Standard Bank has acquired a majority stake in Firepay, the company that develops popular mobile payments platform SnapScan. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Firepay launched SnapScan in partnership with Standard Bank

Microsoft and national treasury, through the State IT Agency, have reached a new deal that government said will result in the “optimisation of Microsoft products and services within all spheres of government”. This is after the parties initiated

On TalkCentral this week, the SABC is behaving badly – very badly. Also this week, the “please call me” settlement talks break down, MTN names a new group chief operating officer, speculation about Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and Vodacom’s uncapped

Once upon a time, there was a lot of optimism that the blockchain – the technology underlying bitcoin – would help the finance industry deal with a big headache: post-trade processing, the often long and arduous task of making sure

Former SABC acting CEO Phil Molefe has given explosive testimony at parliament’s SABC inquiry, saying Hlaudi Motsoeneng threatened to “go to Pretoria” after he refused to give him a R500 000 increase. Molefe was testifying under oath before

Former SABC CEO Lulama Mokhobo received threats before giving testimony at parliament’s ad hoc committee looking into the public broadcaster’s board, she has said. During her hour-long testimony on Thursday, she indicated that

Outstanding e-toll debt has begun to prescribe as three years have passed since the controversial system became operational, roads agency Sanral has confirmed. This means that unless road users were summonsed or formally

Former Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni lost R5 000 in an ATM scam at a petrol station in Midrand on Thursday afternoon. He recounted the incident on his Twitter account. “Just been

President Jacob Zuma has warded off calls to resign over the scandals that have marred his administration and spread dissent in the ruling party largely thanks to a bloc of politicians known as the “premier league” that has his back. With urban voters deserting

BlackBerry has rebranded the software products it acquired over the last three years, tying them together into a single system it hopes will be the go-to platform companies and governments use to protect their electronic devices