After years of inadequate action in combating the threat of climate change, players in all sectors are waking up to the challenge. For instance, in 2019 only 29 countries representing 10% of global emissions had made net-zero pledges, while today, 92 countries...

Blockchain-based insurance will transform claims administration, saving $10-billion in costs globally by 2024, up from $1,1-billion in 2021. A new report from Juniper Research finds that insurance providers will increasingly leverage the benefits of increased process...

The Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services has responded to an IT-Online article quoting the Free Market Foundation on ICT policy in South Africa: The article headlined “FMF Challenges Cwele on Policies” that was published on your website on 27 February...

Cell C has signed a restructuring agreement with its key lenders, majority bondholders and new equity investors, which will see the company reduce its debt to approximately R6-billion. The agreement sets out the framework and agrees the key principles by which the...

Accenture's Dynamic Digital Consumers Survey revealed that if a global digital giant such as Google or Amazon launched an offer comparable to their mobile operator, 44% of respondents would leave their provider, forming a gloomy outlook for communications service...

A growing preference among customers to move through the buying journey in their own time using their own preferred channels has given brands a smaller window of time to engage with them. Sales and marketing teams need to work more closely together to better...

EMEA service providers are encouraged to step up their defences against large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) hijacks. The call to arms, from application security experts F5 Networks, comes in the wake of the recent Mirai botnet, which infected hundreds of thousands of...

Cross-border e-commerce offers aggregate growth rates not available in most other retail markets, with cross-border retail volumes are predicted to increase at an annual average rate of 25% between 2015 and 2020 (from $300-billion to $900-billion - twice the pace of...

London extended its lead over New York and a resurgent Tokyo to be named the world's most innovative city in 2016-2017 in the 10th annual Innovation Cities Index, released by global innovation agency 2thinknow. The top three cities overcame previous winner Silicon...

Cell C has issued the following statement on behalf of Mohammed Hariri, chairman of Cell C and Oger Telecom: The Cell C board has noted the media statement from CellSAf regarding the proposed recapitalisation plan of Cell C. The accusations against the Cell C board...