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Microsoft named South Africa's top employer
Microsoft named South Africa's top employer
The Top Employers Institute has recognised Microsoft SA as the country's number one employer, regardless of sector or organisational size... read
Five mobile security myths busted
Five mobile security myths busted

Doros Hadjizenonos

Think your enterprise mobile devices are secure? Think again. The iOS and Android devices your employees use for work purposes... Read

Unique socio-economic challenges driving IoT in SA
Unique socio-economic challenges driving IoT in SA

The South African research findings of Vodafone's fourth annual Internet of Things (IoT) Barometer Report, a global survey of business sentiment... Read

African innovation leads the way at annual Accenture conference
African innovation leads the way at annual Accenture conference

Technology is the greater equaliser. Today a poor farmer in Kenya, using a phone, has access to more information than a US president in the 1990s... Read


Sustainability month
Jeri Curry, president and CEO, Enset (Image source: YouTube)
Why NGOs need to embrace digital now

Sindy Peters

From garnering greater support through transparency to building online credibility with funders... read
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App and website development
Evaluating the app-opportunity
Evaluating the app-opportunity

Lynette Hundermark

"There's an app for that" is one of the most common phrases exchanged amongst smartphone owners. From hailing a taxi... read
Cyber Security
Twitter, Amazon, other top websites shut in cyber attack
Twitter, Amazon, other top websites shut in cyber attack
Major internet services including Twitter, Spotify and Amazon suffered service interruptions and outages as a US internet provider came under a cyber attack... read
Data Management
Claude Schuck, regional manager for Africa at Veeam.
VeeamON Tour highlights importance of uptime in modern business
Veeam Software, provider of availability solutions for the always-on enterprise, hosted its VeeamON Tour conference in Fourways... read
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Data centres of the future - backups in a flash

Anthea Nadin

IT managers today are under increasing pressure to deliver value and drive businesses forward. The data centre is an essential part of enabling such agility... read
Hardware
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Google hawks hardware in real-world 'showroom'
It's not exactly a store, but the Google "showroom" that opened on Thursday, 20 October, in New York is the internet giant's first real-world shop and a step into terrain where rival Apple has excelled... read
Samsung to compensate suppliers hit by Note 7 crisis
Samsung to compensate suppliers hit by Note 7 crisis
Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday it would compensate suppliers hit by the decision to scrap its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones... read
Internet
Mozilla launches Equal Rating Innovation Challenge with $250,000 prize
Mozilla launches Equal Rating Innovation Challenge with $250,000 prize
Mozilla has launched its 'Equal Rating Innovation Challenge', which offers $250,000 in prize monies split into three categories... read
Tech Startups
Exploring Africa's fintech frontiers
Exploring Africa's fintech frontiers

Nicci Botha

Entrepreneur Nicole Anderson returns to her African roots to explore the fintech potential on the continent... read
#BeyondRetail 2016: Lessons from SA's oldest e-commerce company
#BeyondRetail 2016: Lessons from SA's oldest e-commerce company

Leigh Andrews

Netflorist MD Ryan Bacher entertained #BeyondRetail2016 attendees with two of the business hacks that played a role in how they entered the e-commerce realm back in 1999 and how they shifted from being 'internet guys' to real-world retailers... read
Technology
Home of the future
Home of the future

Issued by Private Property

How the homes of the future are going to be run, and what this means for us... read
Altron CEO Robbie Venter.
Altron asset sale plan pays off

Thabiso Mochiko

Alllied Electronics' (Altron's) turnaround strategy is yielding positive results as the group reverses a headline loss per share... read
Interview: Sensing business opportunities with IoT
Interview: Sensing business opportunities with IoT
Computers used to rely on people to feed them information. In an Internet of Things (IoT) environment, no human beings are necessary to feed that information... read
Telecommunications
Vodacom head rejects open access call
Vodacom head rejects open access call

Thabiso Mochiko

Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub has criticised a call for mobile network operators to make their infrastructure available to other companies, saying the process, called open access, has never worked anywhere in the world... read
Blue Label reveals Cell C in the black
Blue Label reveals Cell C in the black

Marc Hasenfuss

Cell C, which trades in a distant third place in the South African cellphone market, suddenly looks a more engaging proposition... read
Business
#FeesMustFall: Business calls for a good, hard look at the skills the country really needs
#FeesMustFall: Business calls for a good, hard look at the skills the country really needs

Ryan Ravens

Can we justify free tertiary education, when there's a greater need for a robust social security system? Does SA need more poets and politicians, when artisans are what will grow the economy?... read
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