MultiChoice’s broad-based black economic empowerment companies, Phuthuma Nathi Investments 1 and 2, will receive ordinary and special dividends worth R900m, the Naspers-owned pay-television broadcaster said on Thursday. The companies will receive an ordinary dividends of R480m, compared
Recently appointed communications minister Yunus Carrim has reiterated deadlines for dealing with the most pressing issues facing the South African technology sector, including digital migration, spectrum allocation and finalising government’s broadband policy
JSE-listed technology services group Business Connexion (BCX) has entered into an agreement to sell its entire interest in its Q Link business unit to Summit Garnishee Solutions (SGS).
SGS, which is a privately held company not related to BCX, has agreed to pay R187,5m in cash for the business
Solidarity has called for renewed wage talks with telecommunications giant Telkom, the trade union said on Thursday. The request for another round of negotiations came after claims that Telkom gave its top management “exorbitant salary increases”, spokesman Marius Croucamp said in a statement. “Top management received
Soon the Nokia name will vanish from high-end devices. Nokia has sold the Lumia and Asha trademarks to Microsoft as part of their €5,4bn deal, announced on Tuesday, but Nokia’s name will vanish from smartphones. Curiously, Microsoft will continue
A massive fire on Wednesday at a factory in Wuxi, China owned by Korea’s SK Hynix could send flash memory and random-access memory (RAM) prices soaring. Hynix is the world’s second largest memory manufacturer. According to early reports on Chinese technology news websites and blogs, the fire has
From applications to help people learn new languages to online training portals for bankers to learn new office processes, “gamification” is in fashion. Some critics ask whether it’s as effective a model for learning as its pundits claim, but one South African company believes the results speak for themselves
The South African government had over the past year submitted 14 requests to Facebook and three to Google to get information about certain users, Beeld reported. Facebook did not grant any of the requests, and Google granted one request, after receiving a court order in a case involving defamation
Absa has added a new channel to its Internet banking portal with Absa Online Insurance, which allows customers to purchase insurance products or maintain existing ones. Customers can apply for insurance, complete the necessary applications and secure long- or short-term insurance
Communications minister Yunus Carrim plans to hold a high-level meeting between broadcasters in mid-September, to be mediated by an independent third party, in an effort to resolve a simmering dispute over whether government-subsidised set-top boxes for digital terrestrial
