Canal+ makes a firm offer for Multichoice
Multichoice and French media company Canal+ have reached an agreement by which Canal+ would acquire the Multichoice group, offering shareholders R125.00 per share - a 66,6% premium over the R75.00 closing price on 1 February 2024. The announcement constitutes a firm...
EdTech transforming into $350bn industry
The global education technology (edtech) market is expected to reach $348,41-billion by 2030 - growing at a CAGR of 13,4% from 2024 to 2030 - according to a new report by Grand View Research. The process of learning is evolving gradually in line with advances in...
Scammers get up to some new tricks
Amid continued disruption in supply chains and mail services, scammers sought to use this fact to steal money and credit card details during the second quarter (Q2) of 2021. Since last year, scammers have been taking advantage of disruption in deliveries to convince...
The next normal for passenger transportation
Covid-19 has negatively impacted passenger transportation, with the industry one of the most affected in terms of revenue losses. The transit systems in many European cities have seen 70% to 90% ridership losses and airline passenger load factors dropped dramatically...
Serame Taukobong is Telkom’s group CEO-designate
Telkom has announced the appointment of Serame as group CEO-designate with effect from 01 October 2021. Sello Moloko, chairperson of Telkom, says the organisation is pleased that its extensive search process confirmed the calibre of Telkom's people. "Serame is a...
AI, cybersecurity drive M&A activity
In the first six months of 2021, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the tech, media and telecom (TMT) sector totaled $555-billion, according to GlobalData - that's a huge 169% rise from the same period in 2020. The data and analytics company notes that, in H1 2021,...
SA sees 42% increase in financial malware
A combination of increasingly sophisticated propagation technologies and continued economic uncertainties resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic have seen the number of financial malware attacks reported in South Africa during the first half of 2021 increase by more...
Chinese threat actors compromise telecoms providers
Security specialist Cybereason has discovered several previously unidentified cyberattack campaigns infiltrating major telecommunications providers across Southeast Asia. Similar to the recent SolarWinds and Kaseya attacks, the threat actors first compromised...
AI sheds new light on Parkinson’s research
IBM Research is working with the Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) on a new AI model that groups typical symptom patterns of Parkinson's disease. The research is detailed in the paper "Discovery of Parkinson's disease states using machine...
Does South Africa need an economic CODESA?
The recent civil unrest throughout various parts of the country indicates the harsh reality that the needs of South Africa's majority are not being met. This is according to former Chief Negotiator to end apartheid and lawyer, Roelf Meyer, who says that for those...
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JDA announces Cloud Optimise services
JDA Software Group, The Supply Chain Company, has announced the release of six JDA Cloud Optimise services. JDA Cloud Optimise services enable customers to enhance and transform their supply chains by expanding their internal teams to include JDA expertise and...
Flurry Analytics for BlackBerry 10 released
BlackBerry and Flurry have announced that Flurry Analytics for BlackBerry 10 is expected to become available by the end of Q2. Flurry Analytics is a tool developers can easily integrate with their apps to enable access to user data. It provides developers a...
NetApp launches Connect solution
The rapid influx of mobile devices into the workplace offers individual employees convenience and productivity, but it presents significant challenges for IT organisations that are attempting to curtail data leakage and prevent increased operational costs associated...
Can mobile enterprise apps keep up?
The unprecedented adoption of tablet PCs means the fully mobile enterprise is now possible. But true enterprise mobility also requires access to full ERP functionality on the road, says HansaWorld. With tablets, smartphones and phablets moving to surpass PC...
Why the cloud requires agentless security
Virtualised desktops, servers, data centres and cloud computing solutions should be afforded the same level of security as physical machines, is the word from global security specialists Trend Micro. According to Trend Micro country manager, Gregory Anderson, there...
Nedbank’s Approve-it reduces phishing
It is a year since the launch of its enhanced Internet banking security feature Approve-it, and Nedbank reported a reduction of 99% in phishing losses when compared to the same period in 2011. The bank also confirmed that over 16-million secure online transactions...
The necessary art of data exploration
A critical first step frequently overlooked by project managers is understanding the data that sits in their hands. Companies today are investing heavily in tools and people in order to improve the quality of their reporting and to deliver more actionable intelligence...
BDS launches Xerox WorkCentre 5800 MFP
Bytes Document Solutions (BDS), Africa’s leading document management technology and services company and the largest Xerox distributor in the world, has launched the new series of Xerox WorkCentre 5800 black-and-white multifunction printers (MFPs), which are enabled...
Ethiopian mine uses Q-KON services
Q-KON has been selected as the preferred provider of connectivity services to Allana Potash Afar, an Ethiopian subsidiary of a Canadian Corporation focussed on the global acquisition of potash assets and relevant concessions. As the entrusted connectivity services...
Telkom Mobile announces BB Q10 pre-orders
Customers can now pre-order the new BlackBerry Q10 smartphone from Telkom Mobile online or in-store from 15 May 2013. The BlackBerry Q10 will be available from Telkom Mobile via Telkom Direct, Telkom Express and 8ta stores on 1 June 2013. The smartphone will be...
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