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SA Internet company Incubeta Holdings has purchased local online media company Interface Holdings in a share-and-cash deal worth R100m as part of what it calls a “global expansion into the lucrative small and medium

The pressure is on at Telkom. The JSE-listed telecommunications group says tougher trading conditions, growing competition, regulatory challenges and fixed-to-mobile substitution have put pressure on revenue and

London-based company ForgetMeNot Africa wants to take services such as e-mail, instant messaging and social media to basic cellphones to increase African connectivity and digital engagement. Perhaps most appealing is that its offerings work on any phone that can

The US$700m Africa Coast to Europe (Ace) project to lay a high-capacity, 5,1Tbit/s submarine cable between France and SA is making good progress, with news late this week that the system has landed in Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa. The cable, which is co-owned by

JSE-listed media company Avusa has decided to close its group-buying business Zappon. It believes the deal-a-day group-buying model, pioneered by the US’s Groupon, is flawed but hasn’t ruled out relaunching a reworked model of the service in future. Groupon enjoyed early success with the

The SABC’s chief technology officer, Richard Waghorn, who was responsible for leading the broadcaster’s migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television and who has played a pivotal role in the country’s move to the new system, has resigned. He leaves the

SA companies are lagging their peers elsewhere in the world when it comes to dealing with information security. They are responding to problems as they happen rather than executing on coherent plans, though the situation is gradually improving. That’s a key finding of PricewaterhouseCoopers

The SA Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has given the green light to SA Airways (SAA) to allow passengers on the airline’s flights to use their smartphones and other supported devices in “flight mode”, where the devices’ radio antennae are switched off. SAA passengers on all domestic

This week, an estimated 180 000 EasyPay customers will receive an e-mail that offers money-back rewards on all their transactions as part of the company’s strategy to restore its credibility and regain customers’ confidence after its site was hit by credit-card fraud two

Chip-and-PIN cards were introduced in order to reduce the level of fraud on credit cards. The argument is that without the PIN your card cannot be used. However, many bank customers have found that their cards are still being used fraudulently and the only difference now is