Author: Staff Reporter

Seacom has launched a point of presence in Bloemfontein for business customers.

The relatively new South African stock exchange ZAR X has launched what it’s calling the country’s first distributed settlement system for unit trusts.

Frogfoot Networks has acquired the network assets and customer base of Blitz Fibre and entered into a deal with the company to accelerate the roll-out of fibre in multi-dwelling units across South Africa.

The executives behind Wantitall and Parcelninja have launched a “global sourcing” e-commerce website promising half a million branded goods to South Africans at cheaper prices than available through other retailers.

MTN Group is making a number of changes to its executive leadership team across Africa.

Naspers Ventures is leading a US$2.3-million (R34-million) seed funding round in DappRadar, a platform for discovering and analysing blockchain-based decentralised applications, or dApps.

Just days after news emerged that Cell C was pulling the plug on its wholesale fixed-LTE broadband plans, MTN South Africa has stepped into the breach, offering high-capped packages at aggressive price points.

Logicalis Group, a subsidiary of JSE-listed technology group Datatec, has acquired two companies in Europe.

Nedbank has partnered with Microsoft to migrate components of its IT infrastructure into the cloud, the financial services company said on Monday.

Shares in JSE-listed technology company Mustek leapt higher on Wednesday after it told shareholders it expects full-year headline earnings per share to be as much as 38% higher than a year ago.