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Amazon is ready to deliver packages to customers using drones. And it’s getting Jeremy Clarkson to tell you – and the regulators who need to approve the technology – all about it. Clarkson, a former co-host of the hit BBC motoring show Top Gear (he was fired for punching a producer), signed a
South African telecommunications operator Telkom hopes to get a mention in Guinness World Records as part of an attempt to break the current record for longest marathon of watching movies, which currently stands at 120 hours and 23 minutes (about five days). The movies
President Jacob Zuma and his Nigerian counterpart, Muhammadu Buhari, are set to meet in Johannesburg this week to discuss the US$5,2bn fine imposed by Nigerian authorities on South African telecommunications group MTN’s subsidiary in the West African nation, it was reported on Sunday
First National Bank has apologised for inconveniencing some of its clients on Saturday. “We apologise to any of our customers who weren’t able to make purchases using their FNB cards a short while ago. This problem has now been resolved,” tweeted the bank
Neotel’s chief financial officer, Steven Whiley, has resigned. Whiley was suspended from the telecommunications operator in July, along with CEO Sunil Joshi, over allegations of bribery related to a multibillion-rand contract at Transnet. In a tersely worded statement on Friday, Neotel said
Online businesses helped spur on a 24% year-on-year revenue growth at Internet and media giant Naspers. In its interim results announcement on Friday, Naspers reported that its revenue measured on an economic interest base topped R74,3bn for the six months ended September 2015
Shares in technology and media giant Naspers came under selling pressure late on Friday afternoon after it announced plans to raise as much as US$2,5bn (about R36bn) through a capital-raising exercise. Shares in Naspers were trading down by almost 4% shortly
he Democratic Alliance was pleased it had won a judgment declaring communications minister Faith Muthambi’s appointment of suspended SABC boss Hlaudi Motsoeneng unlawful and irrational. ”We were confident,” DA MP Anneline Lottriet said outside the Western Cape high
The department of home affairs is installing upgrades to systems at many of its branches around the country, and those branches will not be able to process ID and passport applications until 2 December. The upgrades will take place from 2pm on Friday and are aimed
The Democratic Alliance has released its annual cabinet report card, and the two ICT ministers, Faith Muthambi at communications and Siyabonga Cwele at telecommunications & postal services, have been given very poor grades. Muthambi emerged with the DA’s lowest
