Author: Staff Reporter

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

A day after shaking the local Internet market by providing capped digital subscriber line (DSL) users with 18 hours a day of unlimited Internet access, Afrihost has announced it is chopping uncapped DSL prices. The price of Afrihost’s

Internet service provider Afrihost’s management team, fresh from buying back the company from mobile operator MTN, is moving to shake up the fixed-line broadband market, providing capped digital subscriber line users 18 hours

MTN Group and financial services provider MMI Holdings have announced they’re creating a new joint venture, branded aYo, to deliver micro insurance solutions across Africa. Insurance penetration is low

Vodacom doesn’t have the spectrum it needs to launch next-generation 4G+ broadband services nationwide, but the unique nature of the Gautrain tunnel system has allowed it to launch the technology on a limited scale in Gauteng. As a result of the deployment, Vodacom

Pan-African telecommunications operator, Seacom, which is best known for building an undersea fibre cable along Africa’s east coast seven years ago, has gone live with a point of presence in Slough, about 30km west