Defences improve, but ransomware still threatens SA businesses

Almost two-thirds (63%) of ransomware incidents in South Africa resulted in data being encrypted over the past year, according to the new State of Ransomware in South Africa 2026 report from Sophos. This is above the global average of 56% and an increase from the 60%...
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20 years on and gender gap parity is fracturing

Twenty years after the World Economic Forum first measured the global gender gap, the world is closer to parity than ever, but progress is fragile, with gains reversing in some areas, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2026. Women now reach senior leadership in...
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Unemployed are least likely to prioritise betting spending-limit tools

The online betting group most likely to prioritise debt repayment with a windfall is also the group least likely to ask regulators or operators for spending controls, according to new research from Softswiss. Fewer than four in 10 unemployed South Africans think...
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AI-first enterprises will win big if they do it right

Kathy Gibson reports - Enterprises that are reshaping and reinventing business domains around artificial intelligence (AI) are on track to experience great return on investment (ROI) and become more competitive. But there is a currently a big disconnect between AI...
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Africa the ‘enduring epicentre of mobile money’

Feb 25, 2022

Africa and Asia are the home of mobile money, where the shift to digital wallets is in full swing in countries with high smartphone penetration, and where consumers are embracing digital payments. This is the finding of a white paper published by TerraPay with IBS,...

Fourth radio interface technology added to 5G standards

Feb 25, 2022

Members of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have approved a fourth technology as part of ongoing standards development for 5G mobile services. Known as "DECT 5G-SRIT", the new technology supports a range of uses, from wireless telephony and audio...

SA lags in Digital IQ

May 24, 2017

Organisations around the world have not done enough to keep up with the digital era - and leadership is falling short, with many chief executives not yet fully engaged in the initiatives of digital transformation. African companies match their global peers in many...

SA left behind on the SDN adoption curve

May 24, 2017

Software-defined networking (SDN) is taking the world by storm as organisations seek greater control, performance and management across the data centre and the network; and recognise the benefits SDN can offer in terms of cost savings on capital and operating costs,...

Chinese vendors lead smartphone surge

May 24, 2017

Global sales of smartphones to end users totalled 380-million units in the first quarter of 2017, a 9,1% increase over the first quarter of 2016, according to Gartner. Mobile phone buyers are spending more to get a better phone, resulting in the rise in average...

Poor controls doubled IoT DDoS attacks

May 24, 2017

The number of denial-of-service (DoS) or distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) cyber-attacks doubled from 3% to 6% in 2016, due to the lack of sufficient security controls in Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Of all IoT attacks, 60% originated from Asia, 21% from EMEA...

Mobile could solve many of Africa’s issues

May 24, 2017

Mobile technology presents Africa with an unsurpassed opportunity to address its most stubborn development challenges: health, poverty, hunger and education. That's the view of Vuyani Jarana, chief officer of Vodacom Business, who points out that while major strides...

Industry dominance and the privacy puzzle

May 24, 2017

Data has become the most valuable commodity in the world, just as oil was a century ago - and the concerns are similar, with most of the world's data in the hands of a few giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. NordVPN examines the issue and offers...

Huge Group reports better revenue, profits

May 24, 2017

The Huge Group has reported a revenue increase of 14% for the year ended 28 February 2017. Gross profit margins were up 18% from 41% to 48%, and EBITDA margin increased 42% from 15,1% to 21,4%. Operating profit was 84% higher, while the operating profit margin...

Digital Bank services from Deloitte

May 24, 2017

Deloitte has launched Digital Bank, a new services offering for banks to accelerate their digital transformation. It is based on the Salesforce Intelligent Customer Success Platform and uses the Salesforce Financial Services Cloud, to help banks provide tailored...

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