Telecommunications opereator Neotel has appointed Noel Studti as its new chief sales and marketing officer. Studti, a former IBMer, takes on the role from this month. Studti joins Neotel from the Innovation Group, where he most recently held the position of chief sales officer. He has previously worked closely with

Christo Davel, former head of now-defunct online bank 20twenty, sparked intense debate and provoked security warnings from local banks last week when he took the wraps off his new venture, personal financial management website 22seven. The start-up got itself noticed. But is the service safe to use?

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is probably not a happy man today, with the company reporting disappointing fourth quarter 2011 earnings , including a dramatic 58% decline in net income. Many analysts were unsure where Amazon would stand this past quarter with the launch of the much-hyped US$199 Kindle Fire tablet

For months, Research in Motion (RIM), the Canadian maker of BlackBerry smartphones, has seemed incapable of getting anything right. Its PlayBook tablet went on sale without e-mail (unless attached to a BlackBerry). Its network was blacked out for days with scarcely a word from the company. It has

Remember the old joke about the dim tailor who makes a loss on each piece of clothing but hopes to make it up in volume? That describes the market for flat-panel screens for televisions. None of the companies that produce liquid crystal display (LCD) panels — Samsung and LG Display from South Korea

Most people running a business that could end up on the wrong end of a lawsuit would keep a low profile. Not Kim Dotcom. The boss of Megaupload, a popular website that let users store and share music, films and other content, Dotcom went out of

Apple has announced that John Browett, the now former CEO of UK-based Dixons Retail, will join the company as senior vice president of its retail division. “Our retail stores are all about customer service, and John shares that commitment like no one else we’ve met

TopTV is set for a shake-up at the top, as the CEO of parent company On Digital Media, Vino Govender, looks set to leave the broadcaster. A source that spoke on condition of anonymity said that Govender would be leaving On Digital Media this week

Former Absa chief marketing and communications officer Happy Ntshingila has been appointed as SuperSport’s new CEO, the sports channel said on Tuesday. Ntshingila would report to the MultiChoice SA group CEO Imtiaz Patel, SuperSport spokesman Clinton van der Berg said in a statement

The ZA Tech Show podcast team talks about Nokia’s Lumia 800 launch, the furore surrounding personal financial management website 22seven, Facebook’s planned listing, developments at Google, the Megupload bust, the end of piracy and much more besides