Mxit chief product officer Vincent Maher has left the social network, where he spearheaded the transition from feature phones to smartphones, and has been named as chief innovation officer at Kagiso Media. Maher, who co-founded Motribe with Nic Haralambous – the business was later sold to Mxit – will look after the development
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There’s a revolution under way, and this one’s not being agitated by the working class, although they certainly have their part to play. It is being waged by banks, cellphone providers and entrepreneurs hoping to capitalise on a mobile commercial market that is estimated will be worth more than US$800bn by 2016 and have more than 400m users
It’s been a busy news week on the technology front. Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg tackle some of the bigger developments in this week’s episode of TalkCentral. Items on the agenda this week include Vodacom’s relaunch of
MTN may be in talks to buy a stake in giant Indian telecommunications operator Tata Teleservices and its associated business Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra). The Hindustan Times quotes unnamed sources with knowledge of the discussions as confirming talks are underway. “It is too early to comment on the level of discussions
Will it be a case of second time lucky for Vodacom? The mobile operator has finally relaunched M-Pesa, the mobile payments platform that has proved enormously successful in Kenya and Tanzania, in South Africa, hoping it will
Vodacom Business has opened a new, 3 000sq m data centre in Midrand as it opens up its focus on providing cloud services to its clients. The data centre, the mobile operator’s eighth such facility, has been built to be energy efficient and to minimise the impact on the environment, a spokesman said. Vodacom Business South Africa
The total remuneration bill for Telkom’s executive and nonexecutive directors as well as its prescribed officers has declined between the 2013 and 2014, the telecommunications group’s latest annual report, published
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Cell C has revealed that its subscriber base had grown to 18,1m at the end of June, a 59% improvement on a year ago, as it announces plans to restructure its interest-bearing debt. The company reported a 10,5% increase in revenue over the same period, it said. The mobile operator, South Africa’s third largest
Mobile operator Cell C plans to restructure its debt, asking holders of its bonds for permission to extend repayment of money it’s meant to pay back to them next year by a further three years. Reuters reported on Friday that the mobile operator, South Africa’s third biggest after Vodacom and MTN, plans to restructure