Discovery, South Africa’s third-largest insurer by market value, said it has set up a partnership with Japan’s Sumitomo Life Insurance Co and SoftBank Group to develop and introduce products for the world’s third-largest economy. Discovery’s
Vodacom continues to defy weak economic conditions in the markets in which it operates, revealing on Thursday that its strong financial performance in the 2016 financial year has continued into the first three months of its new financial
Discovery has announced a third change to the way it allocates points to members of its Vitality Active Rewards programme inside its first year. The programme, first piloted in the UK before being launched in South Africa last September, is simple
BlackBerry CEO John Chen has presided over five new phones during his two-and-a-half years running the company, none of which has managed to turn around steadily declining smartphone sales. Some analysts are wondering who would buy a sixth. BlackBerry
Eight-year-old Lillian looks nervously at her king. It’s stuck; hemmed in on F3 by her opponent’s castle and queen. Two moves later, it’s all over. Checkmate. She looks around, despondently. Behind her around 20 other youngsters hunch over their chess boards
It’s rare: regulation which actually yields a positive result for both sides of the market it intends to “manage”. Sure, the move by regulator, Icasa, to start a licensing process for precious mobile spectrum is
Technology companies that make business software are never going to match the glamour of their consumer counterparts. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is a household name, but many would be hard-pressed
The SABC has still not replied to Icasa’s ruling that it must withdraw its ban on the broadcasting of violent protest footage. SABC spokesman Kaizer Kganyago on Wednesday said the broadcaster had
Eight SABC journalists who were fired this week have updated their urgent application with the constitutional court, requesting the court to intervene over their dismissals. The journalists, dubbed the
ThumbzUp, the local developer of mobile point-of-sale systems available in South Africa through Absa and in Australia through ANZ, is on the verge of signing significant new deals that will take it into