IT spend will breach $7trn for the first time in 2027

Worldwide IT spending is expected to reach $7,35-trillion in 2027, up 15% from 2026, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. “Collectively, the market forces are reinforcing spend around AI infrastructure, AI-enabled cloud platforms, and advanced software...

As African CEOs embrace AI, ROI is still elusive

By Kathy Gibson - African companies are in the middle of learning and adopting artificial intelligence (AI), and adapting to the changes it brings. But they are also looking beyond adoption at how to measure value from their AI investments, says Ladi Asuni, partner...

Africa moves from AI ambition to action

AI has moved from potential to proven economic value and while ambition setting is near universal across economies, execution speed is the differentiator, according to Boston Consulting Group’s The AI Maturity Matrix 2026: AI Is Transforming How Economies Develop and...

The shocking reality facing jobseekers

Of the 867 706 people who registered looking for entry-level work in retail, restaurants and quick-service outlets over a 13-month period, just 6 566 were appointed - approximately one in every 132 – and between them, they sent nearly five million applications. The...

Amazon Prime Day sales see smallest growth in 5 years

Amazon Prime Day 2021 generated the highest sales for Amazon so far but had less impact than the 2020 event. Although the e-commerce giant generated around $11,2-billion in revenue from the products sold during the two-day shopping event, Prime Day sales growth...

Printing volumes rebound, but won’t hit pre-Covid levels

Total worldwide page volumes printed from office and home devices plummeted nearly 14% year over year in 2020 after several years of stable but slow decline. According to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC), 2,8-trillion pages were printed in 2020....

SA travelers opt for omni-channel booking

Research into the online and mobile travel behaviour of South African travellers reveals that, although they are increasingly turning to the Internet to book directly with service providers, they still value brick-and-mortar travel agencies. The Africa travel research...

SA gained 43 000 jobs in Q4 2015

The number of South Africans employed was up about 43 000 in the last quarter of 2015, and workers enjoyed average wages almost 7% higher than the year before. According to Statistics SA, there was an estimated 8 992 000 jobs reported in the formal non-agricultural...

Uber stops off in Mombasa and Abuja

Uber has launched in two new African cities, Mombasa in Kenya and Abuja in Nigeria – with Abuja the 400th city where the ride-sharing service is being offered. Alon Lits, GM of Uber sub-Saharan Africa, comments: “We’re really excited to be launching Uber in these two...

Redeploying old kit could raise profits

Redeploying old IT equipment in today's tough economic conditions could easily result in higher profits. There is no sense in retiring old devices when they are still working and other employees might get some use out of them. However, Xperien CEO Wale Arewa warns...

Backup appliances see modest growth

Worldwide purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) factory revenues grew 4,1% year over year totalling $1,05-billion in the fourth quarter of 2015 (4Q15), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Appliance Tracker. For the...

Looming upset for financial services

A massive 83% of leaders in  from traditional financial services (FS) firms believe part of their business is at risk of being lost to standalone FinTech companies - and this rises to a staggering 95% in the case of banks. And yet FinTech innovations are not high on...

What do job-seekers really want?

The reason that people change their jobs is not cut and dried, but varies according to geography and generation. This is according to a global study from ManpowerGroup Solutions in a new paper, "Below the Surface: Emerging Global Motivators and Job Search...

Under siege, cybersecurity professionals don’t share

Although new malware continues to proliferate, only 42% of cybersecurity professional use shared cyber-threat intelligence - mainly because they are prevented from doing so by corporate policies (54%), industry regulations (24%) and a lack of information on how it...

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