Google’s search advertising service, AdWords, is becoming increasingly contentious in trade mark law. When you buy a word from Google as an AdWord, this has the effect that whenever anyone enters that word as a search term, your pop-up advert will appear on the screen alongside your search results
Government has listened! Within days of newly appointed communications minister Yunus Carrim stepping into the shoes of his predecessor, the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill and the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) Amendment Bill
Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig has blamed the company’s bigger rival, Vodacom, for quality of service issues experienced by consumers. He says Vodacom is not living up to the terms of a national service agreement the two parties signed in 2012. He also pointed a finger of blame
Newly appointed communications minister Yunus Carrim is moving quickly to familiarise himself with the problems plaguing South Africa’s public broadcaster. The minister’s office said on Tuesday that both he and his deputy, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, will meet with the SABC on Wednesday
Cell C’s majority shareholder, Dubai-based Oger Telecom, has earmarked an equity investment of US$350m (R3,5bn) for the mobile operator. In addition to the shareholder injection, key lenders, including Nedbank and Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA), have concluded a long-term financing package of R2,2bn to Cell C, in a transaction arranged
The department of communications has initiated an independent investigation into the Universal Service & Access Agency of South Africa (Usaasa) following fresh allegations of corruption and maladministration at the state-owned entity. A report detailing the
Johannesburg-listed mobile telecommunications group MTN is investing US$75m in a UK-based fund run Amadeus Capital Partners. Amadeus says the new fund will invest in “late-stage venture and growth companies, predominantly in mature markets, developing online and mobile applications and services
DStv Online CEO John Kotsaftis, 41, is the quintessential geek. He tells me as much when I sit down to interview him in one of the boardrooms at DStv Online’s offices in Randburg, Johannesburg. His love of technology started with a friend’s gaming console. “He got an Atari
The Competition Tribunal is this week set to hear arguments related to the settlement agreement reached between the Competition Commission and Telkom in June.
The agreement with the commission is subject to approval by the tribunal, which will hear the matter on Thursday and Friday this
Puleng Kwele, who was appointed as CEO of Broadband Infraco in 2012, believes the state-owned wholesale fibre-optic infrastructure provider, whose clients include Neotel, MTN and Cell C, is poised to turn around its fortunes in the financial year ended March 2014
