The Competition Commission has approved a deal that will see Open Access Data Centres expand its local footprint.
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Louis Gerstner, the former CEO and chairman of IBM, died on Saturday, aged 83.
Naspers and Prosus chairman Koos Bekker has sold shares in both companies worth about R2.5-billion over three trading days.
The Competition Tribunal has approved the sale of Herotel to Vumatel, but subject to an extensive set of conditions.
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Winter may be officially over, but that’s not going to stop Eskom from implementing rotational electricity blackouts this Spring Day.
Samsung Electronics’ latest foldable smartphone is also its largest, offering users a tablet-size screen 12% bigger than its first Galaxy Fold. But be prepared to pay big money to own one.
President Cyril Ramaphosa approved a small salary increment for councillors at communications regulator Icasa. The new remuneration levels are retrospective with effect from 1 April 2019.
Cisco Systems GM for sub-Saharan Africa Clayton Naidoo will join Liquid Telecom as group chief business officer, where he will be responsible for driving growth, innovation and strategy in the enterprise market.
Apple has terminated Fortnite creator Epic Games’ account on its App Store amid a legal battle over the iPhone maker’s in-app payment guidelines and accusations they constitute a monopoly.
President Cyril Ramaphosa is considering making changes to his cabinet after he meets the ruling party’s leadership this weekend, people familiar with the deliberations said.
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Apple said it is acquiring Texture, a digital magazine service that lets users subscribe to more than 200 magazines for US$9.99/month. Texture, offered via the app stores of Apple, Google and Amazon.com, bolsters
Spotify Technology plans to list shares on the New York Stock Exchange the week of 2 April, according to people with knowledge of the matter, giving the company weeks to prepare for an unconventional debut
Intel is considering a bid for Broadcom as part of a range of acquisition alternatives in reaction to the Singapore-based chip maker’s bid for US rival Qualcomm, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with
Spring has sprung for tech stocks. The Nasdaq Composite Index rallied to a fresh record on Friday, capping an 11% gain since its 8 February low as investors poured back into the nine-year old bull market’s biggest winners
Jean-Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft International, was in SA last week to meet with the software company’s customers and to attend the soccer World Cup final in Johannesburg. TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod sat down with Courtois, who is responsible for all of Microsoft’s operations outside the US, for an exclusive media interview and asked him about life at the company after the departure of Bill Gates, cloud computing and the plans for its Bing search engine.
Brazil has set aside money and expertise to help SA if it ditches its commitment to the European standard for digital terrestrial television and stumps for the standard used in the South American country instead. Andre Barbosa Filho, special advisor to the presidency of Brazil, says that if SA decides to adopt Brazil’s integrated service digital broadcasting terrestrial (ISDB-Tb) standard, it will bring in people to discuss joint ventures for the manufacturing of television sets, mobile television handsets and digital set-top boxes.
