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Apple has unveiled its most important new iPhone for years to take on growing competition from Samsung Electronics, Google and a host of Chinese smartphone makers. CEO Tim Cook showed

Bell Pottinger, the UK PR firm founded by an adviser to Margaret Thatcher and slammed for stoking racial tensions in South Africa, has filed for administration. Bell Pottinger named financial

The big daddy of streaming music services finally looks set to launch in South Africa. The company has placed a job advertisement for a senior editor and music programmer for the local market. The ad, which

Naspers is making its video streaming service Showmax available as a free value-added service to DStv Premium subscribers. An update to the DStv Now app, released on Monday, said Showmax

The JSE’s AltX is set to get a new technology listing. 4Sight Holdings, which recently acquired Digitata Mauritius for an undisclosed sum, will head to the AltX in October, the company said. The holding company

Alviva Holdings (formerly Pinnacle Holdings) has acquired two companies, one an infrastructure management firm and the other of a developer electric-car charging point software. The first acquisition

If the embattled South Africa Social Security Agency makes good on its promise, the South African Post Office will be contracted to take over social grant payments from incumbent Cash Paymaster Services in the next seven

The high cost of roaming in the Southern African Development Community region has come under the spotlight at a meeting of ICT ministers taking place in Durban, with renewed calls for operators to reduce roaming costs in