Author: Duncan McLeod

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, has acquired South African-founded WordPress theme development and e-commerce enablement businesses WooThemes and WooCommerce. The deal is all about WooCommerce – a popular plug-on for

Craig Venter, the 52-year-old son of Altron founder Bill Venter, has quit the group after 27 years of service. The move was not entirely unexpected after Altron last week announced it would

There was palpable anger on the streets outside MTN’s headquarters in Fairland, Johannesburg on Wednesday as hundreds of workers – mainly from the group’s call centre operations – went on strike

Growth in operating profit from continuing operations, coupled with additional proceeds from the sale of Nashua Mobile subscribers and interest earned on the full proceeds, have underpinned Reunert’s results in the six months ended March 2015

A second attempt by Vodacom to launch the M-Pesa mobile payments platform in South Africa has flopped. On Monday, the mobile operator conceded that since it relaunched M-Pesa in the

Vodacom raised prices on 1 May in order to be in a position to reduce them in future, its CEO, Shameel Joosub, said on Monday. Speaking to journalists, analysts and investors at the

Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub said the telecommunications operator’s proposed R7bn acquisition of Neotel should have no conditions attached to it as it is “stepping up to the plate” to be South

First National Bank was offline on Monday morning, frustrating consumers who took to social media networks, including Twitter, to vent their frustration. An FNB spokesman has confirmed the downtime and has said the bank will issue a holding

Vodacom has reported a 4% decline in full-year headline earnings per share as the mobile group faced big cuts in wholesale inter-network call rates, exchange range volatility and increased retail price competition in its key markets. Net profit declined

It’s been 50 years since Bill Venter, then a 33-year-old telecommunications engineer, founded Allied Electric, the company that would go on to become the Altron group. Alongside publication of its results for the year ended February 2015, Altron