In a surprise development, Isaac Mophatlane, CEO of Telkom subisidiary BCX (formerly Business Connexion), has resigned. Mophatlane, the twin brother of late former BCX CEO Benjamin Mophatlane, has led the company
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IBM’s compensation plan for top executives drew record shareholder opposition after the board boosted CEOGinni Rometty’s pay package more than 60% last year. About 46% of the votes cast at the 25 April annual meeting in
Apple has cut off billions of dollars in payments to Qualcomm, turning a contract dispute into what one analyst called an “all-out war” that has forced the chip supplier to slash forecasts given only days ago. The world’s largest publicly
In the latest episode of TalkCentral, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg ask whether ADSL is dying. Also this week, MTN achieves 400Mbit/s over LTE, rumours about the next iPhone, Jeff Bezos may soon be the world’s richest man and the Nasdaq cracks
Satya Nadella’s plan to reshape Microsoft as a cloud computing company hit a snag in the third quarter, when lacklustre sales of Surface tablets and weaker demand for corporate software support services kept revenue growth in check. Adjusted sales
After struggling for years to wring profit from the mobile boom, Google is benefiting from a surge in clicks on ads on smartphones. Capitalising on consumers’ shift toward handsets and away from
A surge in after-hours trading for Amazon.com added US$3,3bn to the fortune of Jeff Bezos, putting him less than $5bn away from becoming the world’s richest person. Bezos saw his fortune surpass $80bn for the first time
Ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing raised more than $5,5bn from investors, scoring the single largest round of funding on record to bankroll an expansion beyond China and into driver-less technology. Didi disclosed the financing in an
In this TechCentral podcast interview, Duncan McLeod chats to South African Internet pioneer, movie maker, investor and entrepreneur Ronnie Apteker about the (excellent) new South African film Beyond the River, which he helped produce. In a
The idea is certainly audacious: thwart traffic in congested cities by flying over it. Quick, quiet, clean, cheap. This concept – which requires a new type of battery-powered vertical takeoff and landing vehicle