Author: Duncan McLeod

One of Johannesburg’s largest suburbs will soon get fibre broadband. This is after Telkom announced plans to connect 12 000 homes in Bryanston. The sprawling suburb will be

International technology firm Digitata has acquired a controlling stake in long-time partner, South Africa’s Rorotika Technologies, which provides development and support services for Digitata’s

The SABC is footing the legal bills of its chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, and its former chair, Zandile Tshabalala, as they battle charges against them, it has been revealed in parliament

It’s a veritable feast for couch potatoes – or at least those with access to affordable and fast broadband. In the space of just a few months, almost half a dozen new video-on-demand players have been launched in South Africa, promising an alternative to satellite pay

UK-based backup solutions service provider Redstor has acquired South African company Attix5 for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition is effective 14 September. Attix5 is a specialist provider of data protection software and cloud solutions

Troubled pay-television broadcaster StarSat, formerly known as TopTV, is being forced to retrench staff, according a report in the Sunday Times. The newspaper says StarSat issued section 189 notices to employees last week and has blamed difficult

SAP’s CEO, Bill McDermott, has lost an eye after a freak accident. McDermott, who said he will continue to lead the German business software giant, revealed in a Facebook post on Thursday that the accident happened in July, while he was visiting his father on his 76th birthday.

Mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) me&you mobile has performed well in Tariffic’s latest quarterly “perfect package tracker”, offering the best packages in three of five user categories modelled by the company. Tariffic’s latest quarterly tracker

Revenues from Internet access and the wider entertainment and media sector in South Africa will reach R176bn by 2019, from R112,7bn in 2014, according to a new report by PwC. That’s a growth of

WeThinkCode, the new, not-for-profit and entrepreneur-led initiative to develop programming skills in South Africa, has revealed its first corporate backers. They are financial services group First National Bank, Durban-based development house Derivco and Johannesburg-based