Years ago, Google built a social network separate from its prized asset, Web search. The effort failed. Now the company is trying again — only this time, it’s turning its search engine into something that looks a lot like
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Internet penetration has reached 75% of the population in the Western Cape and 54.7% in Gauteng, but other, more rural provinces have fallen far behind, new research from World Wide Worx shows. The company’s Internet Access in
Vodacom Group sees the expansion of mobile banking services into new markets in sub-Saharan Africa as a top priority following a shareholder vote to rubber stamp its purchase of a 35% stake in Safaricom, Kenya’s biggest company
EOH’s share price tumbled more than 12% at one point on Tuesday as investors took fright at the resurfacing of corruption allegations involving a contract with welfare agency Sassa. The share regained some composure in the early afternoon
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to former Business Connexion chief technology officer Andy Brauer, who has struck out on his own with a new
It has been clear for some time that all is not well with the South African consumer. Or, indeed, the economy. Government spending has all but frozen and consumer spending is not going to paper
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]’m going to quiz you on two companies. One of them makes complex cars. The other makes Adam Sandler movies.…
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
Vumatel, one of the earliest and now largest players in the South African fibre-to-the-home broadband market, has agreed to buy a big portion of Link Africa’s home fibre infrastructure. In a letter to customers
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats via Skype to Sam Paddock, co-founder and CEO of GetSmarter, the Cape Town-based online education specialist that has just been acquired