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Web retailer and technology giant Amazon has announced plans to open an office of Amazon Web Services in Johannesburg. The new office joins the established Amazon Development Centre in Cape Town, which has been in operation since 2004

Acting Eskom board chairman Ben Ngubane disclosed in the utility’s integrated report that Eskom has already applied for a further R38bn of revenue to be generated through electricity tariffs. This application is currently under consideration by energy regulator Nersa

Shoppers at The Pavilion, a large shopping centre in Durban, can now pay for their parking using their mobile phones. MasterCard has rolled out its digital wallet service, called MasterPass, at The Pavilion, allowing shoppers to pay using their phones. The shopping

ShowMax is the name of Naspers’s Netflix rival, which will be launched to the media in Johannesburg next Wednesday. That’s according to a report on the entertainment news website Channel24, which is owned by Naspers subsidiary Media24. According

StarSat parent On Digital Media (ODM) has no intention of withdrawing a complaint it lodged against MultiChoice in 2013 at the Competition Commission, in which it accused its rival of engaging

Thieves robbing Eskom of conductors, cabling and related equipment cost the utility R102m in the last financial year, according to its annual financial statement. This was a 30% increase from the previous

Dimension Data is getting a new CEO for its Middle East and Africa business. Grant Bodley, who has been with the IT services group for the past 15 years, will be taking on the role with current CEO

Media and technology group Naspers is said to be planning a video-on-demand rival to Netflix, and may be intending to announce the new service at a media conference in South Africa as early as next week. Naspers owns MultiChoice, which operates

Two months after missing the international deadline for switching from analogue to digital terrestrial television, South Africa has still not begun commercial digital broadcasts. However, the department of communications said in parliament on Tuesday that it is