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Movile, Latin America’s mobile commerce platform, on Tuesday announced it has raised R606 milillion ($40 million) in Series F funding…

Comsol, backed by Convergence Partners, Nedbank Private Equity and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) as investment partners , plans to …

Privately owned pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom and investment firm Royal Bafokeng Holdings (RBH) have agreed to buy Neotel from India’s…

With the amount of personal data stored on hard drives, one would expect companies to wipe these crucial devices clean…

As the world continues to become increasingly connected, organisations are faced with large quantities of data they need to protect…

We all know the nutritional “evils” of sugar as a potential cause of obesity, chronic disease and death, through to…

The rise of so-called fintech companies will make it easier, and cheaper, to undertake monthly mundane transactions. By Andries Kok, CFO…

More than 20 years after the first web server started bringing the internet into our lives, a recent conference in…

Take an advanced technology. Add a twist of fantasy. Stir well, and watch the action unfold. By Andrew Maynard It’s the…

MTN, Africa and Middle East largest mobile phone group, has hit back at criticism by Black Management Forum (BMF) and…

The banking group has issued a warning and is urging its customers to be more vigilant due to increasing banking…

Back in 2014, MTN – South Africa’s second biggest mobile phone operator – shelled out R408 million to buy 50%…

The world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, FAST (the Five hundred metre Aperture Spherical Telescope), is rapidly taking shape in China.…

A woman’s place is in the home. Her “job” is to marry and to raise children. This thinking still prevails…

The security community has been demonstrating successful cloning of contactless transactions since at least 2012. Full cloning of cards is…

Talks by South Africa’s Telkom to buy Broadband Infraco has collapsed, ending attempts by the country’s biggest fixed-line telephone group…

The Black Management Forum (BMF) on Wednesday said that it viewed the decision by MTN to appoint Rob Shuter as…

The Hague Institute for Innovation (HiiL), a not-for-profit institution based in The Hague, is looking for law-savvy startups to create…

Vodacom, which is majority owned by British mobile phone giant Vodafone, has tapped former Uganda Breweries managing director Nyimpini Mabunda as…

South Africa’s Johannesburg is the highest ranked city on the African continent in Ericsson’s Networked Society City Index 2016. The…

Waste is the eternal burden of civilisation. The earliest known urban garbage dumps are found in Crete, made over 5,000…

More and more Small & Medium Businesses are setting up e-commerce sites, thanks to increased access to the Internet and…

Read the first in Naspers’ new Follow the Leader series, where it profile entrepreneurs making waves in high growth tech…

HCM (Human Capital Management) practices in South Africa are ever evolving, and with this a growing demand for software that’s…

Mike Whitfield, managing director of Nissan South Africa, has called for more cooperation between carmakers and government to ensure that…