StarSat parent On Digital Media (ODM) has no intention of withdrawing a complaint it lodged against MultiChoice in 2013 at the Competition Commission, in which it accused its rival of engaging
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.
In the latest episode of South Africa’s weekly technology podcast, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about Google’s big restructuring and the creation of Alphabet. Also this week, they discuss the Forbes list of the
Dimension Data is getting a new CEO for its Middle East and Africa business. Grant Bodley, who has been with the IT services group for the past 15 years, will be taking on the role with current CEO
Media and technology group Naspers is said to be planning a video-on-demand rival to Netflix, and may be intending to announce the new service at a media conference in South Africa as early as next week. Naspers owns MultiChoice, which operates
Two months after missing the international deadline for switching from analogue to digital terrestrial television, South Africa has still not begun commercial digital broadcasts. However, the department of communications said in parliament on Tuesday that it is
Andile Ngcaba’s Convergence Partners is investing $20m (about R255m) in Venture Garden Nigeria (VGN), a diversified financial technology company with operations in Africa’s most populous market. The “strategic minority” stake is being bought
Google announced a significant restructuring overnight, with a new holding company, Alphabet, to hold the search engine and other assets in the technology group. Google CEO Larry Page will become Alphabet’s CEO, with Sundar Pichai to take over as CEO
Finally, there’s a move to try to do something about the dysfunction crippling the department of telecommunications & postal services. The mess at the department has become a barrier blocking the development of South Africa’s information and
Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele has suspended the department’s director-general, Rosey Sekese. The move comes after Sekese was given 72 hours to provide reasons why
Telkom has received the go-ahead from the Takeover Regulation Panel and the JSE for its R2,7bn all-cash acquisition of IT services group Business Connexion (BCX), meaning it has now received all of the necessary regulatory approvals. The news comes in the