Author: Staff Reporter

Niche telecommunications provider Huge Group is mulling acquisitions after reporting a 45% improvement in headline earnings per share for the year ended 29 February 2016, despite only a modest 6% improvement in revenue. Operating profit rose

Google is not the only big US technology company getting into the telecommunications business. Microsoft and Facebook have just announced they will build a super-fast transatlantic subsea cable with a design capacity of 160Tbit/s. The cable system

The SABC late on Thursday said it will, with immediate effect, no longer broadcast “destructive and regressive” footage of public violence that involves the burning of public institutions such as schools in its news bulletins. “We are not going to

MTN has launched a pilot broadcasting service using digital terrestrial television. The pilot, being run in Nigeria, follows the decision by the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation to award its

Videogaming as spectactor sport? You betcha! South Africa’s biggest sports broadcaster, SuperSport, owned by DStv parent MultiChoice, has announced it has signed up to broadcast ELeague, featuring

A new research report has pegged the software piracy rate in South Africa at 33%, a one percentage point decline since the country was last surveyed in 2013. The report, by the BSA The

Windows now has less than 1% of the worldwide smartphone market, according to new research, again calling into question whether the Microsoft platform can survive – and whether it matters if it doesn’t. According to new research

Diversified electronics, electrical and technology group Reunert has hiked its interim gross cash dividend by 7,6% to R1,13/share after reporting a year-on-year improvement in its results for the six months ended 31 March 2016. The group, which owns

The Western Cape high court has dismissed an appeal by the SABC of a judgment setting aside Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s permanent appointment as chief operating officer of the public broadcaster. The Democratic Alliance on Monday welcomed

Nigeria has reportedly suspended discussions with MTN over the record US$3,9bn fine imposed on the mobile operator’s subsidiary there while the country’s parliament investigates the size of the penalty and the way in which it was imposed