A global survey conducted in May 2022 by MARCO has found that the Covid-19 pandemic ushered in a new era of online shopping, cashless payments, and the general growth of the digital ecosystem. As more and more transactions move online, the importance of privacy and...

An updated forecast for the worldwide smartphone market from IDC is showing a more prolonged recovery than previously expected. According to the latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker forecast, shipments of smartphones will decline 9,1% in 2022, a reduction...

Kathy Gibson is at IDC Directions in Woodmead - Digital transformation is now common practice, and just about every organisation is the world is doing it in some form or another. In fact, spending on digital transformation is forecast to reach almost $2-trillion...

Microsoft has cancelled its channel partner agreement with EOH Mthombo. The software company has served the EOH group company with 30 days’ notice, although EOH says it hasn’t offered any reasons for the contract termination. “The effect of this notice, if acted on,...

More young South African working professionals are willing to relocate for work compared to their contemporaries around the rest of the world. This is according to new research by the The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and The Network, in association with...

There was a 13% decline in the overall number of DDoS attacks during the last quarter of 2018 compared with the statistics from the previous year. However, the Kaspersky Lab DDoS Q4 Report indicates that the duration of mixed and HTTP flood attacks is growing, which...

The value of blockchain in the financial sector reached $1,9-billion in 2017, according to business information provider IHS Markit. With the projected increase in the number of blockchain projects expected to launch and become commercially deployed in the coming...

Information and communications technology (ICT) spending by service providers will reach $426-billion by 2022, representing average growth of 6% per year, as the ongoing shift from on-premise IT management to the "as-a-service" model continues to gather pace in many...

Mustek has issued a trading statement alerting shareholders that earnings will be higher than last year. The company states that, for the six months ended 31 December 2018, headline earnings per share is expected to be between 15% and 25% higher than the previous...

South African-born and Silicon Valley-based global customer engagement company, Clickatell, has made three new appointments to its board as it enters its next phase of growth and global expansion. Michael Jordaan, financial services expert, venture capitalist and...