Vodacom is automatically refunding customers with airtime and data bundles after a glitch on Monday night caused many prepaid and top-up customers to lose data. By late on Tuesday morning, most affected affected
More than 87% of all smartphones sold in the second quarter of 2017 shipped with Google’s Android operating system, with Apple’s iOS – the operating system used on iPhones – the only other platform to feature, with 12.1% market share
MultiChoice has announced it will rename its DStv Extra bouquet of satellite television channels. Effective immediately, the bouquet will be known as DStv Compact Plus. The plan costs R489/month, and is placed between the
Lenovo Group, which breathed new life into IBM’s PC business, bet that it could do the same with mobile phones and data centres. Now, it’s beginning to look like that gamble is dragging the Chinese manufacturer in the wrong
In 2015, in one of the biggest corporate breakups in Silicon Valley’s history, the roughly 75-year old Hewlett-Packard cleaved itself in half. Hewlett Packard Enterprise, or HPE, would handle data centres, software and services
Some of the most popular industrial and consumer robots are dangerously easy to hack and could be turned into bugging devices or weapons, IOActive said. The Seattle-based cybersecurity firm found major security
The big news of the day is that Mzwanele (Jimmy) Manyi has bought ANN7 and The New Age from the Guptas for a total consideration of R450m. Predictably, there has been an eruption of cynical comments and probing questions
Naspers shareholder Allan Gray plans to vote against the remuneration policy of Africa’s biggest company because it isn’t aligned to the performance of the business outside a stake in Chinese media giant Tencent. Naspers
GreenWish Partners, a renewable energy company run by a former Morgan Stanley executive, is planning to invest US$800m (about R10.5bn) on solar-powered telecommunications towers across Africa. The project could fuel
Think billionaires and outer space and three names quickly come to mind: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. It turns out, though, that they have plenty of company. There are 13 others among the world’s 500