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Henry Ferreira
Henry Ferreira
Listed technology distributor Pinnacle Holdings has named IT industry veteran Henry Ferreira as an executive director on its board. Ferreira, 61, has been appointed to “enhance the capacity of the board and also assist in managing the future growth of Pinnacle”, the company said in a statement to shareholders on Monday. He will take
South African technology firms and other companies can now transfer intellectual property (IP) offshore thanks to a relaxation of exchange control regulations in this regard. One of challenges that private companies in South Africa have faced is their inability to tap into international venture capital markets, with the main obstacle being
Eskom will know by the end of the month whether it needs to increase its electricity tariffs, it said on Thursday. In a statement, the state-owned enterprise said it was awaiting a determination from the National Energy Regulator of South Africa. It asked Nersa last year to evaluate and approve the regulatory clearing account balance for its previous
Altron intends hanging tough with subsidiary Altech Autopage. The diversified technology group’s CEO, Robbie Venter, says it has no plans to sell Autopage or its million-strong subscriber base after rival Reunert announced in April that it would sell Nashua Mobile’s base. The decision by Reunert means Autopage will soon be the last
Telkom will consider employment equity in its latest round of planned job cuts, which could affect more than 2 600 management-level employees, a report said on Wednesday. This means that partially state-owned and JSE-listed telecommunications operator “plans to target white, male employees when making job cuts”, according to
A South African toll-fee tracking application for smartphones, which was conceptualised and developed by a local entrepreneur, has been launched in the US. TechCentral first revealed details of Toll Track a year ago when it interviewed developer and entrepreneur Jacques Theyse, who built the app to keep track of what he owed in
Shares in South African-headquartered media, communications and e-commerce giant Naspers leapt higher on Wednesday on the back of strong results from China’s Tencent, in which it holds an approximate one-third stake. Naspers was trading up by more than 8,5%
If there was any doubt about South Africans’ interest in the results of last week’s election, the traffic numbers from News24 – more than 102 000 concurrent users and 8,5TB of data served in two days – should put that to rest. According to the statistics from website analytics firm Effective Measure, News24, which is ultimately owned
Vodacom, the top-rated company in the Reputation Institute’s annual National RepTrak Pulse survey last year, has fared “particularly poorly” in the 2014 edition of the survey, falling to sixth position and behind rival MTN. The survey found that there has been a “bloodbath” in company reputations, with the exception
The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) has launched a smartphone application to help residents of the city report potholes and faulty traffic lights. The Find & Fix app forms part of the JRA’s turnaround strategy and focus on service delivery. “The organisation is
