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Faith and focus for AdaptIT’s Shabalala

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AdaptIT founder and CEO Sbu Shabalala looks far younger than his 40 years. Impeccably dressed and softly spoken, Shabalala, a Durbanite, looks more like a backroom accountant than the head of a JSE-listed IT company. Over the

Altech joins techs in move to Buccleuch

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The stretch of land around the confluence of the M1, N1 and N3 highways at Buccleuch, north of Johannesburg, is turning into something of a corporate information and communications technology hub. Just months after mobile operator Cell C

Africa the next big growth market – SAP

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SAP, the world’s largest developer of business management software, believes Africa will be its fastest-growing market over the next five years and the company, which is headquartered in Germany, plans to pour money into the continent to ensure its business in key markets grows to US$1bn/year by 2017. SAP co-CEO

Altron’s Bytes in Oracle buy

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Altron subsidiary Bytes Technology Group has acquired Alliance Business Solutions, an Oracle software specialist, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition has been done through Bytes Systems Integration. The rationale for the deal

Cell C to build new head office campus

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Third mobile operator Cell C plans to build a new, 50 000sq m campus north of Sandton to integrate its disparate offices, which are located across Johannesburg, from Parktown to Sandton. The new facility, which will house Cell C’s head

Rumble in the Java jungle

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Larry Ellison and Larry Page, the bosses of Oracle and Google, share a name. But they clearly do not share the same view of a particular intellectual property (IP) matter. On 16 April, a jury began hearing arguments in a trial to determine whether Google’s Android operating system infringes copyrights and patents owned by Oracle. The

Google says ‘Hello, Moto’

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Google on Monday said it was buying Motorola Mobility for US$12,5bn in what most analysts are seeing as escalation of the software patents war with Apple and Microsoft. But the acquisition holds both opportunities and big risks for the