Author: Staff Reporter

Amazon Web Services, the cloud division of Amazon.com, may build data centres in South Africa, according to a report published on Sunday. The company plans to switch on an “AWS Direct Connect” service in Johannesburg and Cape Town this

The aggressive selloff in EOH shares continued on Friday morning, with the counter shedding another 41% to reach lows last seen six years ago, well below R30/share. Friday morning’s plunge follows a 34.7% decline on Thursday

EOH’s share price plunged more than 45% in intraday trading on Thursday, though industry analysts polled by TechCentral don’t know why it tumbled so precipitously. The company did not to respond to a request for comment

Two of the biggest players in online travel in Africa are hooking up. Travelstart said on Wednesday that it is acquiring a majority stake in SafariNow.com, which it said is South Africa’s largest accommodation booking website

In its annual assessment of the cabinet, the Democratic Alliance has given poor grades to the ministers of communications and telecommunications & postal services. South Africa’s largest opposition party scored telecoms

Altron chief financial officer Alex Smith will step down at the end of February 2018 to take up the same role at Net1 UEPS Technologies. Smith had been at Altron for 12 years. Smith replaces Herman Kotze as CFO

Communications regulator Icasa has found that Cell C followed due process during its recapitalisation, as part of which Blue Label Telecoms and Net1 UEPS Technologies invested R7.5bn in the company, the mobile operator

Datatec shareholders are in line for a special cash dividend totalling R4.9bn following the Johannesburg- and London-listed IT group’s sale of its Westcon Americas unit. The group said on Wednesday that is has declared a special

Not only does Elon Musk deny being the mysterious creator of bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto, but he’s also forgotten where he keeps his cryptocurrency. Musk’s assertions came in response to a blog post coursing through

The Democratic Alliance has called on MultiChoice to publish the contracts it entered into with the Gupta-owned 24-hour news channel ANN7 along with the record of negotiations with the channel. It also wants parliament to