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TLcom posts profits in Africa
Venture capital firm TLcom Capital (TLcom) has announced the sale of virtual identity solutions provider for mobile operators Movirtu to global mobile communications leader Blackberry, in TLcom’s second profitable exit in Africa this year. The sale sees TLcom achieve...
Lendico expands into the Netherlands
Lendico, the leading international online P2P lending platform, yesterday announced its entry into the Dutch market, as the first international platform for consumer peer to peer credit in the country. The company thus continues its international expansion, having...
RSA takes on cyber-attackers
RSA has introduced the RSA Advanced Security Operations Centre (SOC) Solution, an integrated set of technologies and services designed to help organisations identify threats before a breach can occur. As IT innovations including cloud, social, Big Data and mobile...
Financial firms need big data strategies
The majority of capital markets firms do not have big data strategies in place even though some are investing in big data for specific functional areas, says Mervyn Mooi, director at Knowledge Integration Dynamics. Those investments to date have typically focused on...
Unravelling a financial cyber-attack
A Russian company contacted Kaspersky Lab asking to investigate an incident when more than $130,000 was nearly stolen from its corporate account. The company representatives suspected malware was behind this incident. That suspicion was confirmed in the very first...
Tech set to move into the home
Consumers believe that technology and devices will drastically improve the experience of managing their homes in the coming decade. This is according to a study providing insights into how technology impacts people’s homes, workplace, cars, wearables and mobile devices, and how these technologies intersect with their online security and privacy.
SA companies scoop Dell awards
Two South African companies won when Dell celebrated its EMEA PartnerDirect Awards at a gala dinner hosted by founder, chairman and CEO Michael Dell in Brussels’ Square centre. Mark Davison reports.
Huawei takes a telecoms view of the cloud
Kathy Gibson reports from the Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai - Huawei Technologies intends for its cloud offerings to be a major part of its business going forward, and believes it has the right mix of technologies to succeed in this market. Ron Raffensperger,...
Ricoh moves to 3D printer manufacture
Ricoh has launched an additive manufacturing business focused on 3D printing, aimed specifically at the Japanese market. Ricoh will sell 3D printers and associated output services directly to manufacturing customers, as well as provide consulting services to those...
Family home could hold 500 smart devices
The falling cost of adding sensing and communications to consumer products will mean that a typical family home, in a mature affluent market, could contain several hundred smart objects by 2022. Gartner says the smart home will be an area of dramatic evolution over...
Strategy must drive employee training
South African companies should not treat e-learning as a one-size-fits-all solution for training employees in new business systems and processes, but instead regard it as one tool of many for making their business strategies come to life. That's the word from Lyndsey...
Ricoh named an MPS leader by IDC
Ricoh has again earned a leadership position in worldwide managed print and document services, according to the new IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Print and Document Services 2014 Hardcopy Vendor Assessment — Focus on Managed Workflow Services. Key factors that...
SilverBridge posts positive results
SilverBridge, a provider of software solutions to the financial services industry, has posted solid results with profit after tax of R5,9-million for the year ended 30 June 2014 compared to R2,3-million for the previous year. SilverBridge CEO Jaco Swanepoel is pleased...
TLcom posts profits in Africa
Venture capital firm TLcom Capital (TLcom) has announced the sale of virtual identity solutions provider for mobile operators Movirtu to global mobile communications leader Blackberry, in TLcom’s second profitable exit in Africa this year. The sale sees TLcom achieve...
Lendico expands into the Netherlands
Lendico, the leading international online P2P lending platform, yesterday announced its entry into the Dutch market, as the first international platform for consumer peer to peer credit in the country. The company thus continues its international expansion, having...
RSA takes on cyber-attackers
RSA has introduced the RSA Advanced Security Operations Centre (SOC) Solution, an integrated set of technologies and services designed to help organisations identify threats before a breach can occur. As IT innovations including cloud, social, Big Data and mobile...
Financial firms need big data strategies
The majority of capital markets firms do not have big data strategies in place even though some are investing in big data for specific functional areas, says Mervyn Mooi, director at Knowledge Integration Dynamics. Those investments to date have typically focused on...
Unravelling a financial cyber-attack
A Russian company contacted Kaspersky Lab asking to investigate an incident when more than $130,000 was nearly stolen from its corporate account. The company representatives suspected malware was behind this incident. That suspicion was confirmed in the very first...
Tech set to move into the home
Consumers believe that technology and devices will drastically improve the experience of managing their homes in the coming decade. This is according to a study providing insights into how technology impacts people’s homes, workplace, cars, wearables and mobile devices, and how these technologies intersect with their online security and privacy.
SA companies scoop Dell awards
Two South African companies won when Dell celebrated its EMEA PartnerDirect Awards at a gala dinner hosted by founder, chairman and CEO Michael Dell in Brussels’ Square centre. Mark Davison reports.