Browsing: Naspers

Naspers is now worth a trillion rand

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Renewed bullishness towards media and Internet giant Naspers has pushed its market capitalisation above R1 trillion for the first time. On Tuesday, Naspers’s share price jumped to a new all-time high of R2 320,73, pushing its

ShowMax expands across Africa

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Naspers-owned Internet television provider ShowMax on Friday said that it is expanding to 36 additional countries in sub-Saharan Africa. ShowMax was launched in South Africa in August 2015

Naspers heads to Silicon Valley

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Global media and Internet giant Naspers has opened an office in San Francisco, the US city renowned for housing top internet giants such as Facebook and Google. Naspers’s opening of its San Francisco

Icann set to terminate Naspers domains

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South Africa’s Naspers, and its subsidiary MultiChoice, may soon forfeit the generic top-level domains they applied for in 2012. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, better known as Icann

Mall of Africa gets wall-to-wall Wi-Fi

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Mall of Africa, the vast new shopping centre that has been opened in Midrand, north of Johannesburg, has been given wall-to-wall Wi-Fi connectivity from open-access Wi-Fi provider Vast Networks. The company said the Mall of Africa deployment

Inside Netflix’s risky bid for world domination

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Netflix flexed its original programming muscle at a press event in Paris last week, bringing stars like Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Spacey and Ricky Gervais on stage to talk up its programming for the next few months. The company will spend around US$5bn

IS restructures in big SME push

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Dimension Data division Internet Solutions has relaunched its small and medium enterprise business in an effort to claim a bigger chunk of the growing segment, in the process ditching

AirPlay support comes to ShowMax

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Naspers-owned streaming service ShowMax has finally debuted a feature many subscribers and prospective customers have been asking for: Apple AirPlay support for iPhones and iPads