Africa’s start-ups are seizing an opportunity they say Google and Apple have missed – making apps for non-smartphones. In a region where the average customer doesn’t own a smartphone or a bank card, hundreds of millions
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Apple’s quarterly results were yucky, but less so than everyone anticipated. Investors and Apple watchers have already basically written off this fiscal year ending in September as a revenue black hole. The big question is whether hints
Cell C has warned that the invitation to apply for spectrum, issued earlier this month by communications regulator Icasa, would serve only to entrench the dominance of South Africa’s two largest mobile operators, Vodacom and MTN
South Africa’s communications regulator has defended its move to launch a wireless broadband spectrum auction amid government threatening legal action over the move. Earlier this month, Icasa month invited applicants
Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele must abandon his plan to take legal action to stop communications regulator Icasa from proceeding with a plan to auction off broadband spectrum in South Africa
Porsche will add more than 1 400 new jobs as it revs up development of its first all-electric sports car to challenge Tesla Motors. Some 1 200 jobs alone will be added at facilities in and around its main factory in
Africa has surpassed half a billion unique mobile users, the GSMA, an industry body, said on Tuesday. According to the GSMA’s newly released “The Mobile Economy: Africa 2016” report, the mobile ecosystem added an estimated US$150bn
Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele will institute legal proceedings against communications regulator Icasa to stop the agency from going ahead with a plan to allocate access to radio frequency spectrum for
Telkom is betting its FreeMe packages, announced on Thursday night and available from today (Monday), will shake up the South African mobile market. And, when they’re compared side by side with similar offers from rivals, it’s
A record run of recorded inflows into South African stocks were the result of a programming error, with foreign investors in fact selling more shares than they bought over the period, the country’s stock exchange said. Rather than spending