Author: Staff Reporter

Multiple cable faults on Thursday, one in the UK and two in Egypt, which affected the services of two major subsea cable systems that connect South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa to the global Internet, left millions of mobile and fixed-line Internet users

The collapse in the value of the rand against major currencies in the past couple of months has prompted Apple to increase the price of both apps and in-app purchases in the South African version of the App Store

Metrofibre Networx has won a contract to install fibre broadband in the Beaulieu, Heathcliff and Blue Hills estates north of Johannesburg. It has been named the preferred high-speed fibre and data services supplier for the area

MTN’s market capitalisation is in danger of falling below that of rival Vodacom as investors continue to fret about the unprecedented fine the group is facing in Nigeria and uncertainty about its operational performance in that market and in South Africa

Naspers-owned video-on-demand platform ShowMax has reached a deal with Internet service provider MWeb in terms of which users will get three months of “free” ADSL along with three months of complimentary access to ShowMax. The offer is

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