Broadband access for all?

A diverse group of private and public sector players have come together to launch the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), a coalition to lead policy and regulatory reform and spur action to drive down artificially high Internet prices in developing countries. By...

Enterprises must revisit security

Kathy Gibson reports from London – The information security measures that companies used in the past won’t work in the future, and organisations are increasingly going to have to make informed compromises about their security. This is according to Neil...

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...

Firms choose hybrid cloud

Nearly half of large organisations will have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of 2017, according to Gartner. In the past three years, private cloud computing has moved from an aspiration to a tentative reality for nearly half of large organisations. Hybrid cloud...

Apple is new top global brand

Coca-Cola, which was the world’s most valuable brand for 13 consecutive years, has been bumped down to number three in the Interbrands Best Global Brands report – with Apple as the new top brand, followed by Google at number two. This year, the total value of all 100...

Mxit scores Jordaan coup

Mxit has scored a major coup with news that social media visionary Michael Jordaan, former CEO of First National Bank and recent recipient of the CNBC Africa Business Leader of the Year for Southern Africa award, will become chairman of the board. “I have been...