On TalkCentral this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about Telkom’s new LIT zero-rated music and video streaming plans and what they mean for the market. Also this week, HTC is on the chopping
History was made in a Seoul court on Friday when Jay Y Lee, scion of the family that founded the giant Samsung conglomerate, was convicted on bribery and embezzlement charges and sentenced to five years in prison
Chairman Koos Bekker countered criticism that Naspers relies too heavily on its $132bn stake in Chinese media company Tencent by reminding investors that they would have been a lot poorer if he’d given in to similar pressure
Jay Y Lee, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, has been convicted of bribery and sentenced to five years in prison, a blow to the heir apparent of the world’s biggest maker of smartphones and memory chips. A three-judge
HTC is exploring its options. That’s exactly what the former smartphone high flyer should be doing. An adviser has been engaged and the Taiwan manufacturer is considering bringing in a strategic investor. A full or partial
Apple is planning to unveil a renewed focus on the living room with an upgraded Apple TV set-top box that can stream 4K video and highlight live television content such as news and sports, according to people familiar with the matter
Telkom has taken the wraps of LIT, offering consumers zero-rated access to a large range of popular video and audio streaming services, including Netflix and Showmax. The new service, available to Telkom FreeMe mobile
The revelation on Wednesday that finance minister Malusi Gigaba is considering selling a big chunk or possibly even all of government’s 39.3% in Telkom, at face value, is fantastic news. There is absolutely no reason for government
African Rainbow Capital’s banking partner is close to getting a licence that it wants to use to challenge the dominance of South Africa’s biggest lenders. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has said it will sell 10% of Tyme
Bell Pottinger has been found guilty by the UK public relations industry body for breaching its code over work done for South Africa’s Gupta family that led to protests outside the company’s London offices, according to