The Convergence Partners Digital Infrastructure Fund (CPDIF) has entered into a definitive agreement with Alviva Holdings to acquire 100% of Datacentrix Group. The acquisition is alongside the existing Datacentrix management team that has successfully led the company...

Generative AI (GenAI) was a groundbreaking development last year, with the emergence of popular chatbots such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard taking the technology world by storm. However, using the large language models (LLMs) powering these chatbots has...

Women have been hardest hit by the impact of Covid-19 lockdowns, according to the National Income Dynamics Study - Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM), a study tracking income, employment and welfare in South Africa. "Although survival and saving jobs is...

Facebook has blocked news sites and sharing in Australia and New Zealand as those countries push to make platforms pay for news content. By William Easton, MD of Facebook Australia & New Zealand, says the move is in response to Australia's proposed new Media...

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reported on February 17 that consumer price inflation increased from 3,1% year-on-year (y-o-y) in December 2020 to 3,2% y-o-y in January 2021. Lullu Krugel, chief economist for PwC Strategy& Africa, and Dr Christie Viljoen, PwC...

A massive 70% of customer service and support employees want to continue to work from home (WFH) at least once a week after the pandemic ends, according to a survey by Gartner. In September 2020, Gartner surveyed 5 000 employees, including 550 customer service...

Most companies have been following through with the work from home system since the start of the pandemic. As such, software has ensured that digital transformation becomes a success for the businesses who have had to adapt to digital transformation as a result of the...

In a blow to residential housing landlords but providing some respite for tenants, negative rental escalation has arrived. According to specialised credit bureau TPN, residential rentals were -0,75% cheaper on average for the last quarter of 2020. However, tenants...

CoCre8 has announced a partnership with Absolute Software, adding endpoint resilience capabilities to its range of edge and security solutions offerings. Embedded in the firmware of devices from over 25 leading PC manufacturers, Absolute is an undeletable endpoint...

Kathy Gibson reports – In a rapidly changing world, technology is at the centre of the way we live and work – and the unprecedented impact of Covid-19 coupled with other new concerns and risks has created a new era of volatility and uncertainty. At the virtual global...