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Marketers fail to connect content to value
Most B2B marketers have wised up to the value of content marketing, but many are still early on in the journey from product-focused to relationship-building content marketing. According to the 2014 Forrester Research/Business Marketing Association/Online Marketing...
VMware reports increased revenue for Q2
VMware has announced financial results for the second quarter of 2014, with revenues at $1,46-billion - an increase of 17% from the second quarter of 2013. Excluding revenues attributable to Pivotal and all divestitures that occurred in 2013, revenues for the second...
China Sourcing Fair expected to grow in 2014
The fifth annual China Sourcing Fair (CSF) will be held in Johannesburg from 13 to 15 November 2014. According to organiser Global Sources, there was a 103% year-on-year increase in the Fair’s pre-registrations in 2013, which indicates a rising need for Asian-made...
Cell C chooses TNS Nextgen for roaming
Cell C has selected the TNS Nextgen portfolio of financial clearing and settlement services, including IOTRONT Inter-Operator Tariff (IOT) discount management, to address their roaming needs.The selection of TNS Nextgen for financial clearing and settlement services...
Cybersmart launches 100Mbps Internet
Internet service provider Cybersmart has launched Lightspeed, a 100Mbps uncapped fibre service. CEO, Laurie Fialkov, says that for the first time South African companies will have access to world-class broadband speeds at an internationally comparable price....
IRESS brings market data to the masses
IRESS, a principal supplier of share market and wealth management systems in Australia, Asia, Canada, New Zealand the UK and South Africa has created a Twitter tool that allows anyone following the @iress_data account to request share price information from it using...
BDS hosts Xerox Corporate Golf Challenge
Bytes Document Solutions hosted the Xerox Corporate Golf Challenge for the second time on 16 July, at the Johannesburg Country Club’s Woodmead Golf Course. This year marks the 16th year of the Xerox Corporate Golf Challenge, which consists of 12 qualifying rounds that...
SA companies need to rethink mobile security
Over the past three decades, legislatures across the world have been trying to update their legal systems to address growing concerns around how our private information is being used once handed over to companies in both the public and private sectors, says Nader...
Barclay & Clegg stores use Sage CRM
Sales and distribution of a wide range of lingerie and swimwear imported from France, Germany, Austria, Italy, England and the USA is being managed through a Sage CRM software solution implemented by business software specialist Lorge for five Barclay & Clegg...
Gartner recognises BT in Asia Pacific region
BT’s capabilities in the Asia Pacific region have been highlighted by Gartner in its latest Critical Capabilities for Asia/Pacific Network Providers report. The report evaluated 13 vendors against four critical capabilities with varying weightings- Managed MPLS VPN,...
iPhone, Mac drive record Apple revenue
Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 third quarter ended 28 June 2014, posting quarterly revenue of $37,4-billion and quarterly net profit of $7,7-billion, or $1,28 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $35,3-billion and net...
SA companies wake up to DevOps need
According to a new study conducted on behalf of CA Southern Africa, demand for DevOps is rising fast among South African organisations. The study, one of the first in South Africa to focus on DevOps, reveals that although 94% of South African respondents believe there...
Road Buddy aims to cut traffic accidents
IBM has announced that its entrepreneur programme has helped produce a new vehicle alert system and mobile application called Road Buddy, intended to address the growing need for a more proactive approach to road safety.
Marketers fail to connect content to value
Most B2B marketers have wised up to the value of content marketing, but many are still early on in the journey from product-focused to relationship-building content marketing. According to the 2014 Forrester Research/Business Marketing Association/Online Marketing...
VMware reports increased revenue for Q2
VMware has announced financial results for the second quarter of 2014, with revenues at $1,46-billion - an increase of 17% from the second quarter of 2013. Excluding revenues attributable to Pivotal and all divestitures that occurred in 2013, revenues for the second...
China Sourcing Fair expected to grow in 2014
The fifth annual China Sourcing Fair (CSF) will be held in Johannesburg from 13 to 15 November 2014. According to organiser Global Sources, there was a 103% year-on-year increase in the Fair’s pre-registrations in 2013, which indicates a rising need for Asian-made...
Cell C chooses TNS Nextgen for roaming
Cell C has selected the TNS Nextgen portfolio of financial clearing and settlement services, including IOTRONT Inter-Operator Tariff (IOT) discount management, to address their roaming needs.The selection of TNS Nextgen for financial clearing and settlement services...
Cybersmart launches 100Mbps Internet
Internet service provider Cybersmart has launched Lightspeed, a 100Mbps uncapped fibre service. CEO, Laurie Fialkov, says that for the first time South African companies will have access to world-class broadband speeds at an internationally comparable price....
IRESS brings market data to the masses
IRESS, a principal supplier of share market and wealth management systems in Australia, Asia, Canada, New Zealand the UK and South Africa has created a Twitter tool that allows anyone following the @iress_data account to request share price information from it using...
BDS hosts Xerox Corporate Golf Challenge
Bytes Document Solutions hosted the Xerox Corporate Golf Challenge for the second time on 16 July, at the Johannesburg Country Club’s Woodmead Golf Course. This year marks the 16th year of the Xerox Corporate Golf Challenge, which consists of 12 qualifying rounds that...