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Brett Haggard is joined by Steven Ambrose and Adam Oxford for an in-depth discussion that focuses on three things: Apple’s launch of the iPhone 5s and 5c, Intel’s big announcements from the Intel Developer Forum and Samsung’s new Galaxy Gear smart watch

Liquid Telecom has opened what it’s calling the largest data centre in East Africa, in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi. The data centre currently occupies four floors, with 500sqm of usable whitespace and 160 racks per floor. The facility has been built by a new Liquid Telecom

Microsoft South Africa is looking for more small, black-owned software development companies to join its equity equivalence-based enterprise development programme. The company first launched the initiative in 2011 and has since signed deals with five local companies

Electronic tolling in Gauteng will still be implemented this year, but the commencement date has yet to be determined, according to transport minister Dipuo Peters. In written reply to a parliamentary question, she said the transport department was awaiting the promulgation of the Transport Laws

Times Media Group (formerly Avusa) has acquired a 32,3% stake in Ghana’s Multimedia Group for R144m. Multimedia Group is a radio and television business and is the largest independent media company in Ghana, the JSE-listed Times Media, which owns the Sunday Times and Business Day newspapers

The labour court has instructed the SABC to allow former editor Montlenyane Diphoko to return to work, his attorney said on Monday. “The court has upheld the findings of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) last year, and instructed the SABC to allow my client

Transaction values processed through Nedbank’s App Suite have exceeded R23bn in the little over 12 months since the transactional banking application was released. The number was disclosed by Nedbank chief information officer Fred Swanepoel in a statement on Monday in which the bank announced

Taxpayers have had to fork out more than R1m for former communications minister Dina Pule’s legal fees, her successor Yunus Carrim revealed on Friday. “The total legal costs incurred thus far in respect of these matters amount to R1 187 148,82,” Carrim said in written reply to a parliamentary

StarTimes, the Chinese company that recently came to the rescue of On Digital Media’s TopTV pay-television business, has signed a 10-year contract with European satellite operator SES to expand its media footprint in Africa. The contact involves use of the SES-5

The SABC plans to exercise fiscal prudence when its government-guaranteed loan is paid off at the end of September, CEO Lulama Mokhobo said on Thursday. “The SABC has made R330m in profits after taxes, and we will be paying off the government guaranteed loan at the end of September,” she