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It’s all about the cloud for Microsoft in South Africa. No, not the cirrus and cumulus variety — the software giant is shifting its focus to delivering cloud computing-based services to everyone, on every device. And that includes non-Windows platforms, says Microsoft
The Democratic Alliance is set to go to court to compel communications watchdog Icasa to hear its complaint against the SABC over the broadcaster’s pulling of one of its election advertisements. Icasa had not fulfilled its regulatory and constitutional obligations with regards to the
JSE-listed technology services provider Business Connexion has reported a slight decline in normalised headline earnings per share of 20,7c in the six months ended 28 February 2014, from 21,3c previously. Revenue for the period was R3,1bn
The Right2Know Campaign and SOS: Support Public Broadcasting have written to the controversial SABC board chair, Zandile Tshabalala, to ask her whether she invoked the National Key Points Act to warn staff not to leak information to the public, as staff have claimed. This was not the first time the National Key Points
Johannesburg executive mayor Parks Tau has promised that his administration will roll out a thousand Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the city before the end of his five-year mayoral term in 2016. He made the pledge in his state of the city address, which he delivered in Soweto on Monday. “This year will see the completion of the roll-out of our
Pick n Pay is expanding its relationship with mobile operator MTN, introducing a new Sim card that will allow consumers to earn free airtime and data when shopping at any of the retailer’s stores. The two companies first forged a partnership in 2010 when they launching Mobile Money, a money transfer
Altech has bought the 50% (less one share) of NuPay that it doesn’t already own in a deal valued at R80m, the technology company owned said on Tuesday. The Altron-owned company bought its initial stake in NuPay in 2009. NuPay forms part of the Card Solutions division of Altech, which is to be integrated with the Bytes
Retrenchments at Nashua Mobile are inevitable following the decision to sell its customer base and to close the business, but parent Reunert says “all options are being considered” to find places for them within the rest of the JSE-listed group and in the broader industry. That’s the word from Reunert spokesman Carina de Klerk
Service provider Nashua Mobile has agreed to sell its MTN and Vodacom subscriber bases to the two mobile operators and is in talks to sell its Cell C subscriber base, too, parent Reunert told shareholders on Monday. Nashua Mobile will receive almost R2,3bn from the sale, before VAT. It appears that the two big mobile
Nashua Mobile will close all of its operations once it has completed the sale of its subscriber base to South Africa’s mobile operators, it said on Monday. The company has promised its customers that they will continue to receive uninterrupted service after announcing that it had reached an agreement to sell most of its subscriber
