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In the run up to its full-year results presentation next month, JSE-listed multinational IT group Datatec says it has continued to improve its performance with economic conditions improving

FireID, a promising Cape Town-based start-up funded by billionaire Johann Rupert’s Reinet, is no more. The company retrenched its entire staff complement on Wednesday and will shut up shop

Microsoft’s proposed R472m black empowerment deal will finally come to fruition after months of delays and discussions with the department of trade & industry. Microsoft was supposed to announce the names of four

Vodacom Business has begun rolling out fibre-optic networks in smaller Western Cape towns, including Paarl, Stellenbosch, Somerset West and Wellington

After almost two years of being led by acting CEOs, the embattled State IT Agency (Sita) has appointed Blake Mosley-Lefatola to the leadership position

Fast-growing international deal-of-the-day website Groupon has acquired SA e-commerce provider Twangoo. The value of the transaction has not been disclosed

SA is to get a Wikipedia chapter. Among other things, the chapter, the first in Africa, will encourage translation of the free online encyclopaedia into local languages. A group of local volunteers has begun working on making Wikipedia

There’s finally some movement in the long-awaited auction of radio frequency spectrum in the 2,6GHz and 3,5GHz bands, with the appointment of a specialist auctioneer imminent. The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has

The demand for electricity was set to increase by about 2% in 2011 as the country’s economy recovered, Eskom CEO Brian Dames said on Thursday. “Therefore, we are targeting every day