Remember the old joke about the dim tailor who makes a loss on each piece of clothing but hopes to make it up in volume? That describes the market for flat-panel screens for televisions. None of the companies that produce liquid crystal display (LCD) panels — Samsung and LG Display from South Korea
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Most people running a business that could end up on the wrong end of a lawsuit would keep a low profile. Not Kim Dotcom. The boss of Megaupload, a popular website that let users store and share music, films and other content, Dotcom went out of
Apple has announced that John Browett, the now former CEO of UK-based Dixons Retail, will join the company as senior vice president of its retail division. “Our retail stores are all about customer service, and John shares that commitment like no one else we’ve met
TopTV is set for a shake-up at the top, as the CEO of parent company On Digital Media, Vino Govender, looks set to leave the broadcaster. A source that spoke on condition of anonymity said that Govender would be leaving On Digital Media this week
Former Absa chief marketing and communications officer Happy Ntshingila has been appointed as SuperSport’s new CEO, the sports channel said on Tuesday. Ntshingila would report to the MultiChoice SA group CEO Imtiaz Patel, SuperSport spokesman Clinton van der Berg said in a statement
The ZA Tech Show podcast team talks about Nokia’s Lumia 800 launch, the furore surrounding personal financial management website 22seven, Facebook’s planned listing, developments at Google, the Megupload bust, the end of piracy and much more besides
Qatar has made an offer to buy Saudi Oger’s 55% stake in Oger Telecom, Cell C’s parent company, according to a report on wire service Reuters, which quotes unnamed sources reportedly familiar with the matter. The deal, if it happens, will give Qatar control of Turkey’s Turk Telecom and Cell C. Saudi Oger is controlled by the family
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has made the headlines for all the wrong reasons in the past year. Yet, almost half (44%) of SA smartphone users have a BlackBerry, new research from Strategy Worx Consulting has found. BlackBerrys make up 3,3m of the 7,5m smartphones in use in SA
Johannesburg-based open-source software start-up Snapt < http://www.snapt-ui.com/> launched only in August 2011 but already it’s drawing interest from top drawer customers, mainly international clients, including the US National Aeronautics & Space Administration (Nasa). The company uses open-source software
Deloitte expects demand for consumer devices to continue to grow in 2012, even in countries that continue to feel the effects of the global economic downturn. Developed markets, however, are expected to experience lower growth in technology sales than emerging markets. Deloitte