Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod is joined by Larry Schwartz, the CEO of US-based Seaborn Networks, the company that plans to build a new, high-capacity
Angola Cables has announced plans for a point of presence in Cape Town, its second in the country after Johannesburg, as the company gets ready to serve the market with the new South Atlantic Cable System
Snap still isn’t meeting much-lowered projections for growth. Now the company is taking drastic measures to shape its future. While ad prices fell as part of a transition in the company’s sales system, the larger
Bye Twitter brevity. Twitter said on Tuesday that users can send tweets with as many as 280 characters, double the current limit, the latest attempt by the social media company to revive user growth. The roll-out
Vodacom and networking equipment supplier Nokia will trial 5G technology in South Africa, the two companies said on Tuesday. Working with Vodacom in a series of workshops and trials, Nokia test how 5G
Finance minister Malusi Gigaba met with representatives of the World Bank last week to discuss financing for development of a nuclear power programme in the country, according to two people familiar with
As news emerged this week on a new submarine cable system that will connect South Africa and Brazil, another major project – the South Atlantic Cable System (Sacs) – is nearing completion. The Sacs cable, a project
I try not to give billionaires or corporate managers unsolicited advice on what they should do with their money. Warren Buffett and Apple both have done rather well for themselves and their investors without
French telecommunications giant Orange has launched two new points of presence in South Africa, one in Johannesburg and the other in Cape Town. The large-capacity Internet exchange points are operational
Dimension Data’s Internet Solutions said on Tuesday that it is expanding its Parklands data centre in Johannesburg to cope with growing demand. It is spending R500m on the expansion