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The R35m sale of 51% of disaster-recovery firm Continuity SA by JSE-listed outsourcing specialist the Dialogue Group, has been finalised. CoroCapital, the investment banking firm

Smartphone sales soared 72,1% from 2009 to 2010 and accounted for 19% of total mobile communications device sales, new research from Gartner shows. That means nearly one in five phones now sold is a smartphone

Cell C has finally sold its stake in Virgin Mobile SA. UK-based Virgin Mobile will increase its stake by 5%, to 55%, with the remainder of Cell C’s 50% stake in the company being sold to Calico Investments of the Bahamas

Google is on the hunt for talent, hoping to double the size of its SA subsidiary from about 20 staff now, to roughly 40 people in the medium term. That’s the word from Google SA’s new country manager

The department of labour will not renew its 10-year IT contract with Siemens and plans to seek redress for failures by the electronics giant in the 22 months before it runs out. This route was recommended by KPMG in a report handed

In a no-holds-barred memo to Nokia employees this week, new CEO Stephen Elop has lamented the company’s slow response, first to Apple’s iPhone, and then to the rise of Google’s Android, suggesting it is “standing on a burning platform”

Energy-drinks company Red Bull and mobile operator Cell C have taken the wraps off their telecommunications joint venture, unveiling aggressive tariff plans that should get consumers

An undersea fibre-optic cable laid along the West African coast came ashore in Namibia on Tuesday, allowing high bandwidth connectivity for the country and its neighbours

Telkom’s attempt to have one of two potentially damaging competition cases against it quashed has been dashed by the Competition Tribunal. The case relates to allegations of abuse of dominance referred to

JSE-listed Reunert, which owns Nashua Mobile and other technology companies, has bought back another 3% of its ordinary share capital for R392,8m. The purchase brings to