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Judgment in the multimillion-rand case against Vodacom by former employee Nkosana Makate has been reserved, it was reported on Wednesday. Lawyers representing both parties concluded their closing arguments in the high court in Johannesburg on Tuesday
Independent data centre operator Teraco has begun work on a third facility, located at Great Westerford near Newlands in Cape Town, the company said on Wednesday. The new data centre is Teraco’s second in Cape Town. It opened another facility in the city’s
Nedbank has added functionality to its smartphone banking application that allows blind people and those with visual impairments to use the software. The bank’s technology divisional executive, Glenn Smith, says the app offers the same experience it does to a person with good
JSE-listed Adapt IT has acquired a 100% stake in South African oil and gas consultancy Aquilon in a deal worth R98m. The acquisition will allow Adapt IT to expand into Africa’s fast-growing energy sector and strengthen its SAP solutions expertise. Aquilon
The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) on Tuesday welcomed a new legal offensive against e-tolling by two political parties. “We maintain the legislation lacks both ethical legitimacy, as well as formal lawfulness,” chairman Wayne Duvenage said in a statement
Troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry is replacing the MD of its Africa region with immediate effect. Yudi Moodley is taking over from Alexandra Zagury, who has been named as the new MD of company’s UK and Ireland operation. Moodley will be responsible
Vodacom has won protracted international arbitration proceedings in its long-running dispute with Congolese Wireless Network, the minority shareholder in its operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Relations between the two companies
Stellenbosch-based Mxit, the social mobile chat company now chaired by outgoing First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan, has released version 7 of it social network for feature phones, with iPhone and iPad versions coming later in the week. The launch of Mxit 7 is
Vodacom has come out guns blazing against proposals by its regulator, Icasa, that mobile call termination rates be slashed over the next three years while giving the company’s smaller rivals a leg up through “asymmetry”. Icasa wants the new rates – which operators charge each
Standard Bank has become the second South African bank in a fortnight to announce a transactional banking application in the Windows Phone store, signalling growing interest in the Microsoft smartphone platform. The Standard Bank app for Windows Phone
