JSE-listed technology group Altech is considering ramping up its investments in telecommunications infrastructure in SA and West Africa, effectively replicating…
Shares in Bharti Airtel rose Tuesday as investors awaited an announcement by the top Indian mobile firm and SA’s flagship…
First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan unwittingly sparked a public debate on the future of newspapers recently. Writing in the bank’s weekly e-mail newsletter, he asked employees whether they’d be willing to help the company save more than R1m/ year — and spare the environment — by reading news online instead of having it subscribe to newspapers. Business Day editor Peter Bruce picked up on this communication and challenged Jordaan’s views in defence of his paper’s print income stream
The SA Post Office said on Tuesday its banking unit will become a separate company. Postbank would be “corporatised” in…
Nearly half a million South Africans have ported their telephone numbers from one mobile network operator to another. That’s the…
Naspers has bought a Brazilian e-commerce group for US$342m, the media company said on Tuesday. It had acquired 91% of…
Xerox, the global copier and imaging giant, will pay US$6,4bn to acquire the outsourcing company Affiliated Computer Services, expanding its…
Stuart Ntlathi is just 22. But for nine years already, since the tender age of 13, he’s been rallying other…
Jon Tullett, Toby Shapshak, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle are the crew this week. Among plenty of other things, they discuss the Intel Developer Forum, Microsoft’s Courier tablet device, Livescribe Pulse Smartpens, 3D video and the Blu-ray optical format