The CSIR’s National Laser Centre has created what it calls the world’s first digital laser. South African scientists working at the centre have created a means of controlling a laser beam’s shape digitally and they claim the implications for health care, manufacturing, communications and other industries

The market capitalisation of Tencent has rocketed through US$100bn for the first time, helping lift the share price of South Africa’s Naspers, which holds a one-third stake in the fast-growing Chinese Internet company, nearer to the R1 000/share level. In trading in Hong Kong on Tuesday

South Africa’s young yet lively venture capital ecosystem is building momentum, with the increased availability of funding mechanisms for innovation being one important driver of this growth. Practitioners in the industry point out that successful venture capital-backed businesses rely on far more

Having kick-started the only real price war in the South African cellular market, the “little network that could”, Cell C, is in a tough place. Alan Knott-Craig’s Hail Mary pass to capture his stated intention of 25% of the market appears to be working – at MTN’s expense – for the time being. The recent results from

Times Media Group (formerly Avusa) has acquired a 32,3% stake in Ghana’s Multimedia Group for R144m. Multimedia Group is a radio and television business and is the largest independent media company in Ghana, the JSE-listed Times Media, which owns the Sunday Times and Business Day newspapers

Telkom is removing the enormous pink ball from Johannesburg’s landmark Hillbrow Tower. Although the telecommunications operator is only obliged to remove the fibreglass structure at the end of the year, it’s doing so now before Johannesburg’s summer thunderstorms render the removal

Telecommunications regulator Icasa has introduced tougher penalties in new regulations dealing with “type approvals” of communications equipment, making provision for fines of up to R1m and prison sentences of six months for infringers. Under the new type approval

The top end of the smartphone market is well served with Lumia devices and the bottom end has the sub-R2 000 Lumia 520. But the midrange hasn’t had an update since 2012’s 620. Enter the Lumia 625, which, despite its similar name, is a wholly different device

MTN South Africa on Monday issued an ambiguous statement saying it was cutting the cost of international telephone calls to “as little as 75c/minute” to a number of markets across Africa, including Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Mozambique, Lesotho and Swaziland. It’s been widely reported

The labour court has instructed the SABC to allow former editor Montlenyane Diphoko to return to work, his attorney said on Monday. “The court has upheld the findings of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) last year, and instructed the SABC to allow my client