Wireless Business Solutions (WBS), the holding company of iBurst and Broadlink acquired in 2015 by the Michael Jordaan- and Paul Harris-backed firm Multisource, has been rebranded as Rain. The company, which is building
Broadlink and iBurst parent Wireless Business Solutions is now called Rain. Its CEO, Duncan Simpson-Craib, sat down with TechCentral on Tuesday to talk about the name change. Also in the podcast, Simpson-Craib goes into
Datatec shares jumped by the most on record after the South African IT services company agreed to sell the North and Latin American operations of its Westcon-Comstor business for as much as $800m
Naspers investment Delivery Hero, a Berlin-based food takeout business backed by Germany’s Rocket Internet, announced plans to list on the Frankfurt stock exchange in the next few months to fund expansion in an increasingly
South Africa’s economy fell into a recession for the first time since 2009 after it contracted for a second straight quarter in the first three months of the year. GDP shrank an annualised 0,7% in the first quarter
It is supremely odd that the technology industry’s most revered gadget maker, Apple, responded on Monday to a tech device first introduced by a relative gadget lightweight, Amazon. This state of affairs would have seemed
Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company has helped UK officials investigate terror attacks, while reiterating his dismay over US plans to quit the Paris agreement on climate change
The idea of taxing cross-border remittances has been raised in some countries recently, especially in the Middle East. Although this is not a South African conversation – not yet, anyway – it has been highlighted elsewhere as a way for governments
Cape Town, in the grips of the worst drought on record, is bracing itself for the biggest storm in 30 years, with the authorities ordering all schools to shut on Wednesday and advising residents to stay off the roads. The storm, which is expected to hit South
Datatec said on Tuesday that it has reached an agreement to sell subsidiary Westcon-Comstor’s operations in North America and Latin America for up to US$800m and 10% of Westcon-Comstor for $30m to US-listed IT supply











