Author: Duncan McLeod

Customers of leading fibre-to-the-home broadband provider Cool Ideas have been suffering from intermittent and sometimes non-existent Internet access since Tuesday night.

Net1 UEPS Technologies has become the second JSE-listed company, after Blue Label Telecoms, to delay publication of financial results because of the ongoing financial woes at Cell C.

The regulator’s complaints and compliance committee has fined MTN South Africa R5-million – R2-million of which is suspended for three years – for contravening regulations when it hiked the tariffs on one of its data plans.

Dimension Data is at an advanced stage of talks to sell The Campus, long the site of its head office in Johannesburg, TechCentral has learnt.

Metrofile Holdings, the JSE-listed records and storage management specialist, has received an approach from an unnamed entity that wants to acquire it.

JSE-listed technology group Altron said on Friday that it has suspended three executives at its Altron Nexus subsidiary following an investigation that revealed “potential internal irregularities”.

MTN South Africa CEO Godfrey Motsa has penned a powerful e-mail to the company’s employees, decrying the xenophobic attacks on foreigners over the past week as well as violence against women.

Zoho Corporation, a Chennai, India-based developer of a wide spectrum of software-as-a-service business applications, is eyeing significant expansion in South Africa.

Listed technology and logistics holding company Labat is getting into the cannabis business.

Cell C has stopped broadcasting the linear channels on its Black video-streaming service as the struggling mobile operator continues a major review of costs in its business.