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When Google offers to buy your two-year-old website for as much as US$6bn, you’d have to be crazy to refuse, right? But that’s what Groupon did. A surge of rumours last week had Google opening its offer

The SA Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) has introduced a “copper theft barometer” to try reduce the R5bn this crime costs the economy each year, a spokeswoman said on Thursday

Telecommunications operators say the Universal Service Fund should be used exclusively for telecommunications services in underserviced areas and should not be tapped by broadcasters for digital set-top box

Cabinet on Wednesday discussed the issue of which standard SA will adopt for digital terrestrial television broadcasting. Curiously, however, no reference was made to the issue in Thursday’s cabinet statement

Neotel and Vodacom have called on their regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), to scrap the universal service obligations they agreed to when they were licensed. Instead, they want

A new start-up is hoping to change the way South Africans buy wine, benefiting both consumers and farmers in the process. The site, SaleWine.co.za, founded by local wine expert AJ Ray, is modelled

Several senior staff have resigned from Nashua Mobile following the recent exit of MD Chris Scoble and a retrenchment programme at the independent cellular service provider. Nashua Mobile, which is

Worldwide sales of network-connected e-readers are forecast to reach 6,6m units in 2010, up 79,8% from 2009 sales of 3,6m units, says research firm Gartner. That growth will continue into next

Last week’s WikiLeaks disclosure of US diplomatic cables is arguably the biggest international news story of 2010. But it could end up being a defining theme of 21st-century politics: the communications