Digital infrastructure specialist Vertiv has appointed its former South East Africa regional director, Wojtek Piorko, as its new MD for Africa with immediate effect. Piorko takes over the reins on the continent from Pierre Havenga who will be leaving the company at...

South Africa’s economic activity, measured in the monthly BankservAfrica Economic Transactions Index (BETI), declined on a monthly and quarterly basis in March and reached its lowest point in almost two years. “The BETI reached an index level of 130,2, the lowest...

Marketing leaders struggle to make progress in the utilisation of their marketing technology (martech) stack capabilities, according to Gartner. In fact, the latest Gartner Marketing Technology Survey 2019 findings reveal that marketing leaders report utilising only...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Airbnb have announced a significant agreement to support the Olympic Movement through to 2028. The nine-year, five-Games partnership is designed to create a new standard for hosting that will be a win for host cities, a...

Fujitsu and Riken have announced that a prototype of the supercomputer Fugaku being jointly developed by the two parties took number one in the Green500, a global ranking based on the energy efficiency of supercomputers. The ranking was announced today at SC19, an...

Today's B2B buyers are defying the traditional sequential progression of sales stages, according to Gartner. With easy access to a wealth of quality information, buyers engage with sellers less frequently, and often revisit buying tasks that were traditionally...

Cell C and MTN have concluded a roaming agreement that enables network innovation, promotes efficient network infrastructure utilisation and sustainable investment in network infrastructure. In 2018, Cell C and MTN entered into an initial roaming agreement that...

The Jack Ma Foundation has hosted its first annual Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) grand finale, awarding $1-million in prize money to 10 entrepreneurs from across Africa. The ANPI is a flagship initiative of the Jack Ma Foundation, created by Jack Ma after...

Delivering economic growth in Africa requires home-grown businesses to scale up. A new report written by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), "Promise and perils: Scaling up businesses in sub-Saharan Africa", examines the factors enabling businesses in the region to...

Enterprise expectations of managed service providers (SPs), along with their ecosystem of public cloud provider partners, is shifting and will drive fundamental changes in both how buyers consume cloud services and providers position their business models in meeting...