Plans to build a new submarine broadband cable from South Africa across the south Atlantic appear to be gathering pace, with SAEx International announcing on Thursday that is has contracted Nokia’s Alcatel Submarine Networks.
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The South African Banking Risk Information Centre on Thursday warned of a surge in Sim-swap fraud in the country.
Facebook has hired Africa Check and AFP to try to crack down on the sharing of fake news on the social media platform in South Africa.
Dimension Data’s Internet Solutions has bolstered its business cloud computing offering by adding partnerships with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud to its CloudConnect offering.
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) on Thursday slammed communications regulator Icasa’s new call termination rate regime, saying it favours the industry’s larger players.
South African banks are reporting phenomenal growth in the use of banking apps despite the country’s finite banked population, stagnant levels of smartphone penetration and relatively low levels of financial literacy.
EOH Holdings financial director John King has resigned. King announced his decision to leave the business at the group’s annual results presentation in Sandton on Wednesday.
Stephen Van Coller, EOH Holdings’ new CEO, said he will use a R1-billion cash injection from a stake sale to black investors to pay for acquisitions and decrease the group’s bank debt.
The most troubled year in EOH’s history has ended, with the JSE-listed technology services group reporting a loss of R104-million, down from a profit of R1.2-billion in 2017.
Microsoft has upgraded three of its Surface computers, unveiled wireless over-ear headphones and released software to better integrate its devices with iPhones and Android phones.