Rain’s newly launched unlimited mobile plans come with a high-spec handset – and plenty of fine print.
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Capitec’s premium valuation rests on three compounding bets. All three are working – but each is now under pressure.
Revolving-door ministers and ad hoc political interventions left the State IT Agency unable to function.
Google’s research suggests quantum computers could break crypto’s encryption sooner than anyone previously expected.
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It appears Telkom’s apparent willingness to engage with Rain about a possible deal could scupper its merger talks with MTN Group.
Cabinet has approved a new board of directors at Eskom, public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan said on Friday. Here’s the full list.
MTN South Africa plans to install green-energy solutions at its head office as it moves to meet its own net-zero targets by 2040.
Maziv is the new name of the parent company of Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa that will soon, pending regulatory approvals, be 30% owned by Vodacom.
Rain has formally made a non-binding proposal to Telkom that would see the latter acquire the former through the issue of new Telkom shares.
SAP has been ordered to pay a further R81.5-million for its complicity in corruption involving the department of water affairs & sanitation.
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That the US’s biggest companies are technology firms whose businesses stood up to lockdowns has been good news for its stock market. For the Nasdaq 100 Index, it’s been salvation.
Apple and Google have addressed questions about their upcoming Covid-19 smartphone contact-tracing solution, providing details about a partnership that has raised concerns among privacy experts.
Global PC shipments dropped the most since 2013 in the first quarter, after the Covid-19 pandemic ensnared the Chinese supply chain and created production problems for major hardware companies.
Zoom Video Communications will let paying customers decide which countries their virtual meetings get routed through, a move to assuage clients worried they may be vulnerable to Chinese snooping.
Vumatel, the company that recently won the project to deploy fibre-to-the-home broadband in Parkhurst in Johannesburg intends rolling out fibre to as many as 200 000 homes in the next three to four years at a cost of between R2bn and R3bn. The company, which is led by CEO Niel Schoeman
Last week, Vodafone, the world’s second largest mobile operator, made startling revelations about secret wiretaps that allow government agencies to listen into and record live telephone conversations. These revelations come a year after American whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the extent of US and UK
