MWeb, the Internet service provider owned by media group Naspers, is assessing Telkom Internet’s dramatic broadband price reductions, announced on Thursday, and has told TechCentral it will respond with product announcements of its own early next week. This comes after
First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan may be planning to leave the bank at the end of the year, according to a report. The 44-year-old has been CEO since 2004 and has been instrumental in driving its digital strategy, including the development of mobile banking applications and its drive to get consumers to use digital
What’s up with Apple’s share price? That’s the question we ask in the third TalkCentral podcast of 2013. Your hosts, Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson, bring you another packed episode of news and app picks as well as winners and losers. On the agenda this week, we speculate about Apple’s
Judge Louis Vorster had misinterpreted a section of the Sanral Act on public consultation to reach his ruling that e-tolling could proceed, the high court in Pretoria heard on Friday. Mike Maritz, for the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa), argued before Vorster that he had “erred fundamentally” in his interpretation
Kenyan capital Nairobi has emerged as a “serious tech hub” and may become Africa’s technology leader, Google chairman Eric Schmidt said this week. Schmidt visited Kenya’s iHub innovation hub last week during a whirlwind visit to Africa that also included stops in South Sudan, Chad, Nigeria and Rwanda
It’s a roundabout kind of episode as Brett Haggard hosts Sam Beckbessinger and Guy Taylor in a rambling discussion all about Apple TV’s launch in South Africa, the media and piracy situation at home and internationally, Kickstarter, the Aaron Swartz debacle, Instagram’s removal of its API from Twitter
Telkom has historically been a follower when it comes to cutting broadband prices, but the fixed-line operator looks determined to lead the charge in 2013 with aggressive price cuts from its Internet service provider (ISP) business, Telkom Internet, whose new uncapped consumer broadband prices
China’s Tencent, in which JSE-listed Internet and media group Naspers holds a 35% stake, appears to have designs on the African market and is preparing to ramp up focus on South Africa and Africa more broadly with its WeChat platform. Tencent, well known in China for its QQ
Fifty billion dollars was wiped off Apple’s valuation in after-market trading on Wednesday after it published first-quarter results that spooked investors, despite lifting sales by 18% to a record US$54,5bn. The question on investors’ lips now is whether this marks the bottom of an aggressive sell-off
Shares in Apple plunged by almost 10% in after-hours trading on Wednesday in New York after the consumer electronics company published first-quarter financial results that fell short of analysts’ expectations. Investors appear to have taken fright, in particular, at the
