Charges of attempted bribery instituted against Pinnacle Holdings director Takalani Tshivhase have been dropped by the specialised commercial crimes unit of the national directorate of public prosecutions. The news has sent Pinnacle’s share price surging by more than 35%. Tshivhase, who was

Earlier this week, Old Mutual in Namibia unveiled a deal with Tranwall of Hong Kong to implement South African-developed “transaction control” technology on the OMcard, a prepaid Visa card that was developed specifically for Old Mutual customers in that country. The technology behind

Sekunjalo Investment Holdings has made a bid to acquire the news agency operations of the South African Press Association (Sapa) in order to form a new company with participation by other media houses, its chairman announced on Monday. “We intend to take Sapa into territory

DStv parent MultiChoice has taken the wraps off a new, low-cost decoder meant to get high-definition (HD) content into more homes. The company has announced its first HD single-view decoder, the DStv HD Decoder, which offers HD and Dolby Digital

In June 2013, at a University of Southern California event with George Lucas, Steven Spielberg predicted an implosion of the film industry. The failure at the box office of “tentpoles”, mega-budget movies that are designed with potential sequels in mind and anchor a studio’s release

For more than a century, science-fiction writers have been dreaming of robots intelligent and adaptable enough to pass as human. And the mechanical creatures that inhabit books and movies may finally become reality — and within our lifetimes. This isn’t a result of a single massive

Expect high drama in South Africa’s mobile industry in coming weeks as Icasa readies new regulations governing call termination rates. What the communications regulator decides will have a big impact not only on the financial health of the

The supreme court of appeal is expected to hear an appeal by billionaire businessman Mark Shuttleworth against a R250m levy imposed by the South African Reserve Bank, the Sunday Independent reported. Shuttleworth would on Thursday argue against the decision by

A dispute over an empowerment deal that has soured could cost South Africa a massive boost to the local set-top box manufacturing sector. At the heart of the dispute is the relationship that the National Association of Manufacturers in Electronic Components, an industry body for

Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg get stuck into the week’s biggest technology news. In the show this week, they discuss the looming job cuts at MTN South Africa and look at Telkom’s cut to wholesale broadband