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MultiChoice and e.tv were locked in a heated battle at the time over encryption in digital terrestrial television.

Netflix is testing new search technology for subscribers that employs AI to help them find TV shows and movies.

MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita said new platform is not designed to be a competitor to services like Netflix.

MTN Group and media firm Synamedia have partnered to develop a pan-African streaming platform.

Spotify’s royalty payments to artists from South African and Nigeria spiked to around R1.1-billion last year.

Google-owned YouTube is hiking the cost of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music in South Africa.

Placing all responsibility for the change in the way people access news exclusively onto Google misses the mark.

A shift in technology, along with a healthy dose of pragmatism and a dash of humility, might just do the trick.

A big dividend cut is coming as MultiChoice warns shareholders that it is struggling in a difficult economy.

Communications minister Solly Malatsi has been ordered not to switch off analogue television broadcasts on 31 March.