A report on Thursday evening that Nigeria is playing hardball with MTN Group sent the wireless carrier’s shares tumbling more than 10% shortly after markets opened in Johannesburg on Friday.
South Africa’s biggest videogaming expo kicked off at the TicketPro Dome in Johannesburg on Friday, and runs until Sunday. TechCentral visited the event. This is a selection of the best photos of what we saw.
This week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg bring you the TalkCentral podcast from the Rage expo taking place in Johannesburg this weekend.
The words bitcoin and boring have rarely been uttered in the same breath. But the cryptocurrency did something strange in recent weeks: it stayed relatively still.
South African Airways has appointed Telkom chief investment officer Deon Fredericks as its new interim chief financial officer on secondment from the telecommunications operator.
Elon Musk has insulted the Securities and Exchange Commission days after settling a fraud lawsuit with the US agency, potentially imperiling a deal that allows him to remain Tesla’s CEO.
The White House national security adviser has said Chinese cyberattacks on the US validate the Donald Trump administration’s emphasis on offensive cyber operations of its own.
Telkom is billing the national police service for two contracts that cover virtually the same work, five people familiar with the situation have said.
Nigeria’s central bank said MTN Group should not be given an injunction that would stop the wireless carrier from having to transfer $8.1-billion back to the West African country.
JSE-listed Net1 UEPS Technologies and QR-code payments specialist Zapper said on Thursday that they will launch a new company, called ZappGroup Africa, to white-label and expand Zapper’s technology across Africa.