Tencent Africa, a joint venture between China’s Tencent and South African-headquartered media group Naspers, have entered the competitive local music streaming market with a R60/month service called
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A self-taught computer security researcher credited with stopping a devastating cyberattack that crippled British hospitals in May was arrested on charges that he created malware used to hack banking
Vuyani Jarana is leaving Vodacom to take the reins at troubled state-owned airline South African Airways. Jarana, who has headed Vodacom enterprise business since 2012, will take the helm at the national carrier
Being useful is important. We define all innovation by its use – if it doesn’t have a purpose, then what good is it? Whenever I think of this, I can’t help but recall a scene from Payback, the slick film noir Mel Gibson
Less than a week after announcing sweeping cuts to consumer broadband prices, and introducing unlimited “free” on-network calls, Telkom has now reduced communications costs for business customers, too. The new Unlimited Business
MTN has increased its South African subscriber base by 1.5% to 31.2m, with revenue rising by 1.6%, the telecommunications group said on Thursday. “MTN South Africa delivered an encouraging performance, supported
Crypto money is going to change the world fundamentally. That’s the word from Russell Lamberti, an economist and the head of ETM Macro Advisers, who believes the stage is set for a showdown between
The community supporting bitcoin has long tried to avoid a so-called “hard fork” splitting the currency in two. On Tuesday, it happened anyhow. The idea behind the change is to speed up transactions
A raft of e-mails leaked to South African media about how the Gupta family have won billions of rand of contracts from state-owned companies and influenced government decisions through their
Thank you for downloading the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to former lecturer and ICT policy and regulatory expert Charley Lewis on the ICT sector in South Africa and how it’s