AI companies dominate the unicorn club
Last year, fewer than 100 companies joined the global unicorn club - the lowest number since 2017 and a steep drop compared to 2022 and 2023, which saw hundreds of private startups valued at $1-billion or more. Still, in a year that showed becoming a unicorn is much...
Tech industry most geopoliticised in the world
The global supply chains organised to optimise profit and speed - which shaped international trade and delivered benefits to both producers and consumers for two decades under globalisation - have now been twisted out of shape, with the global economy facing...
This is why most engineers leave their jobs
More than half of engineers have considered leaving or left a job because of technical debt. This is according to Stepsize, a development tool for the healthy codebase, which examines the challenges tech companies face in hiring and retaining developers. While...
Computer graphics hardware market to hit $138bn
The surge in the use of mobile phones, the explosive growth of the gaming industry, and the evolving web technology have all been major factors driving the computer graphics hardware market. Although the entire industry was affected by the Covid-19, with global...
SA educator makes shortlist for StartUp Company of the Year
South African online safety and digital life skills program, MySociaLife, has been shortlisted as the 2021 StartUp Company of the Year at the GESS Education Awards Dubai to be held on 15 November. "To make it to the final nine is truly exciting, especially in a...
2Africa now longest undersea cable
The 2Africa consortium, comprised of China Mobile International, Facebook, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone and WIOCC, have announced the addition of a new segment - the 2Africa PEARLS branch - extending to the Arabian Gulf, Pakistan and into India....
What can SA expect in the next phase of the Covid-19 pandemic?
The Delta variant of Covid-19 is key to understanding the current trends around the reopening of the global economy, and what we can expect in the next phase of the pandemic. This is the word from Mark Ainsworth, head of data insights and analytics at Schroders, who...
Half a million companies went under during Covid-19
The mass layoffs and office closures caused by the Covid-19 have affected almost every industry and sector. As a result, hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide were pushed out of the track, and many of them couldn't meet the challenges posed by the pandemic....
Small businesses need to focus on financial literacy, boosting revenue, tech adoption
According to research announced today by Xero, the top five priorities for South Africa's SMEs as they look to grow are: expanding revenue streams (63%), preparing for financial instability (62%), improving operations with technology (54%), improving financial...
Timid growth for EMEA external enterprise storage
The EMEA external storage systems market value was up 3,3% year on year in dollars but down 5,5% in euros in 2021Q2, according to International Data Corporation's (IDC) EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. The trend was similar within the subregions, with...
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Marval South Africa offers ITSM workshops
Marval South Africa has bolstered its education and training offering with the introduction of a corporate strategy and service management workshop tailored to the business needs of the corporate sector, medium-sized business and individual professionals. With the...
Teradata conference highlights key trends
Delegates from Bytes Universal Systems and several of its key clients recently attended the Teradata Partner Conference in Dallas, Texas. The growing importance of big data was one of the key trends at the conference, which was attended by 4 500 delegates. Keynote...
Tackling the question of women in business
It’s troubling that in debates about women in business, as in human resources in general, the same issues have been coming up for more than a decade, says Jennie Algie, head of people development, Merchants. And, yes, while organisations are reporting a gradual...
Successfully selecting an ERP solution
The process of selecting the best enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for your business goes deeper than criteria such as functionality, usability and an industry-specific offering, says Craig Stephens, VP, International Consulting, Epicor Software Corporation....
Enhancing the private cloud
Companies today are looking for solutions that offer better traction for their IT budgets, while providing agile, innovative and automated IT services both inside and outside of their organisations. One such solution to dynamically scale enterprise workloads and to...
Rectron announces new corporate logo
Rectron, a leading distributor of computers, peripherals and accessories have announced the launch of a new look to their logo – setting the scene for great things to come for the company. The new logo for Rectron was officially launched on the 24th of October 2013 to...
Healthcare supply chain rankings
Gartner has released the fifth annual Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 ranking. The 2013 ranking identifies organisations leading the way in transforming the healthcare value chain to meet new revenue challenges through enhanced service and lower costs with an...
African insurers hindered by ICT challenges
The African Insurance Organisation has long warned that lack of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure is holding the African insurance market back. The additional challenge of getting legacy systems to provide improved risk management and...
Sage VIP awards top WC partners
At a prestigious event held in Cape Town on 21 November, Sage VIP, leading supplier of payroll and human resource management solutions, awarded its top performing partners for 2013 in the Western Cape region. The reputable awards recognise partners for their...
Getting read for true convergence
Technology convergence in the workplace has come a long way since the days when separate technologies such as voice (telephony), data and video were united onto a single network. Now, says Debbie Pretorius, GM at MWeb Business, convergence is moving rapidly towards...
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