MTN group executive for corporate affairs Chris Maroleng soon will be named to the key position of chief operating officer of the SABC. Sunday World reported that Maroleng would take fill the position, replacing the controversial
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday night that while Jacob Zuma’s government must obey the decisions of the party, he doesn’t want to “humiliate” the president and divide the nation. Ramaphosa, speaking in a
Recent revelations that millions of Intel’s chips carry a security flaw is putting a deeper strain on the company’s decades-long partnership with Microsoft. Dubbed Wintel, the two technology giants worked hand in hand for much
In the first episode of TalkCentral for 2018, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about MTN’s 5G trial. Also this week, they discuss the best and worst performing tech shares on the JSE and the chip security debacle. And HTC
Eskom, which generates almost all of South Africa’s electricity, is still studying the impact of a tariff increase that was about a quarter of what it requested as shrinking liquidity threatens the utility. An award by the state energy regulator
John Kotsaftis, the founder and CEO of Showmax, has quit the video-on-demand streaming service provider owned by Naspers to join Fox Networks Group Asia, based in Singapore, where he will lead the development of subscription VOD
Chinese smartphone maker ZTE aims to launch a smartphone with faster 5G Internet capabilities in about a year, according to Lixin Cheng, CEO of the company’s US division. The device would be introduced in the US at the end of
Facebook is making major changes to its flagship social network, shifting users’ news feeds back toward posts from friends and family and away from businesses and media outlets – a transition that is likely to mean people spend
Chinese electronics giant Huawei is ramping up its investment in South Africa, creating a new campus consisting of 18 buildings in Johannesburg to house its various operations in the country. The company told TechCentral this week that it has already
Intel, trying to defuse concern that fixes to widespread chip security vulnerabilities will slow computers, released test results late on Wednesday showing that PCs won’t be affected much and promised more information on servers