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Vodacom and Deezer have entered into an exclusive partnership to provide the mobile operator’s customers access to the music service’s 35m songs. The announcement follows speculation earlier this week that Deezer was looking

DStv parent MultiChoice will never attempt to prosecute anyone in South Africa subscribing to international streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu, which don’t operate in the country. Many South African consumers

Since moving away from FM radio in May, Gareth Cliff has been driving a new brand of radio that he hopes will break all the rules imposed by traditional broadcasters. Speaking at Tech4Africa in Johannesburg on Wednesday, Cliff said

Platco Digital, the parent company of free-to-air satellite television broadcaster OpenView HD, hopes its decision to lease capacity on Intelsat’s IS20 satellite – the same satellite used by MultiChoice for DStv – will help it attract newly licensed

Powertech and Altech Autopage have acted as a drag on technology group Altron’s earnings for the six months ended 31 August 2014, but this has been offset, to a degree, by strong performances from IT services group Bytes and other businesses in the group’s TMT division. For the interim

Two of South Africa’s largest online retailers – and longstanding adversaries – have agreed to merge. Kalahari.com, owned by JSE-listed media and e-commerce group Naspers, will be folded into Takealot.com, the e-retailer that recently secured US$100m from investment firm

South Africa has ranked 56th out of 144 countries, according to the World Economic Forum’s 2014/2015 Global Competitiveness Index (GCI). Last year the country’s ranking was 53rd out of 148. The index looked at 12 “pillars” — institutions, infrastructure, macroeconomic environment

A new website that maps start-ups in Cape Town wants to encourage better connections between the various new businesses in the city by giving them the opportunity to put themselves on the map – literally. Mapped in Cape Town went live on Monday and is

A shift away from focusing mainly on products and onto more complex value-added IT services appears to be paying off for Datacentrix. JSE-listed technology group has lifted headline earnings per share year on year by 16% to 24,3c on the back of a 9% improvement in

President Jacob Zuma has not received a letter from the national assembly requesting him to suspend SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala, the presidency has said. “According to media reports, the portfolio committee on communications in the national assembly has recommended