The Bureau for Economic Research (BER) survey of private business sentiment shows that the Business Confidence Index (BCI) for Q3 improved slightly to 33 from 27 in Q2. While the small gain is encouraging, BCI remains at sharply depressed levels with the Q3 reading...

The Institute of Directors in South Africa (IoDSA) and the King Committee say that, although they remain supportive of reform efforts in what is a highly contested area, some of the proposals contained in the Companies Act Amendment Bills 2023 relating to remuneration...

Global shipments of wearable devices grew 29.7% year over year during the first quarter of 2020 (1Q20) as total device volume reached 72,6-million units according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker....

A new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC) shows worldwide revenue from the Open Compute Project (OCP) infrastructure market will reach $33,8-billion in 2024. While year-over-year growth will slow slightly in 2020 due to capital preservation strategies...

Airports Company South Africa has put in place extensive physical measures, standard operating procedures and staff training necessary to give effect to the Alert Level 3 regulations announced by the Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula. Gopolang Peme, spokesperson for...

Nutanix's desktop as a service (DaaS) offering, now available in South Africa, will help companies to formalise the rollout of work-from-home (WFH) initiatives. Xi Frame lets CIOs deliver virtual apps and desktops to clients no matter where they are, provisioned via...

Global end-user spending on cloud-based web conferencing solutions will grow 24,3% in 2020, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. Global workplace restrictions spurred by the coronavirus pandemic will expand the cloud conferencing user base throughout 2020, but...

Prior to the coronavirus outbreak, 87% of companies revealed that flexible working is a focus for them in 2020. By Lesiba Mothata, head of strategic clients, and Craig Bentley, head of multinational consulting, both at Alexander Forbes This is according to the 2020...

South African marketers expect new regulations governing data privacy to have the biggest impact over the next 10 years. Salesforce's sixth annual global State of Marketing report reveals that, in addition, an expanded online population as more people get internet...

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced families to spend their free time mostly at home. Staying at home usually also means spending much time using different Internet connected devices. For clear reasons, children's growing online activity can cause lots of worries to...