Facebook increased the number of regular users in its three biggest African markets by 13% in the nine months through to end-March as the US social network intensified growth plans on the continent. The company added 4m account

The rand may extend its best monthly rally since March after South Africa’s approval of Anheuser-Busch InBev’s takeover of SABMiller was seen triggering foreign-exchange inflows and as international investors continue to

Tariffic, the company that analyses the mobile operators’ tariff plans to offer businesses and consumers the best rates based on their requirements, has conducted an analysis of how much it costs to terminate a contract with South Africa’s major

Standard Bank is not commenting on a new report that police have found that a Standard Bank computer system was probably compromised during an international heist in which Y1,8bn (about US$17,6m) was illegally withdrawn from ATMs across Japan

Journalists are set to picket outside the SABC’s offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town on Friday in solidarity with the public broadcaster’s staff. A message of the intended action was widely circulated by journalists and news

MTN Nigeria has won access to the 2,6GHz spectrum band. This is a crucial band for providing wireless broadband services and comes well ahead of the allocation of access by South African authorities to local mobile operators, including

Microsoft, marking the one-year anniversary of Windows 10, said the operating system is running on more than 350m active devices. More than 96% of Microsoft’s Windows enterprise customers – those who have older versions of

Regulation is unlikely to hobble the R6,5bn sale of telecommunications business Neotel to connectivity provider Liquid Telecom, said representatives of the latter company. India’s Tata Communications, which owns a controlling

Technology-powered home cleaning services start-up SweepSouth, fresh from raising R10m in new funding, is gearing up to expand to its fourth South African city and is also contemplating its first foray outside South Africa, its co-founder, Aisha