The big news of the day is that Mzwanele (Jimmy) Manyi has bought ANN7 and The New Age from the Guptas for a total consideration of R450m. Predictably, there has been an eruption of cynical comments and probing questions
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Naspers shareholder Allan Gray plans to vote against the remuneration policy of Africa’s biggest company because it isn’t aligned to the performance of the business outside a stake in Chinese media giant Tencent. Naspers
GreenWish Partners, a renewable energy company run by a former Morgan Stanley executive, is planning to invest US$800m (about R10.5bn) on solar-powered telecommunications towers across Africa. The project could fuel
Intel, the biggest maker of semiconductors, said its new processors are going to deliver the biggest bump in performance that PC users have experienced in years. The eighth generation of its Core line will provide as much as a
Kuben Pillay is the new chairman of Cell C, while Larry Nestadt will serve as his deputy, the mobile operator said on Monday. The appointments follow the recapitalisation of Cell C and the purchase by
Controversial Gupta-aligned businessman Mzwanele Manyi is buying the Gupta-owned ANN7 and The New Age for R450m, it was revealed on Monday. A Manyi-owned company called Lodidox is buying Infinity Media
During a recent outing to a fancy restaurant, Andy Rubin spotted an all-too-familiar tableau: a couple on what seemed to be a first date taking pictures of their food and then losing themselves in their smartphones for the
Why aren’t there more female software developers in Silicon Valley? James Damore, the Google engineer fired for criticising the company’s diversity programme, believes that it’s all about “innate dispositional differences
The Competition Commission has launched a market inquiry into data services, a move that could result in a big shake-up in the way mobile operators charge for and structure their data plans. The inquiry comes as pressure
On TalkCentral this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg are joined by Andrew Fraser to chat about the week’s biggest local and international technology news. On the menu this week: Icasa’s attempts to