Netflix has taken a small but significant step with the launch of its first-ever daily highlights show for the Afcon football.
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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.
The Competition Commission has approved a deal that will see Open Access Data Centres expand its local footprint.
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A Naspers shareholders’ meeting is, appropriately enough, more like the annual gathering of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress.
Amid trade tensions between the US, China and Europe, and the UK’s fraught departure from the European Union, African leaders are moving in the opposite direction.
Communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has appointed five new councillors to communications regulator Icasa, returning the former acting chairman, Keabetswe Modimoeng, for a fresh term.
Government has issued a request for proposals to procure 2GW of emergency power, a step needed to help plug a severe energy shortage, the department of energy said on Saturday.
Government Internet agency the ZA Domain Name Authority has appointed Molehe Wesi as its new CEO, replacing Peter Madavhu, who has acted in the role for the past 18 months.
Financially distressed mobile operator Cell C expects to close 128 retail stores around the country, with 546 jobs on the line, as it moves to reduce costs and become a more sustainable business.
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Amazon.com is embracing open-source software in the race to get its voice-based Alexa digital assistant into cars ahead of Google. Amazon engineers are working with Nuance Communications and Voicebox
In four years, Lenovo Group went from would-be Apple challenger to an also-ran in smartphones and data centre servers. Now it’s got a comeback plan, but some investors don’t buy it. China’s erstwhile tech darling
The US’s two biggest mobile network operators, AT&T and Verizon Communications, have conceding that phones won’t be available in time for the launch of fifth-generation mobile service this year, plan instead
Comcast has jumped into the fray for Sky, challenging Rupert Murdoch’s 21 Century Fox and Walt Disney Co with a cash offer valuing the business at £22.1bn and opening the possibility of a bidding contest
The stage is set for a battle of epic proportions at public hearings in Johannesburg next week. That’s when operators will make their arguments for and against proposed cuts in wholesale call termination rates. MTN, for one, has warned of dire consequences for its business and for the entire mobile ecosystem if industry regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), proceeds with its plans to cut wholesale mobile call termination rates to 65c/minute this year. Other operators have also lodged strong objections
Telecommunications group Telkom will leverage its existing customers, offering mobile products to them as it gears up to launch SA’s fourth mobile operator. The company has finally begun to provide some details of its plans in the mobile space, where it is spending R6bn over five years to build a network to rival those operated by Vodacom, MTN
