Retail e-commerce to pass $12trn by 2030
The global retail e-commerce market size is estimated to reach $12,35-trillion by 2030 and growing at a CAGR of 11,6% from 2024 to 2030, according to the recent reports of Grand View Research. The demand for retail e-commerce is expected to increase over the forecast...
Huawei has its sights on Africa
Kathy Gibson reports - Africa is alive with possibility, and Huawei is keen to work with governments and businesses to realise the opportunities. "Globally, the digital economy is growing rapidly," says David Wang, executive director of the board and chairman of the...
Customers demand more from life insurers
The latest South African Customer Satisfaction Index (SA-csi) for Life Insurance (2021) conducted by Consulta reveals how satisfied customers are with their life insurers over the last year. The benchmark measurement for Life Insurance (2021) provides important...
Companies will let customers go if they are not a good fit
By 2025, 75% of companies will "break up" with poor-fit customers as the cost of retaining them eclipses good-fit customer acquisition costs, according to Gartner. When "breaking up" with a poor-fit customer, organizations proactively end the relationship on their own...
Improved business confidence could be shaken by geopolitics
After remaining unchanged at 43 points in the fourth quarter of 2021, the RMB/BER Business Confidence Index (BCI) increased to 46 in the first quarter of 2022. Although this is just below the neutral-50 mark reached in the second half of last year, the latest reading...
Despite challenges, SA grows women business owners
Despite the gender gap and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, women in South Africa are making progress as entrepreneurs, indicating a strong will and determination to survive. This is according to the latest Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs Index (MIWE),...
Inappropriate remuneration is the coalface of corruption
The litany of serious governance failures laid bare in the published elements of the Zondo Report is a wake-up for South Africa, and remuneration issues are at the heart of the problem - and it's solution. This is according to Dr Mark Bussin, executive committee...
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...
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Embed analytics in the fabric of companies
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Adapt IT wins Oracle award
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The future of workflow
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Avaya named leader by Gartner
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Facebook Messenger privacy issues
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Making the most of a CCTV solution
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Datameer signs partnership with MDM
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BMi rolls out QlikView solution
BMi, a primary market research firm, initially adopted QlikView to streamline its financial reporting. Soon after, it discovered the tool’s true value for its business – an uncanny ability to link multiple data sets onto a single uniform platform. As a result, the...
Jasco launches generator sets
Jasco Power is offering generator sets of 10kVA to 1200kVA that can be purpose built to suit any businesses requirements. In operation for 12 months and with a goal of taking a 20% market share in the highly competitive generator market space within the next year,...
Craig Luck named MD of Datanet
Pinnacle Holdings is proud to announce the appointment of Craig Luck as MD of its infrastructure arm, Datanet. Starting from 1 September 2014, Craig Luck will be taking over from Nico Steyn who is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. Nico has done some...
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