Naspers and Prosus chairman Koos Bekker has sold shares in both companies worth about R2.5-billion over three trading days.
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Groupe Canal+ and Warner Bros Discovery have struck a last-minute agreement to keep channels like CNN on DStv.
The rand ended 2025 nearly 13% stronger against the US dollar, marking its biggest annual gain in 16 years.
Louis Gerstner, the former CEO and chairman of IBM, died on Saturday, aged 83.
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Equinix is acquiring Nigerian data centre and submarine cable operator MainOne in a deal that gives MainOne at an enterprise value of $320-million.
Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings has invested in South African digital bank TymeBank.
MTN South Africa chief technology and information officer Giovanni Chiarelli is stepping down after five years. He will leave the group at the end of the month.
Just a week after rival MTN said it would cut international roaming charges for accessing data services abroad, Vodacom has followed suit.
GDP decreased by 1.5% in the third quarter of 2021, providing a direct insight into just how badly July’s looting affected the economy.
Who would have thought the Covid-19 pandemic would present a potential gold mine for companies specialising in the harvesting and selling of data?
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Facebook is suing the Israeli hacker-for-hire company NSO Group for allegedly targeting some 1 400 users of its encrypted messaging service WhatsApp with highly sophisticated spyware.
World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee has warned that the Internet’s power for good is being “subverted” by those spreading hatred and threatening democracy.
Takeaway.com and Prosus haven’t started throwing egg rolls at each other, but they aren’t far off. With shareholders having to choose between two very different deals, the battle is turning ugly.
Investors are getting constant reminders that it’s not cheap for technology giants to stay on top.
Despite its precarious financial situation, South Africa’s fourth mobile operator, Telkom Mobile is in a “prime position” in wireless broadband compared to rivals Vodacom, MTN and Cell C thanks to a huge chunk of radio frequency spectrum it has access to that allows it to build a fast and reliable
Will Vodacom’s proposed acquisition of Neotel pass regulatory muster? That’s the question on everyone’s lips now that the mobile operator has confirmed that it is in exclusive talks with a view to buying its smaller rival, which is majority controlled by India’s Tata Communications
