Microsoft has missed a self-imposed deadline to launch two Azure cloud data centres in South Africa, one in Johannesburg and the other in Cape Town. But the company has promised they’re coming this year.
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Nigeria is preparing rules that will allow wireless carriers to transfer cash, softening a previous policy that protected the turf of banks in Africa’s most populous country.
MTN Group executives may have expected investors to cut them a little slack after they got potential liabilities of $8.1-billion in Nigeria reduced to $53-million last month. Not so.
Plans to build a superfast submarine broadband cable connecting South Africa and countries in the Middle East, South-Central Asia and Europe, are forging ahead, according to reports.
Eight MTN Group executives netted over 1.3 million shares in the telecommunications giant, valued at R116.9-million at the market price when they were issued at the end of December.
Apple and Samsung announced a deal that only recently would have seemed unthinkable: the iPhone maker will begin offering iTunes movies and TV shows on its arch rival’s TV sets.
China landed a probe on the far side of the moon last Thursday with remarkably little fanfare, yet the feat is one giant leap for a nation that’s long been regarded as an also-ran in the space race.
The pass rate for final-year pupils at public schools in South Africa rose to the highest since 2013, but the real pass rate may be closer to 40%.
Eskom will extend its strategy of trimming top executive positions to include lower ranking managers and finally the general workforce, according to a person familiar with the plans.
It’s wrong to surmise that Apple’s warning about weaker than expected iPhone sales is the beginning of the end of the iconic product, but it is entering a new phase, analysts have said.