After a rocky start, commercial free-to-air satellite broadcaster OpenView HD, a sister company of e.tv, is adding subscribers at a remarkable rate of knots, though revenues are proving elusive. Listed parent company eMedia Holdings revealed in its annual results
MTN interim executive chairman Phuthuma Nhleko has defended the R23,7m golden handshake given to former CEO Sifiso Dabengwa, who resigned in November 2015 following a US$5,2bn fine
Eskom is progressing well with the maintenance of its power generation plant, it said on Wednesday, adding that no load shedding has been implemented for over nine months. Energy availability is continuing to improve and now
The ongoing exposé of the Panama Papers is the most significant leak of compromising data since Edward Snowden’s revelations about America’s National Security Agency. What few people realise is the vital role played by African journalists
MTN Group said on Wednesday that it will appoint a new CEO by the end of June “at the latest”. In a note to shareholders ahead of the group’s AGM, MTN said the search for a new CEO was “well under way”. Former MTN CEO Phuthuma Nhleko
The much anticipated return of Top Gear to the BBC raises a big broadcasting question: is the post-Jeremy Clarkson version doomed to fail or will it help sustain the brand’s success? The stakes are high for the corporation. Top Gear is widely
Three hours, around 100 people, 1 400 Japanese ATMs and 1 600 counterfeit credit cards, was all it took for fraudsters to exploit Standard Bank in Japan. The bank, which stands to lose up to R300m, described the attack as a “sophisticated
MPs and ministers paid tribute to the late Dene Smuts on Tuesday. The former DA MP, known for being the first female whip in the national assembly, died last month. Smuts, who was a former shadow minister of communications, served in parliament
Competition has broken out among telecommunications operators in South Africa as a result of an open-access policy intervention, being the prices which operators pay to access customers on other networks: the call termination rate. Prepaid mobile voice
Windows now has less than 1% of the worldwide smartphone market, according to new research, again calling into question whether the Microsoft platform can survive – and whether it matters if it doesn’t. According to new research
