AI spend soars to unprecedented levels

Worldwide spending on AI is forecast to total $2,7-trillion in 2026, a 49,5% increase year-over-year, according to Gartner. “Demand for AI infrastructure (including AI-optimised IaaS, AI-optimised servers, AI network fabric, AI processing semiconductors and devices)...

Defences improve, but ransomware still threatens SA businesses

Almost two-thirds (63%) of ransomware incidents in South Africa resulted in data being encrypted over the past year, according to the new State of Ransomware in South Africa 2026 report from Sophos. This is above the global average of 56% and an increase from the 60%...

20 years on and gender gap parity is fracturing

Twenty years after the World Economic Forum first measured the global gender gap, the world is closer to parity than ever, but progress is fragile, with gains reversing in some areas, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2026. Women now reach senior leadership in...

Unemployed are least likely to prioritise betting spending-limit tools

The online betting group most likely to prioritise debt repayment with a windfall is also the group least likely to ask regulators or operators for spending controls, according to new research from Softswiss. Fewer than four in 10 unemployed South Africans think...

AI drives growing shared cloud infrastructure spend

Spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared IT environments, increased 36,9% year over year in the first quarter of 2024 (1Q24) to $33-billion, according to the International Data Corporation...

Absa PMI inches up as challenges linger

The seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) increased by 1.9 points to reach 45.7 points in June 2024, compared to 43.8 in May 2024. While there is some improvement, it was the second consecutive month that the PMI remained below the 50-point mark....

First-time consumer credit defaults improve as economy re-opens

The rate people defaulted on their loans for the first time improved in the fourth quarter of 2021, according to Experian South Africa's Consumer Default Index (CDI). People defaulted on their loans at a lower rate than the fourth quarter of the previous year,...

Cybercrime set to spike in the wake of Ukrainian conflict

The financial pressure on Russia, as a result of global sanctions following the military conflict in Ukraine, is increasing to the point where cybercrime is now seen as a viable alternative to conventional revenue sources. This is according to Deon Smal, CEO of Cyber...

Industry leaders foster open ecosystem for chiplet design

Intel, along with Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), AMD, Arm, Google Cloud, Meta, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, have established an industry consortium to promote an open die-to-die interconnect standard called Universal...

IT security leaders lean on external support for threat intelligence

IT security leaders seeking to boost internal threat intelligence (TI) programs would prefer to delegate five out of eight major TI aspects to external vendors rather than develop them in-house, according to a commissioned survey conducted by Forrester Consulting on...

Eskom Expo to host research and innovation camps

The Eskom Expo for Young Scientists is hosting a number of Research and Innovation Camps around South Africa in a bid to equip budding researchers at schools with the tools to produce award-winning projects. A number of camps have already been held in the Free State,...

Proudly South African calls for localisation

A lack of local demand remains one of the most significant obstacles limiting South Africa's economic growth potential. This is the work from Eustace Mashimbye, CEO of Proudly South African, who adds: "The success of government's economic reconstruction and recovery...

Chatbot messaging app accesses to reach 9,5bn by 2026

A new Juniper Research study has found that the total number of chatbot messaging apps accessed globally will increase from 3,5-billion in 2022 to 9,5-billion by 2026. This growth of 169% will be driven by the increasing adoption of omnichannel retail strategies by...

Initial impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on ICT markets

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the resulting diplomatic and economic response have led to a critical turning point for Europe and the world. The information and communications technology (ICT) market has also been affected by the conflict as well as the economic...

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MoboFree.com to see $1,5bn in sales

MoboFree.com, the leading African social marketplace, has announced that the total volume of items currently for sale in its marketplace is worth $526-million and is expected to reach $1.5-billion by 2015. With 3.3-million registered users, including 2-million in...

No business without disaster recovery

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