Vodacom Group CEO Joosub has put a price on the Egyptian venture and says South Africa and Kenya are likely to follow.
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Jacques du Toit steps down after more than a decade in charge, as Vox and Frogfoot close in on their R14.4-billion funding deal.
US senator Kevin Cramer says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang must go as reports link his affair to China chip sales.
Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub says AST SpaceMobile is the likely partner, and that the service won’t work on 2G and 3G phones.
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Netflix has signed a distribution agreement with the Film and Publication Board, meaning the multinational streaming company must now obey local classification rules in the distribution of its content.
Technology group Alviva Holdings reported a slump in earnings for the six months ended 31 December 2019 due to woes in its ICT distribution segment, a change in accounting rules and foreign exchange losses.
South Africa’s plans to procure more electricity-generation capacity will have to wait as long as six months until the regulator has approved a state resource strategy, the nation’s energy department said.
Cosatu expects a plan that it’s proposing to save Eskom from its debt burden to be ready within weeks, said the labour federation’s parliamentary coordinator.
South Africa’s economy slumped into its second recession in consecutive years as power cuts weighed on output and business confidence dropped, adding to pressure on the central bank to cut interest rates.
South African companies have announced plans to cut more than 10 000 jobs less than three months into 2020 with electronics company Ellies the latest to start the process of reducing its headcount
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Samsung’s Galaxy S III is beginning to feel like the next iPhone, at least when it comes to rumours. The latest report pegs the phone with a 4,8-inch screen — 0,2 inches larger than Google’s Galaxy Nexus — and a luxurious ceramic back, sources tell the mobile site Boy Genius Report. The large screen size wouldn’t
Just how much does your smartphone’s camera matter to you? With its latest flagship Android line, dubbed HTC One, Taiwanese phone manufacturer HTC is hoping that a killer camera is just enough to sway you over to its phones. Those killer features include the ability to take video and photos without switching modes
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Apple may be getting ready to ditch the current dock connector used in iPods, iPhones, and iPads in favor of a smaller version, meaning you’ll possibly have to keep up with yet another adapter to use all the latest accessories for iOS devices. Annoyances aside, Apple could have a very practical reason
