Author: Duncan McLeod

Duncan McLeod

Duncan McLeod is founder and managing editor of TechCentral. With more than 30 years of experience in technology journalism, he has worked for and contributed to a range of publications, including the Financial Mail, the Sunday Times and the Financial Times.

Altron is actively pursuing a sale of its set-top box manufacturing business, Altech UEC, TechCentral has established reliably from two well-placed sources. The group, which is disposing of noncore assets in a restructuring process that will see it focus on its

Dimension Data division Internet Solutions has relaunched its small and medium enterprise business in an effort to claim a bigger chunk of the growing segment, in the process ditching

Giraffe, the South African start-up using technology to help tackle unemployment in South Africa through an automated recruitment service, has announced it has raised a seed round of funding led by Silicon Valley venture firm Omidyar Network. The parties have not

Cape Town-based Wi-Fi start-up Asimmetric has raised a “seven-figure US dollar amount” in new funding from venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. Founded by experts in the telecommunications industry, Asimmetric

Telkom has cut a further 1 184 jobs through voluntary retrenchments, representing more than 8% of the company’s workforce, prompting trade union Solidarity to warn of a “massive skills shortage” at

Concerns are growing in the telecommunications industry that government plans to abandon the nearly universal model of auctioning off precious radio frequency spectrum to private-sector operators, instead allocating it to a single wholesale provider in which