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Teraco completes Durban data centre expansion
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Global M&A activity increased by 48% in Q1
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Young entrepreneurs take up the challenge
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Smaller companies fuel growth in wearables
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Orchid sexually exploits male beetles – a world first from Africa
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Resellers cry foul as SITA confirms tender exclusions
By Kathy Gibson – A group of resellers is crying foul over the State IT Agency (SITA)’s handling of the ongoing RFB0740 tender controversy. Having won what appeared to be a commitment to address their grievances yesterday morning, events in the afternoon seem to have...
Balance risk management and productivity when using RPA
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Firms should shelve NPS as customer service measure
By 2025, more than 75% of organisations will have abandoned Net Promoter Score (NPS) as a measure of success for customer service and support, according to Gartner. Customer service and support leaders should move now to build the case to remove NPS from...
Africa urgently needs 20m vaccine doses
Africa needs at least 20-million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the next six weeks to get second doses to all who received a first dose within the eight to 12-week interval between doses recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO). A single dose of...
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Cannon wins Frost & Sullivan award
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Video-based customer service
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