Vodacom Group has completed the acquisition of an additional interest in Safaricom, taking majority control.
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Telkom mistook dominance for permanence and lost to mobile; the mobile operators now face the same test.
Takealot is not treating Amazon’s arrival in South Africa as a threat to be survived so much as a contest just getting under way.
Former DA leader Tony Leon has denied his firm improperly lobbied ministers for clients including Elon Musk’s Starlink.
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Following the death last week of Mustek founder and CEO David Kan, the company has appointed long-serving MD Hein Engelbrecht as its interim CEO.
As part of an effort to unlock shareholder value, Datatec is in talks about a potential transaction involving its Analysys Mason subsidiary.
Samsung Group plans to raise spending by more than 30% to ₩450-trillion (about R5.7-trillion) over the next half a decade to 2026.
The City of Johannesburg, facing an energy supply and energy infrastructure crisis, is turning to the private sector for urgent help.
Energy regulator Nersa has approved the first two 100MW private power projects in South Africa, with the two sites expected to come online in about 16 months.
WhatsApp plans to drop support for some older Apple iPhone devices, WABetaInfo reported at the weekend.
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The head of Facebook’s libra project said that it could use cryptocurrencies based on national currencies like the dollar, rather than the synthetic one it initially proposed.
Hikvision warned it may lose customers in overseas markets because of its US blacklisting, underscoring the extent to which curbs on the sale of American technology may hurt the world’s largest video surveillance business.
Mark Hurd, who was CEO of three major technology companies including Oracle, has died. He was 62.
Facebook has a warning for those in Washington determined to derail the company’s plans for creating a cryptocurrency: doing so would be a huge win for China.
At a recent breakfast briefing on cybersecurity hosted by Neotel and the Mail & Guardian, information security consultant Beza Belayneh referred to cybercrime in South Africa as a “crisis”, and called on the government to make it a national security concern. He said the state needs
First it was self-driving cars, then Google Glass, and now with Project Loon, Google is turning its attention to … balloons. The company has begun a pilot project in New Zealand using high-pressure balloons in the stratosphere to provide Internet connectivity “at 3G speeds” and, if it goes well, Google wants to encircle
