Author: Staff Reporter

Naspers’s video-on-demand platform, ShowMax, has launched a lower-priced bouquet with a strong focus on local content. The new bouquet, which is available exclusively to Vodacom customers, costs R49/month

IBM will invest $70m (about R950m) in developing IT skills in Africa, the US technology giant said on Wednesday. The money will be used to build digital, cloud and cognitive computing IT skills to “help support a

Communications regulator Icasa will hold public hearings later this week that will determine how scarce radio frequency spectrum is utilised in future. The idea, according to Icasa, is to update the National Radio Frequency Plan to

Cape Town-based Silvertree Internet Holdings, the parent of price comparison website PriceCheck, has acquired a similar business in Nigeria, TopCheck, for an undisclosed sum. The move, Silvertree said, creates Africa’s largest online

Internet ride-hailing service Uber has begun mapping Johannesburg, using specially equipped vehicles to gather imagery and other information aimed at improving its core product. In 2016, Uber started putting mapping cars on the road in Mexico, Canada

The SABC has been handed yet another legal defeat over efforts to defend its former chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng. The high court in the Western Cape on Tuesday dismissed the SABC’s appeal against an earlier judgment

South Africa’s third biggest mobile operator, Cell C, has been downgraded after missing an interest payment, S&P Global Ratings has said in a statement. The rating agency downgraded Cell C to “D”. According to the company’s website

Networks currently interconnecting through Internet exchanges can now use their peering ports to make virtual private network interconnects to other networks, at no cost, INX-ZA, which operates the exchanges, said

South African Internet billionaire Mark Shuttleworth’s HBD Venture Capital has sold its stake in South African 3D Doppler ball-tracking sports radar specialist FlightScope to management on what

EOH has announced it plans to acquire 100% of the long-established Cornastone group of companies, subject to regulatory approvals. The black-led Cornastone has been in business for more than