Vodacom has won an estimated R5bn contract with the South African government as the national treasury seeks to cut costs, according to three people familiar with the matter. The tender is to supply as many as 1,3m government
A malicious Android app, available until recently in the Google Play store and capable of seizing root access rights on users’ phones, has been downloaded more than half a million times, according to security
MTN Group, Africa’s largest mobile-phone operator by sales, rose for a second day after raising more than US$1,3bn (R18,6bn) in loans before the potential sale of bonds. The shares jumped 2,2% to R121,49 as of 12.29pm in Johannesburg
The head of economic transformation in the ANC has backed finance minister Pravin Gordhan, saying charges relating to setting up an illicit tax surveillance unit are “concocted” and politically motivated
Tesla has taken plenty of flak lately, notably for its tendency to burn through vast sums of cash without delivering profit. But in at least one respect it’s succeeding beyond CEO Elon Musk’s wildest dreams
Media24 is selling financial and market data feeds provider INET BFA to financial markets technology specialist IRESS for R149,6m in cash. The acquisition of INET BFA will add to IRESS’s trading, market data, portfolio
Technology group EOH has continued to defy weak economic conditions, posting a robust set of results for the year ended 31 July 2016. Headline earnings per share rose by a quarter to R7,19 on the back of a 31% improvement in
Samsung Electronics will push out a software update for Korea that caps the capacity of Galaxy Note7 smartphone batteries at 60%, a stop-gap measure to prevent overheating as the device’s global recall proceeds. The unusual move, announced
Apple faced an embarrassing technical glitch after some customers reported difficulties updating their iPhone operating system to the latest software, which became available on Tuesday. After downloading the iOS 10 update, the smartphones
Tuesday’s launch of an online reality television show called #BreakTheNet is just the start of a big push by Cell C into the media business. The mobile operator’s executive head of marketing, Doug Mattheus