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Shares in JSE-listed technology and media group Naspers took a battering on Friday as investors turned sour on Tencent, the fast-growing Chinese communications and e-commerce company that owns chat programs WeChat and QQ. Reuters reported that Naspers’s shares were off by their biggest one-day

An application to declare the e-tolling legislation unconstitutional and invalid was dismissed by the Western Cape high court on Thursday. “The application is dismissed. The parties shall bear their own costs,” Judge Owen Rogers said. He said the Democratic Alliance, which

The ANC has welcomed a judgment dismissing an application challenging the constitutionality of e-tolling legislation. “The ANC welcomes today’s ruling by the Western Cape high court to reject the Democratic Alliance’s latest challenge of the Sanral Act and National

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa is launching an inquiry into the state of competition in the information and technology sector, it said on Thursday. “The authority has powers under the Icasa Act to conduct an inquiry into a range of different issues

The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) wants communications regulator Icasa to focus on more than just voice call termination rates, and believes there needs to be a greater emphasis on dealing with the cost of mobile data services in South Africa. “Voice remains a significant issue for the average consumer. At the

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has announced plans to launch what it’s calling a “high-level inquiry into the state of competition in the information and communications technology sector”. The authority, which regulates the telecommunications, broadcasting and postal services sectors

Gijima has filled the long-vacant chief financial officer post at the listed IT services company. Ernst Röth will replace Carlos Ferreira, who resigned last July. Liesl Tweedie had been standing in in the position in an acting capacity. Röth has also been named to the board of the financially troubled company. For

Microsoft has stepped up its fight against software piracy in South Africa, working with the Hawks to execute raids in recent weeks on the premises of various resellers suspected of selling counterfeit and unlicensed products. In the most recent enforcement actions, about 100 counterfeit disks containing Microsoft

Johannesburg was the most active Twitter city in Africa in the last three months of 2013, according to a new study called How Africa Tweets. Johannesburg had 344 215 geo-located tweets, followed by Ekurhuleni with 264 172 and the Egyptian capital Cairo with 227 509, communications agency Portland said

Fast-growing technology services group EOH has reported another strong set of numbers, with headline earnings per share in the six months ended 31 January 2014 up by 33,9% on the back of a 38,4% improvement in revenue. The strong upward move wasn’t enough to push up the share price, however, which was