US-based technology firm Novatel is offering shareholders of JSE-listed DigiCore Holdings R4,40/share, or R1,1bn in total, to buy the business. This offer has sent Digicore’s share price up by more than 15% in morning trade on Friday. The R4,40 offer is
Since announcing on Monday that it had decided to approve Vodacom’s R7bn acquisition of Neotel, communications regulator Icasa has gone to ground, not revealing – as it had promised to
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Billionaire Mark Shuttleworth has lost a battle in the constitutional court with the South African Reserve Bank over a R250,5m levy dispute. Last year, the supreme court of appeal
Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn wants cabinet to “review and reverse” the broadcasting digital migration policy it adopted in March to “break the legal logjam that is crippling South Africa’s migration to digital broadcasting”. Her remarks
Residents of the prominent Johannesburg suburb of Blairgowrie have voted overwhelmingly in favour of telecommunications start-up Vumatel rolling out fibre-to-the-home broadband in
Telkom and Cell C offer the best-value contract packages for consumers, Tariffic’s latest quarterly tracker shows. The company’s second “Perfect Package Tracker” of 2015 measures the real effects of price and package changes in South Africa’s post-paid
Jurassic World is shaping up to be a monster success, to say the least. The fourth instalment in the Jurassic Park series has become the first film to take more than US$500m in its first
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More than a decade after South Africa started preparing to switch off analogue terrestrial television, the deadline government agreed to with other nations to end the broadcasts has not been met. This Wednesday, 17 June, marks the date that
