In June this year, James McCarthy, a British expatriate living in China, was turned away at Seattle airport for not having sufficient funds to enter the US. This seemed odd considering he had arrived in the country to start a currency business. According to The Economist
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Telkom’s share price fell to new multi-year lows on Thursday of below R30/share after it warned the market of poor financial performance in the six-month period ended 30 September 2011 and after it said it would take a further R1bn profit hit related to its
Business is wasting time and money by trying to reach people on social networks sites without a targeted strategy, a global research survey has found. “Three out of five SA Internet users don’t want to be bothered by brands on social networks,” TNS said in a statement
The slow pace at which African countries, including SA, are moving to digital terrestrial television could have serious economic implications in the next few years. It could cost the continent significant economic growth. That’s the view of Peter Lyons, director
Something momentous happened on Wednesday — something most people will never even hear about. Adobe, a software firm, announced that it is ceasing development on the mobile version of its Flash platform. That probably doesn’t sound very momentous
Neotel, licensed more than five years ago as the first infrastructure competitor in fixed-line telecommunications to Telkom, has reached positive earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) or the first time. It reached the milestone
JSE-listed IT services company Business Connexion (BCX) has turned in a poor set of financial results in its 2011 financial year to end-August. CEO Benjamin Mophatlane says the company has had a “tough year” and the results “haven’t met expectations”. Its technology and
These Norwegians are certainly tenacious. Despite Norway’s Opera Software continuing to struggle to gain meaningful market share against rivals such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Windows Internet Explorer on desktop computers, the company
The department of communications is moving to wrest control over management of SA’s scarce radio frequency spectrum from industry regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), a reading of the Electronic Communications
The ministry of communications will establish an intergovernmental broadband implementation committee when the proposed Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, which is being developed to replace the 2005 Electronic Communications Act