Uganda’s government is proposing a tax of 100 shillings per day for at least some users of social media such as Facebook and WhatsApp, parliament said, amid criticism from press freedom campaigners
It’s relatively easy these days to find critics of Skype, the popular online calling service that Microsoft acquired in 2011 for US$8.5bn. Former devotees routinely gripe on social media that the software has become
In a submission to communications regulator Icasa on the pay-television market in South Africa, e.tv has warned that free-to-air broadcasting is at serious risk unless regulations are introduced to protect and grow the
The world’s biggest diamond producer says it’s tracked its first diamonds all the way from the mine to jewellery retailers using the technology behind bitcoin. De Beers, which is piloting a scheme using blockchain
ZTE regards the next two weeks as crucial to resolving a US blockade that’s brought its main businesses to a standstill and choked off revenue, signalling the potential collapse of one of the world’s largest makers
China Telecom Global, a subsidiary of China Telecom, one of world’s largest telecommunications operators, will establish two network points of presence in South Africa, one in Cape Town and the other in
On the back of a strong set of financial results for the year ended 28 February 2018, technology group Altron has said it plans to resume dividend payments from its next set of interim results, due after August
MTN Group plans to borrow as much as 400bn naira (US$1.1bn; R13.8bn) in Nigeria this year as Africa’s largest wireless carrier by sales seeks to fund local investment and replace existing debt in the continent’s
Cell C has argued that Netflix and other so-called “over-the-top” services, including its own Black platform, do not pose a significant threat to MultiChoice in the near term. MultiChoice has argued that Netflix and
Africa’s largest company just chalked up another major investment coup. Naspers has netted a cool US$1.6bn profit from the sale of its 11% stake in Indian e-commerce startup Flipkart, a deal almost as lucrative