Author: Duncan McLeod

Ah, that old trope, “market failure”. Economic development minister Ebrahim Patel trotted it out several times this week while unveiling the Competition Commission’s provisional findings into the data service market.

The Competition Commission has floated the idea of enforcing functional and/or accounting separation on South Africa’s large mobile operators –…

Chris Maroleng, the former MTN Group senior executive, has been fired as chief operating officer of the public broadcaster with immediate effect. He had been in the role for just over a year.

In this episode of TechCentral’s Cars & Gadgets podcast, Duncan McLeod chats to Nafisa Akabor about Huawei’s new P30 Pro smartphone. Watch or listen to the podcast here.

In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg take to YouTube for their first-ever live video discussion to talk about Samsung’s breaking Galaxy Fold smartphone.

BlackBerry Messenger, now known as BBM, the chat service that once dominated instant messaging in South Africa and several other markets around the world, will soon be no more.

EOH Holdings’ shares continued their strong rally into Tuesday as CEO Stephen van Coller told investors that a new base had been established for the technology services group’s future growth.

EOH shares soared nearly 25% on Monday, ahead of interim results on Tuesday, as investors began taking the view that the worst may be over for the battered JSE-listed technology services group.

Industrial action at Cell C has led to almost 400 employees being suspended. The move by the mobile operator comes after disruptive strike action this week that forced it to shut its Johannesburg head office.

Technology services group EOH Holdings will report a huge loss for the six months ended 31 January 2019 on the back of significant impairments as the new management team moves to clean up the business.