Author: Staff Reporter

In the latest episode of South Africa’s top technology podcast, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg discuss Microsoft’s blow-out earnings, all thanks to the cloud. Also this week, they discuss the latest rumours, thanks to

Sony Mobile Communications has launched the Xperia Ear in South Africa. The in-ear personal assistant helps users to communicate via conversational voice interaction and head gestures. The Bluetooth-connected

South Africa’s long-delayed project to migrate from analogue to digital terrestrial television has “failed”. That’s the view of Democratic Alliance MP and shadow minister of telecommunications & postal services Marian Shinn, who said on Tuesday that

Social media app Tinder lets you find interesting people around you to meet, with users often accessing it for dating. A new South African start-up, called Carter, hopes to apply a similar technique to buying a

South African- and New York-listed technology group Net1 UEPS Technologies has acquired a 30% stake in Bank Frick & Co, a family-run bank based in Liechtenstein in Central Europe. Following completion of the transaction – which is still

Naspers-owned Internet video-on-demand service ShowMax should now be much quicker and more responsive in Kenya. This is after the company partnered with Seacom to put caching servers on the ground in the East African nation. The servers are located

In this week’s episode of TalkCentral, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg take a look at Netflix’s strong financial results – and they ask: has it taken the lead in South Africa from ShowMax? Also, this week, is WeChat

The Gupta family, through its business Oakbay Investments, has blasted finance minister Pravin Gordhan for his court application seeking a declaratory order that he cannot intervene in a decision by South Africa’s big

Communications minister Faith Muthambi has ignored a Promotion of Access to Information Act request for access to a national treasury report into irregularities in the procurement of

African technology start-ups raised at least $129m in funding in 2016, with the number of companies securing funding rising by almost 17% over the previous year, according to new research. Disrupt Africa’s Tech Start-ups Funding Report