by Kathy Gibson | Oct 30, 2020 | Features
For a while now, tech companies and workers have been eyeing smaller cities to escape the exorbitant real estate costs, manic lifestyles, and endless traffic jams in traditional tech hubs. By Andrew Bourne, region manager: Africa at Zoho Corporation The time is ripe...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 30, 2020 | Features
The importance of an integrated IT security strategy is steadily increasing, especially in current pandemic times. The accelerated digitalization in almost all areas of life has broadened the scope of possible attacks by hackers. With isolated bottom-up projects, it...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 30, 2020 | Features
Online scammers are forever trying to trick not only unsuspecting users, but also company employees. Sure, it is usually far harder to dupe a business than a retiree, but the potential rate of return is far higher in the former case. Therefore, attempts to get SMes to...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 30, 2020 | Features
CEO fraud – also called business email compromise (BEC) – is a scam in which cybercriminals spoof company email accounts and impersonate executives to try and fool an employee in accounting or HR into executing unauthorised wire transfers, or sending out confidential...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 30, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
The retail cash bonanza that is Black Friday will have to be approached differently this year in view of Covid-19 prevention measures. But retailers that get it right can end 2020 on a reasonably high note and set themselves up for growth and success. Last year, was...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 30, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
If you check out any airlines’ publicity right now you’d almost feel as though they wrap you in a magic Covid-19 free bubble from the minute you board your flight to the moment you leave. But is this true? To a certain degree it is, as according to the CDC: ‘Most...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 30, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
For companies around the world, COVID-19 lockdown has forced rapid change. Where there was reluctance to adopt remote working and hybrid workspaces pre-pandemic, lockdown made this a non-negotiable. And as the weeks turned to months, many companies have realised that...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 30, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
An alternative economic strategy for South Africa could see GDP doubling in 10 years, 10-million people moving out of poverty, and unemployment cut by two-thirds to 12% by 2030. This strategy, proposed by Dr Nthabiseng Moleko and Professor Mark Swilling, seeks to...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 30, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
Two-thirds (67%) of South African small businesses struggle to source the right tech talent. But, despite struggling to hire, only 14% planned to upskill their existing team members to help close tech skills gaps. This is according to research Xero, which found that...
by Kathy Gibson | Oct 30, 2020 | Trends and Analysis
Gartner has identified five areas of digital commerce that will change due to shifting customer buying behaviors and accelerated digital investment in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. “Digital commerce has played an important role during the pandemic by enabling...
