Healthcare organisations appear to be in the early phases of cloud adoption and behind the cross-industry global respondent average. However, adoption is expected to jump from 27% to 51% in the next three years, in line with the global trend of evolving to a...

Google has announced the participants in Google for Startups Accelerator Africa Class 7. The selected startups are developing solutions in areas such as healthcare, education, fleet management, logistics automation and recruiting. The seventh class includes 15 tech...

Almost nine in ten consumers have admitted they are more likely to trust a company whose services they enjoy, new research from travel technology company Sabre Corporation has found. However, when asked about the businesses they use, just 16% said they would trust...

FNB has announced that customers who use its award winning banking app will no longer need data to access it via their smartphones from 1 July. This follows an agreement with all major mobile network operators in South Africa to zero rate access to the FNB Banking App...

Cell C has extended its commercial Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) offering across the major open access fibre networks, with additional network agreements underway. "Customers that are in areas covered by Openserve can now join those already covered by Frogfoot, Mitsol and...

Standard Bank has opened the world's first dedicated Africa China Banking Centre (ACBC) at its Simmonds Street offices in Johannesburg. The Centre will look to provide a long-awaited platform to link African and Chinese clients with China's highly networked digital...

IBM Security has announced the results of a South African study exploring the implications and effects of data breaches on businesses. Sponsored by IBM Security and conducted by Ponemon Institute, the study found that the average cost of a data breach in South Africa...

The new Petya ransomware is sweeping the globe and proving that businesses and individuals all need to be agile and responsive to the new unknowns. Gartner’s Jonathan Care offers some tips for preventing future nasties like WannaCry and Petya  which are now making use...

Mastercard has released a new whitepaper addressing the challenges and future opportunities surrounding the sharing economy. The paper is based on an investigation undertaken by Mastercard and The Future Agenda which delved into the current state and future...

China is Africa's largest economic partner but, until now, it has been a challenge to understand the full extent of the partnership due to a dearth of data. A new report by McKinsey Africa has found that its involvement is bigger and more multifaceted than previous...