The Internet economy in SA was worth R51bn/year in 2010 and will swell to R103bn by 2016, representing 2,5% of projected gross domestic product, a new research report has found. The report, by the Boston Consulting Group, a management consulting firm, is a comprehensive study of the impact of the Internet across

Former Research in Motion (RIM) executive Craige Fleischer has been appointed as the new head of mobile communications for Samsung Electronics in SA. He takes up the position on 1 April. Fleischer joined Samsung in October, where he took on a business development role in the company’s office automation and

The City of Johannesburg would seek to resolve at least 66 000 billing queries by the end of June, mayoral committee member Geoffrey Makhubo said on Monday. “New queries will be resolved in 30 days. That is our promise to the residents of Johannesburg,” he said in Johannesburg. The number 66 000 reflected the total number of outstanding billing queries at present

Apple on Monday finally offered up some plans for its nearly US$100bn war chest, and it’ll almost certainly please the company’s shareholders. The company announced that it will initiate a quarterly dividend of $2,65/share beginning the fourth fiscal quarter (beginning 1 July), as well as a $10bn share repurchase programme

In January, the New York Times lost its top spot in comScore’s ranking of the world’s biggest newspaper websites to Britain’s Daily Mail. The Times sniffed at the accuracy of comScore’s figures, which exaggerate the Mail’s online audience by including a personal-finance site that the paper owns. But the battle to be biggest reflects a

In this episode of TalkCentral, your podcast hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson chat about John Holdsworth’s new venture, AppChat, and how it could disrupt the mobile voice business in SA. Also this week, we look at MTN Group’s growing troubles in Iran and its local subsidiary’s demand

So, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has decided to reject TopTV parent company On Demand Media’s request for permission to air three “adult” channels on its satellite pay-TV platform. In doing so, the regulator hasn’t only overstepped the mark in terms of the degree to which it should be able to interfere

The third generation of Apple’s hugely successful iPad went on sale on Friday. Hordes of eager fans queued outside their local Apple Store, Best Buy, Radio Shack, Walmart and other outlets to be among the first to lay their hands on the latest and greatest version of the iconoclastic tablet computer. Apple is geared up to sell millions during

Apple will hold a conference call on Monday to announce plans for its large cash balance. The company is sitting on about US$98bn in cash, and investors are getting increasingly antsy and clamouring for a dividend or share buyout. Tim Cook and Apple’s chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer, will host the call

Vodacom has been been ordered to pay a politically connected fixer US$21m (R159m) this week by a court in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but the episode could end up costing the mobile operator almost twice that amount. On the phone from Kinshasa this week, Moto Mabanga, the SA-based fixer who was