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Deal or No Deal – What to Watch Out for this Black Friday and Cyber Monday
In a year like no other, it is likely that 2020’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals will be more frenzied than ever. With many industries, particularly retail, crippled by pandemic lockdowns and distancing restrictions, the upcoming weekend presents an opportunity to recoup some losses. The pandemic has accelerated the already growing increase in online shopping, with e-commerce sales expected to reach $4.2 trillion by the end of 2020 (Statista). Although many physical stores will be closed or keeping the usual crowds of shoppers to a minimum – the online space will be just as jam-packed as ever with offers and sales. This makes it the perfect breeding ground for cyber-attacks and scams, from phishing emails to suspicious social media ads. For many, mobile devices have become the primary...
Mimecast Strengthens Commitment to the Channel with Appointment of New Global Leader
Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ: MIME), a leading email security and cyber resilience company, announced Jonathan Corini has been appointed the new Senior Vice President of Global Channel Sales. In this role, Jonathan will be responsible for the strategy and execution of Mimecast’s global channel program. Mimecast is dedicated to ensuring its partner community is supported, engaged and armed for success and the appointment of Jonathan will help unify and strengthen its commitment to the channel. “As a leading cybersecurity and resilience provider to organizations using Microsoft 365, there’s a huge opportunity to grow in the enterprise while also serving small and medium businesses, and we can’t do that without the channel,” said Dino DiMarino, chief revenue officer at...
Working from home with Yealink
A year ago, nobody would have imagined that working from home and the home office would be such a topical subject, but the last few months have caused us to rethink and re-evaluate how our businesses are run and what is essential. What has become very clear, is that businesses need to continue being operational and efficient with a substantial percentage of the workforce offsite. Even with the relaxing of lockdown restrictions, many employees continue to work from home. Thus, a clear and concise work from home strategy is vital. Effective communication is key to this work from home strategy. Cloud hosted PABX solutions (such as 3CX) are on the rise, while Microsoft Teams is ideally suited to enabling collaboration amongst colleagues and business partners. Getting the full value of these so...
Altron People Solutions Partners with LivePerson to Deliver AI-powered Messaging for Better Customer Experiences
Altron People Solutions, a subsidiary of JSE-listed technology company Altron, was recently named as a Preferred Partner of LivePerson, a global leader in Conversational AI. The partnership will deliver AI-driven conversational experience solutions to the South African market and help companies pivot their businesses away from traditional voice-based channels to digital messaging channels. “The Altron People Solutions-LivePerson partnership is setting the bar when it comes to conversational experiences. South African brands can now leverage AI-powered bots to answer consumer messages alongside human customer service employees; we refer to this the Human-AI Tango,” says Darryl Marcus, head of business development and CX enabling technologies. “The devastating impact of the COVID-19 p...
Huawei and Vusi Thembekwayo Join Forces to Encourage Digitising Businesses
Huawei has joined forces with South African business extraordinaire Vusi Thembekwayo to provide the technology company’s developer community with entrepreneurial advice on the importance of digitalising businesses and creating apps in the context of the thriving digital economy. As part of Huawei’s recently announced series of app developer workshops, Thembekwayo will engage developers and entrepreneurs in one of the upcoming monthly workshops. Thembekwayo is the CEO of MyGrowthFund, an enterprise development agency. He is well known for his entrepreneurial flair and business passion, as showcased on the popular TV show Dragon’s Den South Africa, which focused on pitching innovative business ideas for venture capital funding. The illustrious business mogul has headed multi-million-rand c...
Four reasons why SA app developers should integrate their apps with Huawei Mobile Services (HMS)
Since the launch of HUAWEI AppGallery, Huawei’s app store, in 2019 Huawei has been focused on assisting app developers. Huawei’s approach has always been to ensure that consumers get the best of both local and global apps on their devices, which means that it places great importance on making sure that SA developers get all they need from Huawei to develop and integrate their apps with Huawei Mobile Services (HMS). Here are four reasons why SA app developers should integrate their apps with HMS: Developers have access to global markets By integrating apps to HMS, developers have more exposure to Huawei’s device base, increasing the number of consumers who have access to their apps via HUAWEI AppGallery. Over 490 million people in 170 countries are monthly active users of Huawei mobil...
4 Benefits of Online Education and eLearning
For millions of students and instructors across the world, online classes have become a necessity because of the COVID-19 pandemic. And, in general, many have found the transition to a virtual learning environment to be – at the very least – challenging. Indeed, if you’re used to spending a lot of time in a physical classroom, operating primarily online can be a difficult change to your routine. However, the good news is that there are a number of key advantages associated with online education and eLearning. To that end, today we’ll take a look at four reasons why students and teachers alike can benefit from virtual education: 1. Flexibility /* custom css */ .tdi_3_575.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_3_575.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } Perhaps the most obvious positive asp...
Mobile in Africa is Offering Amazing Discounts this Singles’ Day
Everyone’s favourite retail holiday has always been Black Friday, but have you heard of Singles’ Day? The holiday was introduced in the early ‘90s by Chinese university students as a commemoration of their single status. The essence of the festival was for singles to enjoy the freedom and buying power that their married counterparts often could not. Singles’ Day is celebrated on 11 November, – or 11:11 – to denote solo living. The date has now become a highlight of the retail calendar across the globe, where single people treat themselves to gifts and presents to celebrate their independence. /* custom css */ .tdi_3_e2f.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_3_e2f.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } To support this annual event, retailers slash their prices so that consumers can fund th...
How Guest Blogging Services Can Improve Your Business
Just having a decent web design is not sufficient to attract customers. The Internet is saturated with business websites in every sector. So, you need to find ways to gain an edge. Guest blogging has the potential to promote your brand. You will need to choose professional guest blogging services. How is guest blogging beneficial? Guest blogging means you will write blog posts for others. You are the guest and the site you post is the host. Basically, you are writing blog posts for your business site but posting it on another website. It is beneficial for the guest and the host. When you publish your post on Quality Guest Post services, you will get wide exposure and enhance your backlinking profile. How? Every time you publish your post as a guest, you include links pointing towards ...
The Major Benefits that Bar Codes have in Business
Why bar codes? What is the big fuss about? Why should I utilize them in my business? These are all honest questions that every business owner has to ask themselves. In reality, there are countless reasons to use EAN bar codes. A life without them would look a lot different to the one we take for granted today. There are endless ways that they make our lives easier. Firstly, using EAN bar codes in your business will reduce the number of mistakes that are made on a daily basis. The honest truth is that every one of us is human and mistakes are normal. However, mistakes often mean a loss of profits or at the very least an enormous waste of time. And as they say, time is money. Using them in your business makes every day processes a lot smoother and more efficient, saving you both time and mon...
4 Tips to Address Declining Sales Numbers at a Small Business
Many growing companies rely on steady sales numbers to maintain regular operations. Sure, fluctuations in sales figures are to be expected, somewhat. And seasonal businesses will naturally experience busy and slow periods based solely on the calendar. However, consistent, declining sales numbers should be a red flag to any small business owner. Without a constant stream of income from sales, many small businesses will be unable to grow, meet annual objectives, or even stay competitive in their industry. With that in mind, today we’ll share four tips that professionals can use to reverse negative sales trends. Check them out here: 1. Update Online Capabilities One of the best ways to boost flagging sales numbers is to improve your eCommerce functionality. More and more consumers make ...
App Developers Stand a Chance to Win up to R1 000 000 with #HDC2020
Huawei is committed to bringing the latest technology to app developers in order to support them in delivering the best app experience possible. With HUAWEI AppGallery, Huawei has developed more than 50 kits and hundreds of capabilities for developers and is proud to be working with 1.3 million developers and partners globally. As a brand committed to assisting app developers, Huawei is now running two new competitions, which will be running until 30 November. Upload your app onto HUAWEI AppGallery and win Huawei Cloud vouchers To enter this competition, all you need to do is register as a Huawei developer on HUAWEI AppGallery, Huawei’s app store. Once you have signed up, you will receive a Huawei Cloud voucher. This voucher is worth $200 for individual developers, or $600 for enterp...
