Author: Staff Reporter

Worldwide PC shipments fell by 8,3% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to the preliminary results of new Gartner research. For the year, shipments fell by 8% to 288,7m units

Technology start-ups in Africa secured total funding of more than US$185,7m, or R3,1bn, in 2015, according to new data. Research by Disrupt Africa, a website that focuses on the start-up ecosystem on the continent, found that the money was shared between 125 tech start-ups

Technology group EOH, whose share price has come under significant selling pressure in the past month as investors worry about its ability to maintain its stellar growth record, rose by almost 2% in trading on Tuesday morning after telling shareholders it is on track to report significant growth

Silvertree Capital, the investment arm of Cape Town-based Silvertree Internet Holdings (SIH), plans to invest US$10m (about R170m) in consumer-focused Internet start-ups in 2016, it said on Tuesday. The company, whose business-to-consumer e-commerce investments include

Networking giant Cisco expects cloud traffic in Africa and the Middle East to more than quadruple by the end of 2019, with 83% of all data centre traffic in the region coming from the cloud. The forecast is contained in the fifth annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2014-2019), released

Criminals, possibly from within the industry, have begun targeting fibre broadband companies deploying infrastructure in South Africa. FTTH Council Africa president Richard Came said there has been a spate of armed hijackings targeting local fibre broadband installers, with the

The Nigerian government is playing hardball with MTN, demanding that the telecommunications operator pay a US$3,9bn (R59bn) fine for failing to cut off 5m unregistered Sim cards by 31 December, according to a report. Bloomberg reported that the

MTN has engaged seven Nigerian senior advocates to fight the US$3,9bn fine imposed on it by the Nigerian Communications Commission for failing to disconnect more than 5m

Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors looks set to establish its first presence in South Africa, it was reported on Friday. Tesla is planning to set up a local office early in the new year. The plan is not to sell Tesla’s high-end electric cars in South Africa – not yet, at least – but rather

One of South Africa’s most prominent upmarket estates, Dainfern, north of Fourways in Johannesburg, has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for the installation of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband to 1 236 houses in the area. The move comes after Telkom