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Creative Spark, the Cape Town-based digital agency founded by Matthew Buckland, has been acquired by M&C Saatchi for an undisclosed sum.
The acquisition includes Creative Spark’s digital publishing arm, whose titles include Memeburn, Ventureburn and Gearburn
A computer that costs only US$5, or less than R75? That’s what the team behind the popular Raspberry Pi has just unveiled. The Raspberry Pi Zero, which goes on sale immediately (in limited quantities for now), has a 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, microSD card slot, micro USB
Apple’s tablet, PC hybrid, the 12,9-inch iPad Pro, goes on sale in South Africa on Friday. But those wanting one had better be prepared to stump up a lot of cash thanks to the sorry state of the rand. The iPad Pro, which has received mixed reviews, will start at
Feature phones dead? Microsoft is betting against it. The company has unveiled two new feature phones, the Nokia 230 and the Nokia 230 Dual Sim, which offer battery life of up to 27 days in standby mode. The two phones, which are expected to retail for
Naspers’s fledgling video-on-demand platform, ShowMax, will be expanded to three new continents in the coming year, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The news wire cited an unnamed source as saying that the company is targeting more than
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will have the final say on what happens with the US$5,2bn (R73bn) fine imposed on South African-headquartered telecommunications group MTN, multiple
Cell C will expand its 4G/LTE network to the Western Cape, the mobile operator said on Wednesday. Commercial switch-on will happen on 1 December. The launch of the LTE network is timed to meet demand from holidaymakers, who are expected to
Alcatel-Lucent has announced it is about to begin construction of the Africa Coast to Europe submarine cable’s second phase, which will connect South Africa to São Tomé and Príncipe and provide an alternative route to Europe to the West Africa Cable System
Something significant transpired on Friday last week that prompted South Africa’s largest telecommunications operator, Vodacom, to review the structure of its acquisition of Neotel, a
Neotel chief corporate services officer Tracy Cohen has resigned. News of her resignation comes on the same day that Vodacom announced that it was in talks with Neotel and its shareholders – led by India’s Tata Communications – about a “revised transaction
