Cover Story
Feb 11 2010 00:00
Global IT spend will top US$1,4 trillion this year, according to international research firm Gartner - with $781bn on services alone and the rest going to the hardware and software that increasingly puts computers in every last corner of our lives. In this environment a movement has started that will revolutionise and democratise the world's information economy and the business models that succeed within it.
Advertising & Marketing
Feb 11 2010 00:00
THOUGH SOMEWHAT BRUISED after battling through its worst year in a decade, the ad industry is beginning to bounce back. Partly it's a simple feeling the worst is over, no doubt fuelled by a number of economic indicators that have turned positive; and partly it's the expectation that the Soccer World Cup will inject some vigour into the moribund economy.
Insight
Feb 11 2010 00:00
"I'D SAY THE Soccer World Cup will add about half a percent to GDP this year," said OMIGSA chief economist Rian le Roux at a recent presentation. "The reality is I don't know. Nobody knows. Some brokerage came out with half a percent and that has become consensus. That's why I say half a percent."