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Universities target procurement savings
Higher education buying departments expect to save hundreds of millions of rands through PURCO SA Online, their new e-procurement and travel management platform. Purchasing Consortium Southern Africa (PURCO SA), the higher education procurement consortium, concluded...
Is Africa the emerging market of the decade?
While markets like India, Brazil, Turkey, Indonesia and Russia have failed to deliver as emerging markets; Africa is seemingly more buoyant in relative comparison. Forbes, in its report on Africa’s Emerging Market Boom, says that Africa is currently home to five of...
Trends driving African business strategy
Only a few years ago, Africa was viewed as the potential pitfall for investors; today it is dubbed as "the fastest growing continent". What has brought about this change and what have businesses done differently to act as the catalyst for this rapid growth? These key...
New trading statement from Telkom
Telkom SA has issued a trading statement informing shareholders that earnings per share will be higher than last year. On 18 March, the company issued a trading statement advising shareholders that results to be reported on for the year ended 31 March 2014 would be at...
Innovation Factory to showcase global tech
T-Systems in South Africa, The Innovation Hub and Maxum Business Incubator have launched the Innovation Factory, a local showcase of the international T-Systems Innovation Centre in Munich, tailored to the South African market. The Innovation Factory, a collaboration...
SMB Forum aims to foster relationships
HP South Africa has set up the HP SMB Forum – a council initiated in partnership with Intel and Microsoft to further the interests of domestic small to medium businesses, while strengthening their relationships with technology and technical solutions providers. This...
FoneWorx buys into analytics market
FoneWorx Holdings has acquired a 44% stake in Living Facts, which was formed in 2001 as a market research corporation providing quantitative and qualitative services. The three senior directors of Living Facts have a collective experience of 50 years in research and...
Smartphone sales still on the increase
According to a recently published mobile phone forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, worldwide smartphone shipments will reach a total of 1,2-billion units in 2014, marking a 23,1% increase from the 1-billion...
Intelligent security spend to top $1,4bn
A consistent bombardment of unknown, targeted and adaptive cyber threats are wreaking havoc in the enterprise and driving the expansion of threat intelligence security services (TISS). These services are specifically designed to detect advanced persistent threats...
Payment revolution on the horizon
The African technology market has emerged on the back of the continent’s mobile networks and is unlocking economic potential in some of the most unconventional ways. KPMG conducted primary research and found that sub-Saharan Africa is the fastest-growing mobile market...
Key managed services trends from SunGard
South Africa’s financial institutions continue to face a wide range of business challenges that are driving the need to manage risk, control costs, accelerate innovation and enhance operational efficiency. As firms strive to meet these growing requirements and build...
F5 Networks acquires Defense.Net
F5 Networks has announced that it has acquired Defense.Net, a privately-held provider of cloud-based security services for protecting data centres and Internet applications from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The advanced technologies and operational...
Where are tomorrow’s software engineers?
The struggle to increase the number of graduating software engineers has been an on-going challenge throughout the last two decades. The Jo'burg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) director and head of Software Engineering at Wits University, Prof Barry Dwolatzky...
Universities target procurement savings
Higher education buying departments expect to save hundreds of millions of rands through PURCO SA Online, their new e-procurement and travel management platform. Purchasing Consortium Southern Africa (PURCO SA), the higher education procurement consortium, concluded...
Is Africa the emerging market of the decade?
While markets like India, Brazil, Turkey, Indonesia and Russia have failed to deliver as emerging markets; Africa is seemingly more buoyant in relative comparison. Forbes, in its report on Africa’s Emerging Market Boom, says that Africa is currently home to five of...
Trends driving African business strategy
Only a few years ago, Africa was viewed as the potential pitfall for investors; today it is dubbed as "the fastest growing continent". What has brought about this change and what have businesses done differently to act as the catalyst for this rapid growth? These key...
New trading statement from Telkom
Telkom SA has issued a trading statement informing shareholders that earnings per share will be higher than last year. On 18 March, the company issued a trading statement advising shareholders that results to be reported on for the year ended 31 March 2014 would be at...
Innovation Factory to showcase global tech
T-Systems in South Africa, The Innovation Hub and Maxum Business Incubator have launched the Innovation Factory, a local showcase of the international T-Systems Innovation Centre in Munich, tailored to the South African market. The Innovation Factory, a collaboration...
SMB Forum aims to foster relationships
HP South Africa has set up the HP SMB Forum – a council initiated in partnership with Intel and Microsoft to further the interests of domestic small to medium businesses, while strengthening their relationships with technology and technical solutions providers. This...
FoneWorx buys into analytics market
FoneWorx Holdings has acquired a 44% stake in Living Facts, which was formed in 2001 as a market research corporation providing quantitative and qualitative services. The three senior directors of Living Facts have a collective experience of 50 years in research and...