Author: Staff Reporter

Wireless Business Solutions, the company that owns iBurst, has finally set out its plans to build a national LTE-Advanced wireless broadband network following the acquisition of the business by a company backed by former top

President Jacob Zuma has decided to declare Tuesday, 27 December 2016 a public holiday. The additional holiday comes because Christmas Day falls on a Sunday. Zuma made the decision in terms of section

SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s attempt to appeal a court order against his appointment has been flatly rejected by the supreme court of appeal in Bloemfontein, a decision that the Democratic Alliance said on

Teraco has increased the speed and capacity of its Internet exchange point, NAPAfrica, by making a “significant investment” in a new, programmable switching platform from Arista Networks. The migration comes four years after the

The Huffington Post, the left-leaning American news aggregator and blog site, is to be launched in South Africa in partnership with Naspers subsidiary Media24. The site will go live in November. The partnership was announced on Friday

Four months after rival Vodacom South Africa pulled the plug on its mobile payments platform M-Pesa, MTN South Africa is doing the same with its Mobile Money offering. The move by MTN comes just two weeks after news emerged that

A malicious Android app, available until recently in the Google Play store and capable of seizing root access rights on users’ phones, has been downloaded more than half a million times, according to security

Media24 is selling financial and market data feeds provider INET BFA to financial markets technology specialist IRESS for R149,6m in cash. The acquisition of INET BFA will add to IRESS’s trading, market data, portfolio

Mobile operator Cell C has made its first foray into the content space, launching an online reality show tagged #BreakTheNet, or #BTN, in partnership with Bl!nk Pictures. Cell C said the show, which is focused

South African mobile payments start-up iKhokha and Mastercard have agreed to work together to boost payment card acceptance at micro, small and medium enterprises in informal settlements. In the next six months, iKhokha aims to roll