Altech wins Africa Best Employer Award 2014

Altech, a division of Altron TMT has been named as a winner in the Africa Best Employer Brand Awards 2014. The awards presentation was held in Mauritius. The award recognises Altech for the importance it has placed in attracting and engaging the people it requires to...

IS to take over MWeb Business users

Internet Solutions has announced that conditional approval for the proposed transaction that will see Dimension Data acquire MWeb Business, Optinet Service Division and the Optinet Network Division from MWeb Connect has been received from the South African Competition...

What we searched in 2014

Senzo Meyiwa, Oscar Pistorius and Ebola were were the search queries topping Google’s Trending Searches of 2014. Google’s 14th Annual Year in Search takes a look at 2014 through the collective eyes of the world on the web, offering a unique perspective on the...

Riverbed to be acquired for $3,6bn

Application performance infrastructure company Riverbed Technology has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by leading private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo and Teachers’ Private Capital, the private investor department of Ontario Teachers’ Pension...

How e-commerce is transforming Africa

E-commerce is at the epicenter of Africa’s thriving economy and, with internet penetration rapidly spreading across the region, this represents huge potential which has hitherto been untapped. According to McKinsey and Co, consumer facing industries in Africa are...

Trend Micro in strategic OEM deal with HP

Trend Micro has signed a strategic OEM agreement with HP to help enterprises combat advanced targeted threats and custom malware. The HP TippingPoint Advanced Threat Appliance (ATA) damily of products leverages Trend Micro’s Deep Discovery to provide customers with a...