FNB customers once again hit R3-billion in purchases on Black Friday, in line with last year's highest spend peak. FNB also saw a positive shift in usage of the FNB Virtual Card, with a 94% year on year increase in customer spend over Black Friday weekend....

Nedbank has identified a small number of significant trends in consumer spending behaviour during the recent Black Friday period, which it says not only point to the continuing evolution of South Africa's retail landscape, but also to a greater awareness by South...

Hybrid cloud is still the frontrunner as the ideal IT infrastructure model, according to 86% of respondents to Nutanix's third global Enterprice Cloud Index survey. The study measures enterprise progress with adopting private, hybrid and public clouds. This year,...

Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 18,4% in 2021 to total $304,9-billion, up from $257,5-billion in 2020, according to Gartner. "The pandemic validated cloud's value proposition," says Sid Nag, research vice-president at Gartner....

The 5G consumer market could be worth $31-trillion by 2030 globally, according to the new "Harnessing the 5G Consumer Potential" report from Ericsson ConsumerLab. The report estimates that communications service providers (CSPs) could earn $3,7-trillion of that total...

The pandemic has had a potentially-devastating effect on workers in the gig economy. This is according to "The Digital Hustle: Gig Worker Financial Lives Under pressure", a report from fintech investor Flourish that shwos the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic on the...

Decades of work and hard-won gains into achieving gender equality in the labour market in South Africa could be derailed by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is according to a research paper by the Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit...

There are major risks associated with digitalisation, with 41% of respondents in a new survey admitting their organisation has already experienced enforcement investigations by regulators because of technology that was poorly on-boarded and/or implemented. According...

Robotic process automation (RPA) is expected to be one of the hot trends in 2021, as organisations across the globe look to gain competitive advantage. Automation has the potential to streamline business processes, freeing up time, money and talent, while ensuring...

Worldwide spending on augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) is forecast to accelerate out of the pandemic, growing from just over $12.-billion this year to $72,8-billion in 2024. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Augmented and...