Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to the European parliament on Tuesday on the Cambridge Analytica scandal will be broadcast live on the Internet. Zuckerberg agreed to the Web feed after
Sony is done working for peanuts in the hardware business. Kenichiro Yoshida, who took over as CEO in April, is set to unveil a three-year plan on Tuesday that embraces Sony’s growing reliance on income from gaming
Bearish signs are stacking up for South Africa’s rand. Volatility is rising and with it the cost of protecting against a weakening currency, short positioning is soaring and foreigners are fleeing South African bonds at a
In the TalkCentral podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the new cryptocurrency “ATM” installed at Duncan’s local Spar in Johannesburg. Also this week, the latest on the Electronic Communications
BMC Software is working with advisers to weigh a sale, according to people familiar with the matter, five years after Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital took it private in a $6.9bn deal. The IT management provider has drawn
Telkom’s headline and basic earnings per share will decline by between 15% and 25% for the year ended 31 March 2018 as a result of an increased tax bill and higher employee costs, the partially state-owned
Every decade or so, the wireless industry rolls out a new cellular communications standard that can transmit more data more quickly. Already under development is the next round, called “5G” because it’s the fifth
From the spears hurled by Romans to the missiles launched by fighter pilots, the weapons humans use to kill each other have always been subject to improvement. Militaries seek to make each one ever-more lethal and
MTN South Africa plans to deploy 4G/LTE technology in the 900MHz band, sharing the relatively low-frequency spectrum with its 2G, 3G and Internet of things communications technologies
Telecommunications & postal service minister Siyabonga Cwele has promised to listen to the industry’s complaints about the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill and will delay the publication of the next