South Africans are known for taking unnatural risks every day, they are resourceful and have a healthy can-do attitude. The country has shown a remarkable propensity for innovation on a grand scale in the past – the world’s first heart transplant in Cape Town in 1967, the development (and dismantling) of a nuclear weapons programme in the 1980s and Sasol’s commercialisation of oil-from-coal technologies are a few notable examples. But these are not likely to inspire young entrepreneurs to go out and change the world
JSE-listed cellular network operator Vodacom has defended its acquisition of pan-African communications company Gateway, despite warning on Tuesday that its…
This week, Amazon.com’s Kindle e-book reader went on sale in SA and around the world. E-books are finally coming of age. Here’s why you’re going to want to buy one and why you may be better off delaying your purchase for a short while. If anyone has any doubts that the future of book publishing is electronic, consider this: where Amazon stocks both
Wireless broadband operator iBurst is reducing its headcount by about 20% as part of a restructuring meant to cut costs…
Mike Brown, MD of wireless telecommunications operator Broadlink, has come a long way from his place of birth in Chingola in Zambia’s copper belt. Brown, 44, who spent the early part of his career at electronics group Nashua, is hoping to build Broadlink, a subsidiary of WBS Holdings in which he holds a minority stake, into a significant alternative infrastructure operator in the business market in SA
Thousands of unemployed youth will benefit from a newly-launched government training scheme, communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda said on Tuesday. He…
Apple’s fiscal fourth-quarter profit soared 47%, surprising Wall Street and providing perhaps the strongest signal yet that technology companies may…
SA has a new telecommunications network exchange aimed at assisting smaller Internet service providers to reduce costs and compete more…
Vodacom has warned shareholders that it expects headline earnings per share to fall by as much as 20% in the…