Buyout offer for Multichoice
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WLAN vendors headed for rocky waters
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Digital-only banking set for global growth
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South Africans ‘waste’ opportunities to e-recycle
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Education needed to improve Africa’s low levels of climate change literacy
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Digital commerce will be impacted by these technologies
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Carrier multi-access edge cloud to reach $16bn
International Data Corporation (IDC) sees 2021 as an accelerated year for multi-access edge cloud (MEC) investments. MEC buildouts are being carried out by a broad cross-section of edge stakeholders (e.g., wireless and wireline communications service providers, cable...
Innovative startups set to disrupt, drive development of edge computing
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Commonwealth urges vaccine equity
Countries must have a holistic response to responding to the multiple and interlinked global crises of the pandemic, climate change and its economic fallout. This was the message from Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland speaking at the UN trade conference...
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Technology key for the healthcare sector
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The role of ERP in the packaging industry
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iPads increasingly used as conference tools
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