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Johannesburg- and New York-listed Electronic payments specialist Net1 UEPS Technologies has failed to conclude a black economic empowerment deal, blaming investigations around its winning of a multibillion-rand tender for the payment of South African social grants. A one-year option
TopTV parent On Digital Media is turning to China in an effort to stave off business failure. The proposed deal will result in China’s StarTimes taking a 20% stake in the business, the maximum foreign shareholding allowed for South African broadcasters. The troubled operator
Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig has warned of legal action if the telecommunications regulator does not cut mobile termination rates by the end of the year, according to a report on Friday. “I will use everything in my power to get Icasa [the Independent Communications Authority of SA] to do its job,” Knott-Craig told Business Day newspaper.
With Samsung and Apple dominant in the smartphone wars, Japan’s Sony has had to battle for the Android scraps with companies like HTC. With the Xperia Z, however, the company has done a superb job of catching up with the frontrunners and, in certain respects, even overtaking them. Unveiled
South Africans can expect the launch of three new city domains, .joburg, .capetown and .durban, before the end of the year. TechCentral first reported on the new city domains in 2012. It appears likely that the .africa domain, which was contested by a Mauritius-based company, will be available at the same time as the new city domains. The new domains are
These allegations from Mergan Moodley, the founder of On Digital Media (ODM), which owns TopTV, come on the same day the pay-TV station announced it would be discontinuing two channels from its bouquet for “operational reasons” in preparation for a new channel structure. “The IDC [Industrial Development Corp] has
JSE-listed technology services company Business Connexion (BCX) has turned in a modest performance in the six months ended 28 February 2013, with normalised headline earnings per share of 24,8c from 24,5c in the same period in 2012. Revenue grew by 8% to R2,9bn, bolstered, the company says
After a month’s break due to hectic travel and other schedules, TechCentral’s editor, Duncan McLeod, and deputy editor, Craig Wilson, are back for another episode of the TalkCentral podcast, brought to you by TechCentral, the home of South Africa’s best technology journalism. In the podcast this week
A thick Australian accent belies the fact that digital agency Quirk’s CEO, 37-year-old Justin Spratt, is a South African and African at heart. “I f***ing love this place,” he says colourfully when I meet with him at the company’s Sandton offices. “I’m exceptionally passionate about Africa in general,” he quickly adds