Wyzetalk adds another R8m in funding

Clifftop Colony Capital Partner, a Cape Town-based financial services firm focused on African venture capital and private equity investments, has completed the Series A funding round of R8-million for African social business company Wyzetalk. This brings the total...

MEA bucks trends, posts record tablet growth

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) tablet market bucked the global trend to record 77,3% year-on-year growth in shipments during the first quarter of 2014, according to the latest results from International Data Corporation (IDC). Shipments reached a total of 4-million...

IBM invention makes cloud more secure

IBM has patented a technique that helps online and cloud-based businesses improve their ability to eliminate fraud. It does this by analysing browsing behaviour to determine whether customers are who they say they are after accessing a Web site or app via a computer,...

Where are your kids going online?

Pornography and erotica tops the list of undesirable sites that children visit. This is according to a Kaspersky study analysing the Internet search patterns of young users. Ten categories of undesirable Web site content were chosen for the investigation: pornography...

Ethernet market barely moves in Q1

The worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) reached $5,2-billion in the first quarter of 2014 (1Q14), representing year-over-year growth of 0,4% and a significant seasonal decline of -12,3% quarter-over-quarter. Meanwhile, the worldwide router market fared...

Seniors need online security education

McAfee has announced its Online Safety for Silver Surfers programme – a free initiative that uses McAfee and Intel employees as volunteers to teach seniors ways to stay safe and secure while interacting online. According to a McAfee study called Fifty-Plus Booms...