Africa is now the world’s second largest mobile market by connections after Asia and the fastest-growing mobile market in the world, according to the GSMA, and industry association.
According to the new GSMA Africa Mobile Observatory 2011 report, mobile penetration rates in Africa have reached 649m connections, having first exceeded 50% mobile penetration in 2010.

Mary Meeker is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. She joined the firm in 2011 and focuses on investments in the firm’s digital practice, targeting high-growth Internet companies that have achieved strong adoption and scale. Mary recently presented at the Web 2.0 Summit, which since 2004 has brought the intelligence, innovation, and leadership [...]

SMS has shown its ability to act as a catalyst for social change time and time again.

‘While many vendors offer some mobile recruiting capability, txthire has been designed to meet the needs of candidates who may not have a PC or a smartphone. Graylink has taken this constraint and innovated with it.’ Gartner Not all prospective employees have access to the internet, making it difficult to provide an inclusive process for [...]

While many vendors offer some mobile recruiting capability, txthire has been designed to meet the needs of candidates who may not have a PC or smartphone. graylink has taken this constraint and innovated with it.

In more than a quarter of SA homes, at least one person has access to the Internet. That’s a finding of Statistics SA’s latest annual general household survey.

At Google Inc.’s Think Mobile event in New York, industry guru Mary Meeker said that the pace and force of mobile growth is unlike anything she has ever seen. She and others who presented at the event addressed what this change means for businesses.

Organisations need to increasingly embrace mobile as a critical tool in the recruitment marketing mix, here is why.

The greatest spin-offs have been the reduced paper usage and reduced administration, ultimately leading to huge time and cost savings for us. In some of the provinces we receive up to 200 CV’s per day for branch positions, which required several man-hours per day just to collate and distribute these.

“Our commitment to serving the international community is key to our success, “said Sean Luitjens, eQuest’s VP of Business Development. “Our service center is ready to provide graylink customers the best delivery service available.