The world is currently facing one of the harshest economic climates experienced since the 2008 global financial crisis, raising concerns that more people may turn to fraud to address the financial pressure they are experiencing. "Rising inflation and the current war...

A new study from Juniper Research has found that losses from global roaming fraud are anticipated to exceed $8-billion by 2028; driven by the increase in bilateral roaming agreements for data-intensive use cases over 5G networks. In turn, it predicts fraudulent data...

According to research by International Data Corporation (IDC), the Western European printer and multifunction (MFP) market declined by 6,9% in unit terms in 1Q20 compared with the same period a year ago, to give a market size of 4,33-million units. This figure is in...

Bitcoin's halving event on Monday underscores that the "long-term future of cryptocurrencies is secure". This is the word from Nigel Green , CEO and founder of deVere Group, as the world's supply of bitcoin was cut on Monday. The halving event, occurring only every...

The Publishers Associations of South Africa, an affiliate of the Copyright Coalition of South Africa, has served cease and desist letters on the administrators of the WhatsApp group called "Die Boek Klub" as part of an ongoing effort to curb an explosion in piracy...

Global retail sales are expected to drop by $2,1-trillion in 2020, according to a new report from Forrester. China is the worst affected country in the Asia Pacific region, with $192-billion of retail sales (excluding restaurants, automobile, and gasoline) lost from...

Organisations can differentiate themselves from competitors during the Covid-19 pandemic by leveraging nine ongoing trends, according to Gartner. These trends are broken into three categories: accelerating trends, new impacts that were not previously part of the...

The Vodacom group has reported group revenue up 4,8% (3,5 %) year ended 31 March 2020, supported by group service revenue growth of 5% (3,5%). The group also added 5,9-million customers, to serve a combined 116-million customers. Total financial services customers up...

Countries should maintain essential health care to non-Covid-19 patients while dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. This is a message from Secretary-General Patricia Scotland ahead of the Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting taking place virtually on 14 May. Some...

The second quarter of 2020 will see the largest volume of liquids production cuts, including shut-in production, in the history of the oil industry. IHS Markit now expects much as 17 MMb/d total liquids output (which includes nearly 14 MMb/d of crude oil production)...