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Troubled diversified technology group Altron has announced it will consolidate its head office, with subsidiaries Altech and Bytes – currently housed in a building in Woodmead, Johannesburg – moving to Altron’s head office in Parktown. The move will allow
Year-on-year supply and demand for Internet accommodation service Airbnb is exploding in South Africa with triple-digit percentage growth. This is according to Airbnb GM for the Middle East and Africa Nicola D’Elia, who is visiting South Africa this
Almost 200 000 newly issued smart ID cards are gathering dust at home affairs offices around the country. Of the 187 799 cards that are ready for collection, in Gauteng
Chinese fibre-optic cable manufacturer Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Company has announced plans to establish a telecommunications fibre cable manufacturing facility at the Dube TradePort
MTN has confirmed its willingness to engage in talks with the FF Plus after the party announced its intention to take complaints against the cellphone company to parliament. Corporate services executive at MTN South Africa Graham de Vries said although the company had not
Video-on-demand platform FrontRow, launched earlier this by MTN in partnership with Discover Digital, has been rebranded as VU, effective 1 December, and has cut its prices to match the competition. As with FrontRow before it, MTN subscribers’ data will be zero-rated (provided free) when they stream
Telkom has dramatically expanded its uncapped 4G/LTE offer to 520 base stations, taking the product, which offers unmetered wireless broadband from R599/month, to seven provinces outside Gauteng. It has also upped the number of neighbourhoods in Gauteng that can get the deal
Financial services company Discovery is giving away Apple Watches – but at an exercising cost. The company, which sells health insurance services, announced on Tuesday that it will fund Apple Watch devices in full for Vitality Active Rewards members, if they meet all their weekly fitness goals for 24 months
Altron has named Andrew Holden as the successor to Rob Abraham at its subsidiary, Bytes Technology Group. The long-serving Abraham will step down as Bytes CEO on 29 February 2016, with Holden to step in as operations executive for information technology. In recent
MWeb has cut the price of fibre-to-the-home broadband in areas where last-mile fibre specialist Vumatel provides infrastructure. The Internet service provider said on Tuesday that it is also increasing data cap sizes at the same time as cutting prices. Details about
