BlackBerry managed to ship a million of its new BlackBerry 10-powered Z10 handsets last quarter, despite only having a month of the quarter to do so. However, the company also lost three million customers during the period, a trend it will want to arrest as it tries to keep its remaining 76m users loyal to the brand
When TopTV announced it was planning a fresh bid to screen adult content, a number of the self-appointed guardians of South Africa’s moral fibre rushed to our aid. The usual suspects (African Christian Action, the Family Policy Institute) spoke of the “flood of filth” that would destroy our families, corrupt our children
It’s not going to be a good Easter weekend for the thousands employees of JSE-listed services group Gijima, which announced shortly before markets closed on Thursday that it was embarking on a rights offer in an effort to avert financial disaster. The company, which is chaired
There was a tight race between Sipho Maseko and Brian Armstrong for Telkom’s top job, a source claiming to have knowledge of the appointment process has told TechCentral. Telkom confirmed the news of Maseko’s appointment as its new group CEO in a statement to shareholders after TechCentral broke
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A court ruling confirming the validity of a tender given to Net1 UEPS Technologies subsidiary Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) for issuing social grants was welcomed by the social development ministry on Thursday. “It has been a long journey through which several
By May this year, Eskom will have paid businesses at least R2,9bn to cut back on power usage in a bid to prevent blackouts. Had the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) not rejected its request for provision to be made for an R8bn, five-year buy-back project, the amount, over a seven-year period, would
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered fruit juice company Liqui-Fruit to withdraw an advertising campaign for its blackberry fruit juice after the regulatory body upheld objections from the South African arm of mobile device company BlackBerry that the ads made misleading claims, exploited the
Nhlanhla Gasa, the lead independent nonexecutive director of JSE-listed technology company DigiCore Holdings, has been murdered in KwaZulu-Natal. His body was found in the Tugela River, near Newark, and had multiple stab wounds, according to a report on Talk Radio 702. His burnt-out car was found nearby
It is extremely unlikely, although not impossible, that saboteurs were responsible for the cut in Seacom and other undersea cables north of Egypt last Friday, Seacom CEO Mark Simpson says. Simpson’s comments come after news on Thursday morning that Egyptian authorities had arrested three divers off the
