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Netflix rival Iflix, a video streaming service that focuses on emerging markets in Africa and elsewhere, has secured US$133m (about R1.8bn) in new funding in a round led by US media giant Hearst. The company

Netflix has announced its first-ever acquisition, snapping up a comic-book publisher and pushing a strategy that has also been popular with major Hollywood studios for years: superheroes. Netflix agreed to buy

Netflix has begun to reshape the TV business overseas just as it has in the US, its home market. The streaming-video provider scored a record second quarter, according to a statement Monday, surpassing

The telecommunications industry in South Africa and the rest of the continent is on the cusp of a fibre and mobile broadband boom, as network operators scramble to meet the demand for video, cloud applications and mobile solutions among consumers

Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger said hackers claim to have stolen an unreleased film and are threatening to distribute it online if they aren’t paid a ransom. The company is declining to do so. Iger made the comments on Monday in a

MTN Group’s former video-on-demand provider, Discover Digital, is starting a new South African online TV service with lender Investec, just days after its partnership with Africa’s biggest wireless operator was cancelled. The closely

A hacker who has unsuccessfully tried to hold Netflix to ransom has achieved an unexpected result: his failure shows that subscription-based business models in content distribution is making piracy pointless. Intellectual property