It is vital for South African businesses to take the right steps to protect their operations from potentiality catastrophic financial loss. This is the word from Jurgen Hellweg, CEO of Western National Insurance, who says that small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)...

Spending on artificial intelligence in the US will grow to $120-billion by 2025, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26% over the 2021-2025 forecast period. Moreover, all 19 US industries profiled in the latest Worldwide Artificial Intelligence...

On 22 May, the Western Cape was declared a disaster area as the ongoing drought saw dam levels drop below 10%. This prompted the local government to implement level 4 water restrictions amid warnings that the drought could continue well into 2018. Kroshlen Moodley,...

Project Isizwe, responsible for implementing Tshwane's free WiFi project, is claiming a R1-billion saving on connectivity for the metro's citizens. Backing up this claim, the company points out that Tshwane Free WiFi has carried 5 157Tb of data since inception in...

Seacom is bringing its high-speed fibre Internet access services to business and home users in the southern areas of Johannesburg, starting with the rollout of 8km in Meyersdal, Alberton. The last-mile fibre network will pass several businesses, residential...

The month of July is labelled as National Savings Month by the South African Savings Institute - but just one month ago South Africa entered a technical recession. Nosibusiso Ngqondoyi, head of research at Novare Investments, reflects on the significance of saving and...

South Africa has one of the worst savings rates in the world, according to statistics released by the South African Reserve Bank, which found that the country's savings rate is only 15,4% of GDP - far below the desired rate of 25%. As July marks South Africa's...

The number of North American and European homes with a smart thermostat grew by 67% to 10,1-million in 2016, according to research from Berg Insight. The North American market recorded a 64% growth in the installed base of smart thermostats to 7,8-million. In Europe,...

With digital transformation front of mind for the majority of businesses nowadays, Dell EMC and Intel have joined forces for two exclusive events explaining the benefits of it to business partners and customers. The first event takes place in Johannesburg tomorrow (18...

MTN has warned customers to beware of a new scam doing the rounds. In this scam, a supposed MTN call centre agent requests the customer’s security details under the pretext that they are blocking the processing of a SIM swap request that is being made on the...