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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South Africa is expected to be the fourth fastest-growing major IT market in the world in 2019, according to new research from consultancy Gartner.
South Africa’s annual inflation rate was unchanged at 4.5% in June, staying where the central bank wants the rate anchored.
South Africa may increase its borrowing plans following the latest bailout announced for struggling state-owned power utility Eskom, finance minister Tito Mboweni told MPs on Tuesday.
South Africans have yet another electronic ride-hailing option available to them with the launch of a homegrown e-hailing app called Taxi Live Africa.
The website of the South African Social Security Agency, which is responsible for paying social grants, has been down for days following a hacking incident.
MultiChoice Group’s video-on-demand service, Showmax, has been launched in Nigeria with local content and naira-based pricing.
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Apple could be about to splash as much as US$3,2bn on Beats Electronics, the maker of a range of popular headphones. According to a report in the Financial Times, a deal could be announced as early as next week. But it may be less the headphones than Beats’s new music streaming service that has attracted the interest of Apple
Nigeria plans to double investment in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector from US$25bn to $50bn in the next few years, according to the West African nation’s communication technology minister, Omobola Johnson. Johnson said that her ministry and the Nigerian Communications Commission
Cameroon has offered mobile operator Viettel a year’s monopoly on the operation of the country’s first 3G network. But Viettel is no ordinary operator. It’s owned by the Vietnamese government and operated by its ministry of defence. Readers will recall I wrote about the wholesale network and landing station monopoly enjoyed
Independent mobile infrastructure provider IHS has completed its acquisition of more than 1 200 network towers from MTN. It has bought all of the mobile group’s towers in Zambia and Rwanda. The value of the transaction has not been disclosed. IHS subsidiaries in Zambia and Rwanda acquired ownership and
