of 2022. According to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, international tourist arrivals almost tripled in January...
Q4: What to expect in terms of liquidations and business rescue
Although consumers can expect some relief at the petrol pumps, our economy will take much longer to recover. Unfortunately, Covid-19 has left us with an economic crisis with inflation growing rapidly, rising interest rates and all-time high unemployment rates. This...
Views on corruption drive attitude to tax systems
Taxpayers' attitudes about paying taxes correlate closely with perceived levels of corruption, according to a major new study - Public Trust in Tax - by accountancy bodies ACCA and the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC). A survey of 5 900 people across 14...
The metaverse will open up opportunities for Africa
The 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) was held this year as the world continues to see complex socio-economic issues, writes Balkissa Ide Siddo, public policy director, sub-Saharan Africa. Many economies are still reeling from the Covid-19...
Untrained employees pose major security risk
Security specialist KnowBe4 has released a report showing that, without training, 21% of the untrained global workforce did not know who to go to when faced with a security breach. The minutes that lapse between an employee seeing a potential security threat and the...
Positive growth continues for unified communications and collaboration
The worldwide Unified Communications & Collaboration (UC&C) market grew 11,4% year over year and 2,9% compared to the previous quarter to $14,8-billion in the second quarter of 2022 (2Q22), according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Unified Communications and...
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RS Components debuts ARM mbed platform
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Encouraging growth for production printers
The worldwide production print market continues to show year-over-year growth in unit shipments, gaining 9,9% in the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15). According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Production Printer Tracker, unit shipments...
Large format printers slip again
According to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Large Format Printer Tracker, large format printer (LFP) shipments declined -4% when compared to Q3 2014. "The third quarter is often the slowest quarter of the year in the global...
Switch market sees slight growth, routers decline
The worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) exceeded $6,1-billion in revenue in the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15), an increase of 2% year over year and a healthy increase of 6,1% quarter over quarter. Meanwhile, the worldwide total enterprise and service provider...
Get full value from conferences
Getting back to serious work in the New Year means getting the diary for the next 12 months into some sort of order. A key issue here is what conferences to attend, where and why, writes Auguste Coetzer, director: executive search at Talent Africa. As costs remain...
Five big data trends for 2016
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Ensure a positive experience in the contact centre
Jim Freeze, senior vice-president of Aspect Software, offers five tips for customer service success. Most of us will have been at the receiving end of bad customer service, and it is normally something that you do not forget too quickly. However, it may not purely be...
Millennials guiding the always-on business
With more millennials joining the workforce and expecting a seamlessly connected environment, companies need to ensure that operations are conducive to an always-on approach. According to Warren Olivier, regional manager for southern Africa at Veeam, changing business...
Infortrend appoints CSSi as African distributor
Infortrend has announced the official appointment of CSSi (Computer Storage Services) as the distributor for its award-winning range of storage devices. During 2015, Infortrend was ranked first In terms of IOPS and speed performance records, as assessed by the Storage...
BT joins alliance to promote retail insights
BT is a founding member of the Acuitas Digital Alliance, bringing together like-minded technology innovators determined to bring the full benefits of the new digital era across the entire supply chain, all the way to the physical locations where customers do business....
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