The alliance banking deal lets South Africa’s biggest retailer expand its financial services without becoming a bank.
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MTN says it and Cell C have not agreed on certain terms of their commercial relationship.
ACT’s Nomvuyiso Batyi explains why South Africa’s telcos won’t back Icasa’s biometric Sim rules as drafted.
A new chief digital officer and strategy head complete six senior appointments at the troubled State IT Agency this financial year.
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Dimension Data said on Thursday that it has acquired Acacia Cloud Solutions, a cloud implementation specialist that works closely with Amazon Web Services.
Mastercard will invest $100-million in Airtel Africa’s mobile money operations, valuing the business at $2.65-billion, the London-listed company said on Thursday.
The department of communications & digital technologies will conduct public hearings into the draft white paper on audiovisual content services policy framework in April.
Eskom said on Wednesday that it has added up to 800MW of supply to the national grid after unit 3 at the Kusile power station was brought online this week.
In January, Eskom filed a contentious tariff proposal. In it were a number of proposed changes that will have wide ramifications for all users of electricity, even if they are not directly supplied by Eskom.
National treasury has published a new five-year contract for the supply of “transversal” telecommunications services to government entities worth billions of rand to service providers.
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Facebook’s social network now has two billion monthly active users – about a quarter of the world’s population and more than half of the people on the Internet. It’s the first social network to connect that many people. Google’s YouTube
A new cyberattack similar to WannaCry is spreading across Europe, hitting major companies from Rosneft in Moscow to AP Moller-Maersk in Copenhagen while disrupting government systems in Kiev. More than 80 companies in Russia and Ukraine
Google lost its biggest regulatory battle yet, getting a record €2.4bn fine from European Union enforcers who say the search-engine giant skewed results in its favour to thwart smaller shopping search services. Google has 90 days to “stop its
Bitcoin declined as much as 17% on Monday, while smaller competitor ether continued to slide after experiencing a “flash crash” last week, raising concern about mainstream acceptance of the digital currencies. Bitcoin slumped to as low
