For most brands and marketers, keeping ahead of an ever-evolving digital privacy landscape is a major challenge. Not only are governments and regulators constantly amending data protection laws, but digital platform companies also often change their rules...
Mario de Lima 13 Apr 2021
First National Bank (FNB) has been named as South Africa's most valuable brand for the first time, in the BrandZ Top 30 Most Valuable South African Brands ranking, released today by WPP and Kantar...
Issued by Kantar 1 Sep 2020
The new Showmax Pro service, which bundles the existing Showmax entertainment service with music channels, news and live sport streaming from SuperSport, is going live from today in South Africa with prices starting at R225 per month...
Issued by Showmax 20 Aug 2020
The world's most valuable brands have seen their total brand value increase by 5.9% despite the economic, social and personal impacts of Covid-19, according to the 2020 BrandZTM Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands ranking released today by WPP and Kantar...
Issued by Kantar 30 Jun 2020
The combined value of the brands in the BrandZ Top 30 Most Valuable South African Brands ranking, released today by WPP and Kantar and now in its second year, is $37.14bn...
Issued by Kantar 5 Sep 2019
With little sign of a slowdown in growth, Amazon has become the world's most valuable brand, according to the 2019 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands ranking released today...
Issued by Kantar 11 Jun 2019
The report, released today by WPP and Kantar Millward Brown, reveals that the Top 30 South African brands show more potential for global growth than their counterparts in the Chinese and European rankings, but have less exposure to overseas markets...
Issued by Kantar 31 Oct 2018
Alliance signs a global multiyear agreement to partner with Google to equip Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi vehicles with intelligent infotainment systems...
The total brand value of the BrandZ Top 100 grew by a record 21%, adding almost $750bn to the ranking, now valued at $4.4tn...
Issued by Kantar 29 May 2018
Now available to over one billion consumers across 24 territories throughout Asia, the Middle East and Africa, iflix celebrates 10 million minutes streamed in 2017 with a new campaign...
Facebook has unveiled a version of its Messenger application for children, aimed at enabling kids under 12 to connect with others under parental supervision...
Technology giants Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook take the top five places in the 2017 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands ranking released today by WPP and Kantar Millward Brown...
Issued by Kantar 6 Jun 2017
Instagram on Tuesday put its own spin on a key Snapchat feature by letting users post "Stories" that eventually vanish from the Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing application...
'Transparent innovation' pushes Google back to the top of the BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands, increasing its worth to $229bn. The ability to disrupt sets apart the fastest growing brands...
Issued by Kantar 8 Jun 2016
The smartphone revolutionised how people live and work, but the technology world is now struggling to see what comes next. As smartphone sales have peaked in most major markets...
Apple has overtaken Google to reclaim the title of 'world's most valuable brand' in the 2015 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands, released by WPP and Millward Brown...
Issued by Kantar 27 May 2015
WASHINGTON, US: As Google faces an antitrust probe from European regulators, some analysts are questioning whether the California tech giant's dominance has already peaked...
Meeting customer expectations and demands in the challenging hospitality sector with BYOD...
SINGAPORE: A Singapore-based company has just launched a mobile application that enables Muslim foodies and travellers to share halal restaurant discoveries around the world...
The increasing popularity of Apple devices in recent years has led to cyber criminals taking more and more interest in the OS X and iOS operating systems...
There are just over 37 million adults in South Africa today and, if you want to reach them, there's no better way than to use mobile technology...
Lynette Hundermark 26 Nov 2014
Tuluntulu, one of South Africa's top 10 startup companies this year, has recently launched ten channels that are available 24/7 on mobile...
Airports Company South Africa recently unveiled its pioneering free Airports App that will assist passengers to not only easily navigate any of its nine airports but also make all their travel arrangements from the comfort of their smart devices.
Google has overtaken Apple to become the world's most valuable global brand in the 2014 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brand ranking, worth $159bn, an increase of 40% year-on-year.
Issued by Kantar 21 May 2014
Internet security company Trend Micro has revealed a set of solutions to combat the unprecedented array of cyber-attacks that are continually targeting individuals and enterprises via mobile platforms. The new solutions will help mitigate threats to mobile networks and devices, including product enhancements to support enterprises and consumers alike.
Consumers are warned about a peak in both the volume of Apple iOS phishing sites, as well as a notable increase in online banking malware. This is according to Trend Micro's latest quarterly Security Roundup Report.
Although security threats targeting PCs still out number threats targeting mobile devices, smart phones and tablets have come under increasing attack in the past two years. Richard Broeke from specialist IT security provider, Securicom, says that as malicious code for mobile devices begins to generate revenue for malware authors, we can expect the number of threats to grow.
Auto Trader ran a successful 'Remember When' marketing and brand campaign during June 2013 on various radio stations. The campaign is to celebrate the re-launch of Auto Trader's mobile site, m.autotrader.co.za.
As it stands, we have moved through a few core paradigms in terms of how we interact with computers and software. From the earliest days of physical levers and punchcards, through text (DOS etc.), onto the GUI and windows/Mac OS type interfaces, and recently now touch, gesture and voice.
Joseph C Lawrence 18 Apr 2013
Specialised Microsoft and mobile application development company 3fifteen has appointed Tarkan Diraz as the new GM of its mobile division. Diraz will be responsible for growing the company's business in this strategically important area.
![[Mobile World Congress 2013] Day two](https://biz-file.com/c/1302/125657-120x120.jpg?1)
Day two of the Mobile World Congress included a more detailed look at the industry drivers, emerging markets, mobile marketing by big brands and the new generation of operating systems. (video)
Angus Robinson 27 Feb 2013
South Africa is leading the way in mobile health or mHealth - the practice of medicine and public health with the use of mobile devices - and has a track record that shows the development of several successful mHealth initiatives.
Cadine Pillay 18 Feb 2013
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: Android jobs ricochet back as Apple iOS jobs stagnate; The interactive web continues to fly; eBay jobs return as the marketplace announces changes and a makeover; confidence returns to Facebook jobs as marketers return in the wake of the IPO flop; the transition to the paperless office booms; Internet Marketing rebounds in the wake of Google panic.
Digital Solutions Group (DSG) has partnered with CardMobili to bring Digital Cards - a mobile app-based loyalty programme offering to Africa. This digital solution enables better service to loyal customers by issuing loyalty cards, coupons, promotional material, and payment options straight to their phones, resulting in an improved brand experience for the customer.
With the rapid move towards enterprise mobility, workers are able to access corporate information and networks as well as carry out their tasks nearly anywhere. But along with the welcome benefits of productivity, efficiency and flexibility, the shift to a mobile world brings with it a range of new security threats that companies need to manage closely.
William James 15 Oct 2012
Consumerisation of IT - the trend of end-users bringing their own technologies to work - has changed the world in which CIOs and IT managers operate. Today, they're not as able to dictate platforms and standards to their mobile users as they were five years ago.
Alexandra Zagury 24 Aug 2012
The Samsung wireless audio with dock (WAD), dual-docking system, is now in South Africa available. This is a new line of wireless audio docking systems that features breakthrough innovation for rich sound quality comparable to premium audio systems. These docking stations also allow mobile phone users to enjoy high-quality audio experiences that support both Samsung GALAXY and Apple iOS devices.
The era of mobile computing has arrived, bringing with it a number of information security risks that companies must carefully manage as end-users do more of their work from outside the corporate firewall. That is according to Robyn Milham, head of sales for Southern Africa at Research In Motion (RIM), the company behind the BlackBerry solution.
Along with the many business benefits that companies can achieve by giving workers the tools to do their jobs while they are out of the office, organisations also face a number of new information security risks, as end-users do more of their work from outside the corporate firewall.
RESTON, US: comScore, Inc has released the 2012 Mobile Future in Focus report. This annual report examines the mobile and connected device landscape, covering several mobile markets measured by comScore.
LONDON, UK: The comScore, Inc overview of the mobile and connected device landscape across five leading European markets (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) shows cross-platform digital media consumption on the rise in the region, buoyed by the growth in adoption of smartphones, tablets and other non-computer web-enabled devices, collectively termed "connected devices".
LONDON, UK: The GSMA and comScore, Inc, in partnership with the UK mobile operators, have released the first monthly data showing how UK mobile consumers engage through mobile applications.
RESTON, US: comScore, Inc has released the results of a US study of Apple iPad owners, based on data from the comScore MobiLens service. The report includes comScore's first publicly available data showing demographics and other characteristics of users of connected media devices, such as the iPad and iPod Touch.
The global smartphone market will double in size by 2016 to hit shipments of 653 million, predicts Ovum in a new forecast*. Android will drive the growth and will emerge as the dominant platform, dramatically outperforming Apple with a massive 20.5% lead on market share, finds the independent telecoms analyst.
![[2011 trends] Year of the tablet](https://biz-file.com/c/1101/65426-120x120.jpg)
If 2010 was the year of the apps (as I wrote this time last year), then 2011 will be the year of the tablet. Last year was supposed to be the year of the tablet (after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer showed off an HP Slate in January) but it was really the year of the iPad.
Toby Shapshak 30 Jan 2011
The Powertime service, which enables customers of Eskom and all major municipalities in South Africa to buy prepaid electricity tokens from their phones or computers, has added a new 2.0.1 iOS application and a new version of its award-winning website service. The application is available for all iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch users from Apple iTunes App Store.