MultiChoice has upgraded its DStv Now streaming service, ditching Adobe Flash in favour of HTML5, while also updating its SuperSport iOS and Android app to allow for a picture-in-picture mode
Cairo has this year surpassed South Africa’s business hub, Johannesburg, as being Internet ride-sharing service Uber’s biggest and busiest African city. This is according to Uber’s head of operations for Europe, Middle
Two years ago, Oppo and Vivo couldn’t crack the top five in China’s smartphone market. Now they outrank everyone after elbowing Apple aside, thanks to people like Cheng Xiaoning. Cheng runs a thriving electronics store in the rural town of Miaoxia, tapping into her
South African policy makers will probably leave interest rates steady on Thursday without calling an end to the rate-hike cycle as uncertainty from Donald Trump’s election as US president to local political turmoil keeps the rand volatile. Inflation that’s slowed from a peak of 7% in
The State IT Agency has finally explained why it pulled the plug on a government tender, worth up to R1,5bn, to roll out broadband to underserviced parts of the country: none of the bidders qualified. The tender was the first phase of a network
MTN has raised R1,1bn through the public offer for its new black economic empowerment scheme, Zakhele Futhi, well short of the target of R2,5bn, but sufficient to allow the transaction to proceed. The telecommunications group
The rand extended gains, strengthening the most among global currencies after the South African government said it would delay a plan to build new nuclear power plants, allaying concern that the cost of the program would strain
Telkom says its mobile business has been boosted by the launch in July of its FreeMe bundles built around data (not voice minutes) which largely upended the market. It achieved profitability in that unit for the first time
South Africa’s jobless rate rose to the highest in over a decade in the third quarter as more people started looking for employment. The jobless rate rose to 27,1% in the quarter through September, from 26,6% in the previous three
National fibre operator FibreCo Telecommunications has poached Broadband Infraco’s Sammy Mafu as its new business development executive. Mafu, who was chief marketing and sales officer at the state-owned