TikTok has joined Internet eXchange Point (IXP) NAPAfrica's growing community. At the same time, NAPAfrica announced a significant milestone in its growth journey by surpassing the 4Tbps (Terabits per second) traffic milestone. NAPAfrica reached the 3Tbps traffic...

ASSAf annually awards ASSAf Science-for-Society Gold Medals for outstanding achievement in scientific thinking to the benefit of society. This year the awards were presented to two eminent scientists, Prof Richard Cowling and Prof Glenda Gray, at its Annual Awards...

Cell C's normalised earnings showed a 64% improvement to R1,8-billion its interim results for the six months to June 2020, reflecting the overall impact of the new management team's strategic focus on optimising its network as well as its emphasis on more profitable...

The best was left for last. If what is promised in the end really happens, we will have a real prospect of desperately needed prosperity and jobs, writes Leno Louw, executive director of the Free Market Foundation (FMF). If we really get reductions in spending and...

As SMEs accelerate digital transformation efforts in response to the pandemic, today Standard Bank, Mastercard and Google announced a collaboration to help them move their businesses online, accept digital payments and attract more customers. Through the...

The Covid-19 pandemic has largely proven to be an accelerator of cloud adoption and extension and will continue to drive a faster conversion to cloud-centric IT. According to a new whole cloud forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC), total worldwide...

Senior executives continued to focus intensely on a second wave of coronavirus infections around the globe and the implications for managing work as a result. In its Emerging Risks Monitor Report, Gartner surveyed 119 senior executives across most industries and...

Organisations are never the same after being hit by ransomware. In particular, the confidence of IT managers and their approach to battling cyberattacks differ significantly depending on whether or not their organisation has been attacked by ransomware. For instance,...

According to new research commissioned by Kaspersky, 92% of heads of innovations in enterprises in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region admit that their projects often fail before they are launched. Many of these innovations don't even make it past development...

Despite deliberate effort to increase diversity, organisations continue to struggle with achieving diverse leadership benches, according to Gartner. To increase diversity in leadership, HR must ensure greater diversity in the leadership pipeline and successor talent...