JSE- and Nasdaq-listed Net1 UEPS Technologies, which recently concluded a R10bn deal with government to manage the payment of social grants, has reached an agreement to sell up to 19,9% of its equity to black shareholders in a deal worth up to US$80m (R625m). The deal will “strengthen the development

You could almost feel sorry for Google’s management team lately. Their every move draws stinging criticism from the media, regulators and customers. The latest kerfuffle? Google is changing its privacy policies on 1 March. Now, website privacy policies are generally like Ayn Rand novels and the Government Gazette

Old Mutual and T-Systems in SA have signed an IT infrastructure management deal worth almost R2,6bn, extending the two companies’ existing relationship until 2019. They say it’s one of the largest IT infrastructure deals of this nature in SA’s insurance industry. Referred to as “Equinox”, the deal is meant

Nokia has launched its Lumia range of smartphones, its first phones powered by Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform, in the SA market. The Lumia devices represent Nokia’s concerted effort to claim back lost market share lost to Apple’s iPhone and devices

Mike Sharman, 28, is tall, stubble-faced and boasts an incredible cleft in his chin. “I wanted to be an actor,” he says by way of introduction. “But my old man pointed out that might not be the best idea in SA.” Sharman isn’t an actor, though he briefly tried his hand at it despite his father’s remonstrations. Instead, he started a digital agency called Retroviral

There’s no shame in trying to hang on to Apple’s coat tails considering the US company is now by far the most valuable technology company in the world. XtremeMac wears its allegiance on its sleeve, and its latest offering, the Tango Bar speaker, offers a

Looking around SA, it’s hard to believe BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is in trouble. The BlackBerry remains South Africans’ smartphone of choice but in developed markets consumers are shunning it in favour of alternatives. The resignations this week of long-serving

Your crew this week consists of Andy Hadfield, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle. They discuss Alan Knott-Craig taking the reins at Cell C, Jeffrey Hedberg leaving Altech, BlackBerry’s CEO shuffle, Microsoft’s renaissance post Gates, CEO Twitter rockstars and social networking in 2012, and much more

Government will not meet its self-imposed deadline of April 2012 to switch on digital terrestrial television, says communications minister Dina Pule, who now expects services will be only be launched commercially in the third quarter of the year. Pule was speaking

The drive is on to give the poor in rural areas access to communication services, communications minister Dina Pule said on Tuesday. “Our aim is to bridge the rural-urban divide by 2020 with the help of the state-owned enterprises, such as [state-owned signal distributor] Sentech and the Universal Service