Author: Staff Reporter

Shipments of personal computing devices – desktops, notebooks, workstations and tablets – in Africa and the Middle East declined by 5.3% year on year in the first quarter of 2018, according to new research from

The South African Reserve Bank, through its fintech unit, has successfully demonstrated a real-world trial of a distributed ledger technology-based wholesale payment system. The Bank has released a report on Project

Johannesburg-headquartered Dimension Data and its subsidiary Merchants have acquired 100% of Canadian business process outsourcing specialist Millennium 1 Solutions for an undisclosed sum. Millennium provides

About 32% of software installed on computers in South Africa is not “properly licensed”, a one percentage point decline compared to 2016, according to a new survey by BSA The Software Alliance. Commercial value of unlicensed

South African bought 3.2m smartphones in the first quarter of 2018, a 12.4% increase year on year, according to data released by market research firm GfK on Tuesday. The value of the smartphone segment increased by

Telkom has launched a new 150MB FreeMe bundle, offering consumers 150MB of data, 50 SMSes and 150 minutes of on-network calling for R29. Launched as part of the company’s new prepaid campaigned

JSE-listed technology multinational Datatec has appointed Ekta Singh-Bushell to its board of directors. Singh-Bushell, who has served as chief operating officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, joins Datatec as an

MTN has kick-started the process of listing shares on the Ghana Stock Exchange. The telecommunications group said in a statement on Tuesday that MTN Ghana has launched an initial public offering, which will be

BitCaw, a cryptocurrency specialist, is threatening the Hawks with a damages claim if the police agency doesn’t correct a statement it issued last week that it was involved in an investment fraud that affected more than

Sygnia, the financial services group headed by outspoken businesswoman Magda Wierzycka, plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange in the third quarter of 2018 that will allow its clients to trade in crypto assets