A report by the GSM Association (GSMA) and the UK's Department for Business and Trade highlighted the impact of e-commerce on micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to help them grow new markets, profitability and resilience. However, in Africa, online retail as...

A new study published in Preventive Medicine journal found that four years of consistently inadequate sleep in corporate executives was associated with adverse cardiometabolic health. Led by Paula Pienaar, a PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Vrije...

Google has announced plans to help businesses, job seekers, educational institutions and vulnerable populations as they grapple with the "new normal" and begin to rebuild and recover from the impact of the Covid-19 crisis locally and across the continent. The tech...

In the current uncertain environment, security and risk leaders must focus on balancing risk, trust and opportunity to help maintain the ability of their organisations to function as a trusted participant in the digital economy, according to Gartner. "Through the...

Parents have always managed to set geographical boundaries - where their children could go and where they could not - back in time. Nowadays there is another opportunity to monitor the child's whereabouts - to track the location of them using special software. Yet,...

TikTok's US operations are likely to be run by Oracle, which is said to have edged Microsoft out of negotiations. The deal, which hasn't been confirmed yet, is believed to be a corporate restructuring arrangement with a stake in the new US business and not an outright...

In its latest forecast release, Canalys projects global 5G smartphone shipments will reach nearly 280-million units in 2020, with 62% of these in Greater China, followed by North America and EMEA. Overall smartphone volumes are projected to decline 10,7% in 2020...

While artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionise the disease diagnosis process, its current value proposition remains below the expectations of most radiologists. IDTechEx gathered the performance measurements of over 35 AI algorithms and found...

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, global market revenue for enterprise external OEM storage systems declined 5% year over year to just under $6,3-billion during the second quarter of 2020...

Europe's largest distributors sold significantly more gaming monitors in July 2020 than in the same period last year, according to the latest research by Context. The increases coincided with the time when the pandemic, and measures taken for its containment, began...