Take-home pay improves again in August
The BankservAfrica Take-home Pay Index (BTPI) - which tracks the average nominal take-home pay among an estimated 4-million salary earners in South Africa - improved for the fifth consecutive month in August. “The average nominal take-home pay reached R16 582 showing...
Rising cost of living drives move to credit
The number of overall credit originations (a measure of new accounts opened) increased by 15,2%, as South Africans increasingly used new and existing credit products to meet their rising consumption needs via credit cards, personal loans, and retail revolving loans,...
Businesses are still introducing security risk into cloud environments
While cloud computing and its many forms (private, public, hybrid cloud or multi-cloud environments) have become ubiquitous with innovation and growth over the past decade, cybercriminals have closely watched the migration and introduced innovations of their own to...
Compute, storage cloud infrastructure spend on upward trajectory
Spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared IT environments, increased 22,4% year over year in the second quarter of 2022 (2Q22) to $22,6-billion. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC)...
Automation is on the corporate agenda
A massive 85% of infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders that do not currently have any full automation expect to become more automated in the next two to three years. Gartner predicts that by 2025, 70% of organisations will implement structured automation to...
Your personal data could go for less than the price of a Big Mac
Cybercriminals sell users' data on the dark web for dirt-cheap prices - often less than the price of a Big Mac in the US. For instance, a batch of American mobile phone numbers costs $4.50, US payment card data can be bought for around $5.80, and the Twitter login for...
Mobility as a service could save users $10,8bn in fuel
A new study from Juniper Research found MaaS (mobility as a service) will generate fuel cost savings of $10,8-billion by 2027 globally; increasing from $2,8-billion in 2022 - a growth of 282%. The research anticipates these savings will be achieved by MaaS' ability to...
Joburg teens shine in global AI contest
Three teenage girls from Johannesburg have competed against thousands of others in a global artificial intelligence (AI) programming festival and have won the event's country recognition category, each earning $500 (about R9 000) and a certificate of global...
Fintech, edtech dominate SA venture capital investments
Growth in South Africa's venture capital (VC) industry remains robust - with early-stage fund managers investing R1,31-billion into 121 entities through 186 investment rounds. This is according to the 2022 Southern African Venture Capital Association (SAVCA) Venture...
Telkom, MTN still in acquisition talks
Telkom has renewed the cautionary announcement issued on 22 August and relating to Discussions between Telkom and MTN. MTN is proposing to acquire MTN of the entire issued share capital of Telkom in return for shares or a combination of cash and shares in MTN. The MTN...
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Sage launches unified Global Partner Programme
Sage is simplifying, harmonising and globalising its partner relationships with its new Global Partner Programme, providing partners with enhanced benefits and incentives. As the world's leading small and medium business accounting, payments and payroll solutions...
Is it time to find a new home for your data?
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Enable organisational change with a people-centric view
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Check Point makes the Magic Quadrant again
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Build an efficient control centre for your digital business
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Ruckus buys WiFi onboarding supplier
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Public sector digitalisation builds on legacy
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How to manage the human firewall
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Dell disrupts Internet of Things
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Rigid ERP gives way to flexible business management
For years, businesses that have wanted to automate their business processes and capture transactions electronically have had to rely on monolithic enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions to do so. But as powerful and feature-rich as the old-school ERP system is,...
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