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GroTech, a fund with an appetite for high growth, disruptive technology companies, is betting on the fact that Goliaths just aren’t that good at innovating. It would rather back the Davids that can do it

The Internet Service Providers’ Association says South Africa’s mobile operators need to develop new ways of partnering and competing with “over-the-top” services such as Skype and WhatsApp instead of trying to have them regulated. In a statement

Technology-powered South African start-up SweepSouth, which provides online, on-demand home cleaning services, has secured R10m in new venture capital funding, it said on Monday. The funding comes from the Vumela Fund, as well

A court in Nigeria has given MTN and the Nigerian Communications Commission two months to try to settle a dispute over a record-setting US$3,9bn fine imposed on the telecommunications operator by the commission. The development has raised hopes that

Thumbing a nose at its competitors in the raging debate over “over the top” (OTT) services, mobile operator Cell C has announced it will provide free WhatsApp calling to some of its customers. However, the offer is limited in that it will only be available

Multiple cable faults on Thursday, one in the UK and two in Egypt, which affected the services of two major subsea cable systems that connect South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa to the global Internet, left millions of mobile and fixed-line Internet users

Internet connectivity to and from South Africa and much of the rest of sub-Saharan Africa was undermined severely on Thursday after two cable systems experienced significant problems. Seacom, the cable system which runs along Africa’s east coast

Netflix appears to be moving quickly to make good on a threat that it would cut off subscribers accessing its content from outside the territory in which they are located. Users in Australia have begun reporting that they can’t use proxy services and virtual

Far from the personal computing era being over, young consumers – those between 18 and 24 – are the most pro-PC of all age groups in 2016 and are “very unlikely” to abandon the PC as a platform. This is a key finding in Deloitte Global’s new TMT Predictions 2016 report