Africa lags Western Europe in PC spend

Sales of PC systems, including desktops, notebooks, netbooks and workstations, increased by an impressive 20,2% through Western European distribution markets for Q2 2014 compared to Q2 2013, following a much-welcomed return to growth in the first quarter of the year....

Financial management in Gauteng spotlight

MEC for Finance Barbara Creecy has vowed to strengthen financial management in the province, deal decisively with incidents of fraud and corruption, and pay suppliers on time to support Premier Makhura’s vision of radical transformation of the public sector. Briefing...

Adapt IT looking to higher earnings

Adapt IT Holdings has published a trading statement alerting shareholders to increased earnings for the year ended 30 June 2014. The company issued the statement this morning, with earnings per share expected to increase by between 50% and 60%, from the 22,25 cents...

New MPOS solution meets safety standards

Payment services provider (PSP) SureSwipe has launched SureSwipe Move – believed to be the first mobile point of sale (MPOS) solution in South Africa to achieve point-to-point encryption (P2PE) certification from the PCI Security Standards Council. This means that...

How can manufacturers leverage BDA?

A new IDC report shines a spotlight on the current application of big data and analytics (BDA) across manufacturing segments, and identifies some of the ways in which leading manufacturers are approaching BDA to maximise its potential. Business Strategy: Making...