Naspers named Akash Bhatia chief financial officer of its ShowMax video streaming business as Africa’s biggest company by market value expands the service to 36 new countries in a challenge to Netflix, which is also growing in the
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This is a turn up for the books. Telkom, through its newly formed Openserve wholesale and networks division, has announced it will peer with other operators and service providers through the neutral Internet exchange point, NAPAfrica. NAPAfrica, which is located
Netflix has been in the headlines a lot recently, and not in a good way. There’s news about competitor Amazon launching a monthly video service, subscription fees going up, its library of content
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
Technology stocks, which outperformed the market in 2015, have had a wobble in 2016, forcing many investors to question whether the high-flying tech sector is facing an implosion of the sort
South Africa’s Film and Publication Board is getting ready to do battle with Netflix, reportedly giving the US streaming media service two weeks to comply with local regulations or face sanctions. Kenyan website Standard Digital
Netflix announced in January that it would begin cracking down on virtual private networking services and other tools that people around the world have used to access the US version of the video-on-demand streaming service. Now Steven
The crowded South African video-on-demand market is getting even more crowded. A new entrant, InterneTV – the brainchild of broadcasting equipment supply industry veteran John
Earlier this month, YouTube’s new subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service, YouTube Red, launched its first swag of “original” programmes. This followed news of significant rights acquisitions by SVOD services at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals
Local Internet video service ShowMax is not increasing its monthly R99 subscription rate despite the weak rand impacting its business. Multinational media and Internet company Naspers launched ShowMax on 19 August last year as a TV series and movie video-on-demand service.