Home affairs minister Malusi Gigaba says the new automated biometric identification system (Abis) project will help integrate all systems, inside and outside government, to offer a single source for biometric
Tencent Holdings surged after delivering record profit that topped analyst estimates, calming investors who’d braced for a big hit to margins. The stock climbed as much as 7.1% in Hong Kong, its biggest
One of the world’s largest telecommunications operators, New York-headquartered Verizon Communications, will back a new 5G network to be deployed in South Africa by local telecommunications company Comsol
Speculation is growing that Vodacom is poised to buy 49% of fibre-to-the-home provider Vumatel. Industry talk is that Dark Fibre Africa, in a deal possibly facilitated through its largest shareholder, Remgro
Microsoft is planning to release a line of lower-cost Surface tablets as soon as the second half of 2018, seeking a hit in a market for cheaper devices that Apple dominates with the iPad, according to people familiar
Institutional investors haven’t been this sceptical about Apple since at least the financial crisis. They reduced their holdings in the iPhone maker by about 153m shares in the first three months of the year, an analysis
Tencent Holdings, in which JSE-listed Naspers holds a 31.2% stake, posted first-quarter profit that blew past analysts’ estimates, bolstered by mobile game blockbusters like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
First National Bank said on Wednesday that it is introducing new functionality its smartphone banking app that will allow consumers to sign up for a bank account by taking a “selfie” in an entirely paperless process
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, MultiChoice South Africa CEO Calvo Mawela returns to the show to discuss communications regulator Icasa’s inquiry into the pay-television industry and the future of the
MultiChoice South Africa will launch a streaming-only version of DStv, its CEO, Calvo Mawela, said in a podcast interview with TechCentral on Monday. Though the streaming product is unlikely to debut in 2018