Author: Duncan McLeod

Pinnacle Holdings’ share price plunged by 17,4% on Monday after it warned shareholders that it has been drawn into a case involving corruption charges against a top South African National Defence Force official. “Pinnacle shareholders

The failure by Icasa to explain what a reserved “Lot A” of radio frequency spectrum will be used for should result in the communications regulator being prevented from proceeding with its planned spectrum auction, Cell C has argued

Former top bankers Michael Jordaan and Paul Harris could steal a march on South Africa’s established mobile telecommunications operators when they launch their new national wireless broadband network early next year thanks

Excessive regulation, a business model that tried to do too much too soon and trust worries among consumers. These are the reasons Vodacom’s M-Pesa and MTN’s Mobile Money failed in South Africa, according to the CEO

South Africa’s newest mobile broadband network, to be built by iBurst and Broadlink parent company Wireless Business Solutions (WBS), will be launched in early 2017, one of its backers, former First National Bank CEO

It’s been less than a decade since Apple shook the mobile telecommunications industry to its foundations with the original iPhone. The handset helped turn Apple into the world’s most valuable company (US$620bn this week) and inflicted huge

Twenty-two billion dollars. That’s the value that was wiped off the market capitalisation of Samsung Electronics in two days last week as investors took stock of implications of a global recall of its latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy

One of South Africa’s largest church groups, Shepherd Bushiri Ministries International, which claims to have about 2m followers, is launching a mobile virtual network operator to offer congregants voice and data

It’s podcast time! Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg gather around the mic to discuss the week’s biggest local and international tech news. This week, they chat about South Africa’s never-ending digital

Lawrence Baker, co-founder and director of Saleboat, a new South African IT start-up that develops cloud-based subscription sales management software, said the company’s founders bear an uncanny