What’s your online persona?

What’s your online persona?

Is there such a thing as an online persona? According to a new global study from MasterCard, the answer is yes. The Digital Sharing and Trust Project shows that consumers actually shed their “real-world” identities when they go online to assume “digital personas” that...

So you want to be a global CEO?

Wits University has emerged as the best place to study in Africa if you have aspirations of becoming a global CEO. Wits was announced as being positioned among the world top 100 universities, coming in at number 24, in a new ranking published by the Times Higher...

SA connects with social media

Facebook has become the biggest social network in South Africa, seeing its strongest growth yet in the past year, according to the SA Social Media Landscape 2014 research study, by World Wide Worx and Fuseware. The study showed that Facebook has 9,4-million active...

Understanding youth unemployment

Between 60% and 65% of young people in sub-Saharan Africa, aged 15 to 35 years, are unemployed or under-employed. Researchers from the University of Cape Town are conducting a study that they believe could help avert this potential time bomb.  Funded by a grant of...

IDC looks at the future of the PC

As IDC looks at the future of computing, the advancement of computing no longer starts and ends with the personal computer. Since the first smartphone in 2000, and the introduction of the tablet a decade later, users have witnessed an explosion of mobile form factors...