The alliance banking deal lets South Africa’s biggest retailer expand its financial services without becoming a bank.
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MTN says it and Cell C have not agreed on certain terms of their commercial relationship.
ACT’s Nomvuyiso Batyi explains why South Africa’s telcos won’t back Icasa’s biometric Sim rules as drafted.
A new chief digital officer and strategy head complete six senior appointments at the troubled State IT Agency this financial year.
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Telkom plans to raise R1-billion by the end of its financial year through the sale to external financial institutions of “qualifying receivables” related to upfront device sales.
MultiChoice Group plans to offer the Rugby World Cup to subscribers in up to 4K resolution following its successful broadcast and streaming of the soccer World Cup in 4K.
MultiChoice Group will again hike prices at below the rate of consumer inflation for its satellite subscription services this year, while keeping the price of its streaming packages unchanged.
EOH Holdings CEO Stephen van Coller has described the successful conclusion of the IT services group’s rights issue as a “watershed moment” that closes a “long and difficult chapter”.
South African e-mail and domain security start-up Sendmarc has raised the equivalent of R125-million in a series-A fundraising round led by Atlantica Ventures.
Openserve, the wholesale infrastructure subsidiary of Telkom, said on Monday that it will significantly boost line speeds across its fibre network from 1 April.
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Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu said he’s aware of the potential for the US to tighten restrictions on the company. China wouldn’t tolerate such action and it would irrevocably damage the global supply chain.
Zoom Video Communications was sued by a user who claims the popular video-conferencing service is illegally disclosing personal information.
With its 175-acre campus in Cupertino, California, and several dozen more offices across the rest of the world, Apple wasn’t designed as a work-at-home company. That all changed about three weeks ago.
Having our normal daily lives upended by the coronavirus has heightened the demand for entertainment – and not just Netflix. “The virus is forcing us to use the Internet as it was always meant to be used.”
The “last mile” fixed-line infrastructure into people homes in South Africa is “awful” and is holding back competition in South Africa’s television broadcasting industry by preventing Internet protocol television and video-on-demand players from launching services
Apple could be about to splash as much as US$3,2bn on Beats Electronics, the maker of a range of popular headphones. According to a report in the Financial Times, a deal could be announced as early as next week. But it may be less the headphones than Beats’s new music streaming service that has attracted the interest of Apple
