South Africa’s big four retail banks have been steadily cutting the number of (costly) branches in recent years. That’s no surprise, given the shift in transactional banking to electronic channels. Those transactions that still need some form of physical
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PC shipments in Africa and the Middle East fell by 28,7% year on year in the fourth quarter of 2015, the steepest ever recorded in the region for a single quarter, technology research and consulting firm International Data Corp said on Tuesday
Dimension Data sister company, NTT Data, is acquiring the IT services subsidiary of American technology giant Dell for US$3,1bn, or about R48bn at the current exchange rate. Dell is selling Dell Services – the former Perot Systems, which it bought
South Africa’s telecommunications industry is on the cusp of its next wave of growth, thanks to the growing uptake by businesses and consumers of bandwidth-intensive applications such as cloud services and Internet streaming. Fast-changing user behaviour
While there’s been an outsize (and bizarre) outcry about First National Bank’s decision to close somewhere between 25 and 40 branches in a round of “optimisation”, the country’s big four retail banks have been steadily cutting the number of branches for years
Concerns are growing in the telecommunications industry that government plans to abandon the nearly universal model of auctioning off precious radio frequency spectrum to private-sector operators, instead allocating it to a single wholesale provider in which
The launch this week of a smaller iPhone and a new iPad “underlines the extent to which Apple has lost the innovative edge”, according to a senior technology analyst. The new 4-inch iPhone SE, in particular, showed that Apple had lost the innovative
MTN on Thursday advised shareholders not to make decisions based on press reports after the telecommunications group’s shares were knocked down by more than 10% on speculation that its fine in Nigeria could be hiked to R240bn. The shares were also knocked
When you mention virtual reality (VR), most people’s thoughts turn to videogames. Indeed, Sony has just announced its new Playstation VR headset. But VR isn’t just about gaming. There are many other interesting and exciting uses for it. Education
Cell C’s empowerment partner CellSAf, which holds a quarter of the mobile operator’s equity, has decided to challenge a multibillion-rand restructuring…