Author: Duncan McLeod

Government recently published a draft national data and cloud policy that has potentially far-reaching implications. Bowmans partners Heather Irvine and Livia Dyer unpack what it all means in this podcast interview.

Rob Shuter, who resigned as CEO of MTN Group last year and who has since taken a senior role at the UK’s BT Group, was paid R73.8-million in his final eight months at the JSE-listed telecommunications firm.

Altron has declared a special dividend of 96c/share after it successfully spun off Bytes as a separate listing in London and Johannesburg and ended up with more cash than it expected.

Two years after TechCentral broke the news that the US SEC was investigating a dodgy licensing deal involving Microsoft and EOH at the department of defence, EOH has agreed to pay back the money.

Huge Group has taken down two videos from its website in which it implored Adapt IT shareholders to accept its offer to buy the software services group in an all-share deal.

Huawei said on Thursday that the Chinese technology giant will expand its cloud computing presence in South Africa, with a new “availability zone” to be built in Cape Town in the next year or two.

Cell C on Tuesday reported a full-year loss to 31 December 2020 of R5.5-billion. Dire as that sounds, it marks an improvement on the first half of the year, when it turned in a R7.6-billion loss.

Technology group Etion is selling its Lawtrust information security specialist subsidiary to Altron for R245-million as part of a programme to unlock shareholder value.

MetroFibre, the fibre telecommunications company that recently concluded a R2.5-billion debt funding round, is buying Link Africa’s fibre-to-the-home network in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.

Who is buying JSE-listed Adapt IT shares at or above the R6.50/share offer price tabled earlier this month by Canada’s Volaris Group? A disclosure by Adapt IT may have shed some light on this question.