As a journalist, I am au fait with computer keyboards. My fingers glide across the keys as I write, but there are a few buttons that I never touch. These evolutionary leftovers from a previous era of computing seem to offer no purpose today. Granted, these keys don’t appear on all modern keyboards, and regions also differ, but if
Naspers was the darling of the JSE in 2013, contributing a full 4,2% of the total market performance of 18% last year. But we believe that, although it may be a great business, Naspers does not represent a good investment. Investors seem to be pricing the share for perfection, and then some. Eager to gain access to the Chinese market, via
Altron intends hanging tough with subsidiary Altech Autopage. The diversified technology group’s CEO, Robbie Venter, says it has no plans to sell Autopage or its million-strong subscriber base after rival Reunert announced in April that it would sell Nashua Mobile’s base. The decision by Reunert means Autopage will soon be the last
Telkom will consider employment equity in its latest round of planned job cuts, which could affect more than 2 600 management-level employees, a report said on Wednesday. This means that partially state-owned and JSE-listed telecommunications operator “plans to target white, male employees when making job cuts”, according to
If there was any doubt about South Africans’ interest in the results of last week’s election, the traffic numbers from News24 – more than 102 000 concurrent users and 8,5TB of data served in two days – should put that to rest. According to the statistics from website analytics firm Effective Measure, News24, which is ultimately owned
Vodacom, the top-rated company in the Reputation Institute’s annual National RepTrak Pulse survey last year, has fared “particularly poorly” in the 2014 edition of the survey, falling to sixth position and behind rival MTN. The survey found that there has been a “bloodbath” in company reputations, with the exception
The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) has launched a smartphone application to help residents of the city report potholes and faulty traffic lights. The Find & Fix app forms part of the JRA’s turnaround strategy and focus on service delivery. “The organisation is
Altron appears to be firing on all cylinders. The technology group, which owns Altech, Bytes and Powertech, has reported a 49% improvement in normalised headline earnings per share on the back of a 12% improvement in revenue. It has hiked its dividend to 80c/share, from 60c in 2013. The strong performance was underpinned
Cell C CEO Jose Dos Santos sat down with TechCentral on Tuesday to explain why the company cut its prepaid price, on a promotional basis until the end of September, to 66c/minute. But he played down suggestions that South Africa’s mobile operators are engaged
Cell C on Tuesday announced new prepaid call tariff of just 66c/minute on per-second billing and also cut the price of three new contract plans to 79c/minute, all on per-second billing. TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod sat down with the mobile operator’s chief
