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JSE-listed retail group JD Group has appointed its group executive for new business development for retail, Marco van Niekerk, as the new CEO of Incredible Connection. In addition, JD has made various changes and new appointments to Incredible’s executive team
Cell C is making its promotional reduction in the cost of calls to selected international markets permanent and has filed the new rates with the Independent Communications Authority of SA. At the same time, it has added Hong Kong and Australia to the new calling plans. Calls to the US, UK, India, Pakistan
If DStv-operator MultiChoice gets the go-ahead, get ready for Web addresses such as bigbrother.mnet and guide.dstv sometime next year. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has released a list of the applicants for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that will supplement existing
Embattled Kodak, which stopped manufacturing photographic film last year and filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in January, wants to reinvent itself as a company focused on consumer and commercial printing, rather than on image capturing. To this end, Kodak’s SA operation signed a deal with Incredible Connection
Dimension Data division Internet Solutions and Convergence Partners, the telecommunications investment vehicle controlled by Didata Africa chairman Andile Ngcaba, are jointly establishing a new business, called SpectraCo, with a view to possibly building a national wholesale wireless broadband network
Convergence Partners, a telecommunications investment vehicle controlled by Dimension Data Africa chairman Andile Ngcaba, has secured $35m in equity investment from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) for a new communications infrastructure fund. It will use the fund, which
The opposition Democratic Alliance has slammed cabinet for its decision not to support a proposed plan by Telkom to sell 20% of the company’s equity to Korea’s KT Corp. In a prepared speech that would have been delivered in parliament on Tuesday — it wasn’t given after opposition parties walked out in an
Government’s long-awaited ICT empowerment charter has been published in the Government Gazette, nine years after it was first mooted. The charter is intended to encourage and promote black ownership and participation in the ICT sector. The finalised
The Mvelaphanda Group announced a cash-and-share offer on Tuesday to buy media group Avusa, which publishes the Sunday Times and which owns cinema chain Nu Metro and retailer Exclusive Books. The offer would be made through its wholly-owned subsidiary Richtrau No 229. Mvela currently owns
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has released the latest version of its smartphone operating system in SA. BlackBerry 7.1 is available for the BlackBerry Bold 9900, Torch 9810, Curve 9360 and 9380 smartphones, and the Porsche Design P’9981. The new software includes BlackBerry Tag
