Netflix and ShowMax rival Iflix, which is promising a lower-cost alternative video-on-demand service, will be launched in South Africa and six other African countries, including Kenya and Nigeria. The platform, which until now has focused
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Iflix, a video streaming service with customers mostly in Southeast Asia, raised US$90m (about R1,2bn) in a round led by telecommunications giants Liberty Global and Kuwait-based Zain to take on Netflix and Naspers, which owns ShowMax, in Africa
MultiChoice is hiking the prices of its main DStv bouquets. However, most of the increases this year are relatively modest compared to last year’s adjustments. The 2017 increases are mostly below the
“We are always looking at acquisitions,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told analysts last month. “There’s not a size that we would not do.” It’s a message he’s increasingly stressed over the past year as investors
Netflix is plotting a move into the toy business. The world’s largest paid video service is looking to hire an executive to oversee the licensing of shows for books, comics and toys, and forge partnerships with retailers
More than 120 companies, from Apple to Zynga, filed an impassioned legal brief condemning US President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, stepping up the industry’s growing opposition to the policy. The amicus brief was filed late
Few tech workers come from the seven countries affected by US President Donald Trump’s entry ban. But the 97 US companies, most of them from the tech sector, that lent their support to the State of Washington’s lawsuit aiming to block
Alphabet has warned investors about a slew of new competitors, highlighting the company’s broad expansion beyond its original Google search business. It named rivals including Apple, Netflix and Hulu, while highlighting risks from
Amazon.com’s strategy of sticking to Hollywood’s time-honoured traditions helped deliver a big payoff that has so far eluded its streaming rival Netflix – the first-ever best picture nomination for an online video service. Manchester by the Sea
In this week’s episode of TalkCentral, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg take a look at Netflix’s strong financial results – and they ask: has it taken the lead in South Africa from ShowMax? Also, this week, is WeChat