Author: Duncan McLeod

Banking group Absa is transferring 32 members of its enterprise resource planning software team to Dimension Data.

Vodacom pumped an additional R500-million into its network in the first quarter of its 2021 financial year to help cater for surging demand for voice and data services during the Covid-19 lockdown.

The high court in Pretoria has overturned a controversial 2019 decision by former trade & industry minister Rob Davies that gave Telkom privileged black economic empowerment status by the government.

Four years after pulling the plug on its M-Pesa platform in South Africa, Vodacom is having another go at fintech and mobile payments in its biggest market, this time in partnership with Chinese’s Ant Financial.

Microsoft has officially launched its first Surface devices in South Africa, though the range is extremely limited for now, with only the Surface Pro 7 and Surface Laptop 3 available.

Communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has published a policy direction to industry regulator Icasa, asking it to fast-track the licensing of digital radio broadcasting services in South Africa.

As of Monday morning’s open on Wall Street, Apple – the listed US company that’s attracted the largest valuation of them all – had a market capitalisation of $1.7-trillion.

Eskom will implement load shedding for the first time in nearly four months, the state-owned utility said on Friday, as plant breakdowns reduced its ability to meet demand.

Communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has thrown a spanner in the works over the appointment of six new councillors to Icasa at a critical juncture for the regulator as it gears up to license new broadband spectrum.

MultiChoice Group’s Showmax has launched Showmax Pro, which offers both video-on-demand entertainment programming and live-streamed sports from SuperSport.