Huawei has rubbished a claim it owes R22m to Fantastic 1 Mobile, with which it partnered in 2016 to open Huawei-branded retail stores across South Africa, saying there is “no basis” to the company’s claim. The stores were
Bitcoin has wowed markets this year with breakneck gains as investors flocked to an asset that exists only in cyberspace. But the laborious creation of each digital bitcoin by private computer networks has real-world consequences
Matshela Koko was reinstated by the board of Eskom to his role as acting CEO, on Friday morning. Previously the head of generation at the state utility, he was suspended and subject to an internal probe relating to the company’s
The US Federal Communications Commission has swept aside rules barring broadband providers from favouring the Internet traffic of websites willing to pay for speedier service, sending the future of net neutrality on to a likely court challenge
Five Huawei-branded stores have been closed after an ugly dispute over non-payment allegedly amounting to millions of rand to a local partner of the Chinese consumer electronics giant. Nisaar Ally, owner of Fantastic 1 Mobile, which
South Africa is seeking to raise as much as R4bn from the sale of part of its 39% stake in Telkom to raise funds for the country’s unprofitable state airline and post office, according to two people familiar with the
In the penultimate episode of TalkCentral for 2017, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg delve into the week’s big technology news, including Amazon Web Services’ deal with Teraco. Also this week, they look at Asher Bohbot’s
In this episode, Duncan McLeod interviews Sonny Fisher, founder of the Forus Holdings, a company that hopes to reinvent the financial services industry using blockchain technology. The Forus Global Digital Exchange (Forus is pronounced
Walt Disney Co has agreed to a $52.4bn deal to acquire much of the global empire that media baron Rupert Murdoch assembled over three decades, from a fabled Hollywood studio to Europe’s largest satellite-TV provider to
Almost a quarter of a century after Nelson Mandela led the ANC to power at the end of apartheid and the world heralded the birth of the “rainbow nation”, South Africa stands at a crossroads. As delegates of the ANC meet this weekend