Android growth in emerging markets fuels smartphones
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Metrics, analytics and reporting top priorities for CFOs
CFOs and finance leaders rate metrics, analytics and reporting as their top focus area for 2025 reflecting an emphasis on delivering insight to improve business performance, according to Gartner. The research group’s latest October 2024 survey of 251 CFOs showed that...
Multiple scams target Olympics fans
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Coastal ‘zoom towns’ lead business growth
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Robust growth forecast for robot operating systems
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Every third mobile POS payment in 2028 will be made in China
Although mobile POS payments have become widely adopted among tech-savvy consumers worldwide, no country comes even close to China - the world's largest mobile payments market. In 2024, almost 570-million Chinese will use mobile wallets for POS payments - twice the...
Open Society Foundations commit $400m for Global South
The Open Society Foundations will commit $400-million over eight years to support the development of green industrial policies that contribute to economic growth in the Global South, significantly scaling up its support of economic development. The new Economic and...
EV charging points on growth trajectory
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Disparity in cyber protection between HQ, SA branches flagged
According to the latest Kaspersky study, 46% of geo-distributed businesses surveyed in South Africa identified a disparity between the levels of cyber protection across all sites - 30% of these companies admitted this problem, but didn't think it was critical; the...
Kaspersky bows out of the US market
Security software vendor Kaspersky is closing its US office. This follows last month's decision from the US Commerce Department to ban the sale of Kaspersky software in the US from the end of this week (20 July). The Russian company, which has been operating in the US...
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Tech innovation drives insurance trends
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The office as a service, not a space
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Technology priorities for enhancing the African healthcare sector
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Trends impacting the future of payroll
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Category Analyst at Ntice Search
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We are seeking a highly skilled Java Developer with experience in Cypress testing to join our client's dynamic development team in the banking sector. This role involves developing robust Java-based applications and leveraging Cypress to ensure high-quality, scalable...
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