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Cape Town-based online retailer Takealot.com has acquired 60% of Mr Delivery – recently rebranded as Mr D – for an undisclosed sum. Over the past year, Mr D has established itself as a delivery vehicle for online orders through a partnership with Takealot. Mr D
MWeb, the Internet service provider owned by media group Naspers, is assessing Telkom Internet’s dramatic broadband price reductions, announced on Thursday, and has told TechCentral it will respond with product announcements of its own early next week. This comes after
First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan may be planning to leave the bank at the end of the year, according to a report. The 44-year-old has been CEO since 2004 and has been instrumental in driving its digital strategy, including the development of mobile banking applications and its drive to get consumers to use digital
Judge Louis Vorster had misinterpreted a section of the Sanral Act on public consultation to reach his ruling that e-tolling could proceed, the high court in Pretoria heard on Friday. Mike Maritz, for the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa), argued before Vorster that he had “erred fundamentally” in his interpretation
Telkom has historically been a follower when it comes to cutting broadband prices, but the fixed-line operator looks determined to lead the charge in 2013 with aggressive price cuts from its Internet service provider (ISP) business, Telkom Internet, whose new uncapped consumer broadband prices
China’s Tencent, in which JSE-listed Internet and media group Naspers holds a 35% stake, appears to have designs on the African market and is preparing to ramp up focus on South Africa and Africa more broadly with its WeChat platform. Tencent, well known in China for its QQ
Shares in Apple plunged by almost 10% in after-hours trading on Wednesday in New York after the consumer electronics company published first-quarter financial results that fell short of analysts’ expectations. Investors appear to have taken fright, in particular, at the
Have a Pretoria-based attorney and his partners invented a technology that could help change the world? Corrie de Jager believes his company, Hydrox Holdings, has developed a process that represents a “major step forward in unlocking the hydrogen era”. De Jager says the
The ANC is trying to deflect attention away from the fact that millions have been siphoned out of state-owned enterprises, including Telkom, for a series of The New Age newspaper’s business breakfasts, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said on Wednesday. “[Telkom’s involvement] was
The Galaxy S3 Mini, the smaller brother of the world’s best-selling Android smartphone, the Galaxy S3, has gone on sale in South Africa for a recommended retail price of R4 599 for an 8GB model. A 16GB version of the Mini will retail for R4 999. A 16GB of the bigger S3 starts at about
