After almost a full day of service disruption, Standard Bank late on Monday said it had finally resolved all technical issues that resulted in downtime on its website, in its smartphone and tablet applications, in branches and in its call centres. The bank has blamed
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Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn has described the move by telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele and the Public Service Commission to launch an independent probe into the problems besetting the troubled telecoms department
Standard Bank’s online banking services were offline on Monday morning, prompting frustrated customers to turn to social media to complain. “Internet banking is temporarily unavailable [and] we are working on restoring services urgently. Apologies
Telkom has paid out R1,1bn in voluntary early retirement and severance packages, according to the company’s quarterly report. On Friday, the company released an operational update for the quarter ended 30 June 2015. The operational update was released on
Government is not doing enough to create the environment necessary to grow South Africa’s information and communications technology sector and can learn from what other African countries, including Kenya and Rwanda, are doing in this regard
A technology-powered South African home cleaning start-up, SweepSouth, has become the first local company to be selected by 500 Startups, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund and start-up accelerator. It’s the first time a South African company
Dimension Data has asked the Competition Tribunal to impose additional constraints on Telkom if the telecommunications operator is allowed to buy listed IT services company Business Connexion. But BCX
Neotel CEO Sunil Joshi and chief financial officer Steven Whiley have been placed on “special leave” pending an investigation into alleged bribery and corruption at the telecommunications operator
Telkom’s share price has leapt by almost 8% to R61,48 after it provided a positive quarterly update for the three months ended 30 June 2015. The quarter is the first of Telkom’s financial year, which ends in March. It said that in the three months
The man tasked with turning around the beleaguered South African Post Office has been given another extended term by government. The Post Office was put under administration in November last year after a protracted four-month illegal