Welcome to the latest episode of South Africa’s leading weekly technology podcast, TalkCentral. In the show this week, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about the proliferation of mobile payment applications
The State IT Agency (Sita) has defended its decision to award former provincial top cop Mzwandile Petros’s company a R10m deal to recover three stolen laptops, the Sunday Times reported. “The minister [then Lindiwe Sisulu], the chairperson and I took a decision to appoint the company, even though it wasn’t
The SABC has paid around R42m in bonuses to its staff and middle management, the Sunday Times reported. According to the report, bonuses of R8 000 after tax were paid to 3 007 workers as part of a wage agreement with unions
Brett Haggard hosts Steven Ambrose in a chat about the state of mobile in South Africa, and a variety of other things. More specifically, they discuss the return of HTC to the local market, the launch of the LG G3 smartphone
Visa doesn’t just think a cashless society is possible, it thinks it could even happen soon — and in Africa. Visa country manager for South Africa Mandy Lamb says the payments technology company’s strategy is to displace the “trillions of dollars worth of cash” still in use across Africa. It’s not Visa’s intention to
Former Telkom acting CEO and Cell C CEO Jeffrey Hedberg has been appointed as the new CEO of Mobilink, one of Pakistan’s largest mobile operators, parent company VimpelCom said in a statement on Friday. Hedberg succeeds Rashid Khan, who has decided to retire after almost 15 years in management positions
On Digital Media (ODM), the owner of pay-television operator StarSat (formerly TopTV), is making a more aggressive play into sports, reserving an entire channel number range to sports channels and launching a new sports
A new local application, Appetite, wants to give hungry South Africans easy access to their favourite takeaway joints, right from their smartphones. The app, which has been been in development for the past 18 months
The Mail & Guardian denied a report on Friday that it is in financial trouble, that staff were unpaid for months, and that it subsidised business interests in Zimbabwe. “The allegations in the article are completely untrue,” the newspaper’s CEO, Hoosain Karjieker, told Sapa. “We do not fund the Zimbabwe operations
Telkom has suspended its current restructuring and retrenchment process following an agreement with trade union Solidarity on Thursday, the trade union said. “This includes halting the process wherein Telkom intended to use race as a criterion for layoffs,” telecommunications spokesman Marius