Author: Duncan McLeod

So, Ahmad Farroukh, MTN South Africa’s CEO of the past 11 months, is leaving at the end of July. His tenure has been rocky, to say the least. He was brought in to turn around the troubled operator

Only 27% of cellphones sold in Africa and the Middle East in 2019 will be feature phones. The vast majority will be smartphones, according to new research from International Data Corp

Communications regulator Icasa and the National Consumer Commission have signed a memorandum of agreement clearly setting out which type of consumer complaints each will deal

Telkom has rejected claims that it is employing the same techniques used by malicious hackers in so-called “man in the middle” attacks to edit code on websites in order to serve the telecommunications operator’s own content to end users. Johannesburg

What do you do if your rival’s product is both market leading and market defining? When everything you do will be compared to your competitor’s offering? Well, if you’re Sony and you’re making a

Maggy Sibiya tells me she is relieved when I arrive at her office in Rivonia in Johannesburg without a camera. The ICT-Works chief operating officer says she is a “behind the scenes type of person” and

The Advertising Standards Authority has rejected consumer complaints against a Cell C ad that features a scruffy dog mounting a man’s leg, ruling that the company can continue flighting it

Facebook chose South Africa over Kenya and Nigeria for its first African office because the country has a strong advertising agency ecosystem and the companies it’s worked most closely with to date are

A South African technology firm, Cirrus Water Management, is helping pioneer a technology known as atmospheric water generation, or AWG – in effect, it’s “squeezing” water out of thin air. Commercial

JSE-listed conglomerate Bidvest has acquired a majority stake in Retroviral Digital Communications, a digital agency founded by entrepreneurs Mike Sharman and Murray Legg