After FNB, Jordaan to focus on tech
Michael Jordaan is leaving First National Bank after 10 years as CEO to pursue his passion for technology and entrepreneurship. FNB parent F...
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VMware Announces vCloud Hybrid Service
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger has unveiled VMware vCloud Hybrid Service, an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud operated by VMware and built...
Adapt IT launches its first Knowledge Centre in Amaotia
Adapt IT CEO, Sbu Shabalala and Zwakele Primary student
Adapt IT, a growing and innovative IT company, launched its first Knowledge......
No apology from Apple CEO
Apple CEO Tim Cook (centre), CFO Peter Oppenheimer (left) and Apple head of tax operations Philip Bullock appear before a......
Michael Jordaan to step down at FNB
First National Bank’s tech-savvy CEO, Michael Jordaan, is stepping down. He will leave the bank at the end of 2013, with Jacques Celliers ...
MTN retains position in top 100 of BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands
Apple remains the BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brand for 2013, worth $185 billion. Apple grew just +1% in the last year compared to a...
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Kenya: Orange Kenya Wants Google to Share Content Revenue
[CIO]Orange Kenya CEO, Mickael Ghossein, has called on search giant Google to consider sharing revenues accrued from traffic which runs on o...
Opera’s WebKit-powered browser for Android comes out of beta with full launch
Opera’s WebKit-powered browser for Android has completed its beta period and is out in full today, the company has announced, with a few ...
This Just In: Yahoo buys Tumblr for $1.1 billion
Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behi...
Nigeria to host African Business Women’s Advocacy Forum: Women’s Leadership-Why Africa is Rising
Vital Voices Global Partnership and Women in Management, Business, and Public Service (WIMBIZ) today announced the hosting of the Supporting...
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Green light for Eskom wind farm
The National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) has granted Eskom a licence for its Sere wind farm in the Western Cape, the power parastatal sai...
SITA CEO’s contract to be terminated – report
SITA CEO Blake Mosley-Lefatola could be leaving the agency before his contract expires, alleges a report.
State Information Agency (SITA...
Northern provinces to get fibre
Limpopo and Mpumalanga are to get a high-speed broadband network after state-owned infrastructure company Broadband Infraco said it intends ...
BlackBerry Messenger coming to Android and iOS, Can it compete with WhatsApp, Viber?
BlackBerry has announced at its annual Live conference for developers that its popular BlackBerry Messenger aka BBM will soon be coming to A...
Things you don’t know about Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg
Yesterday was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s birthday. He’s 29. He has a lot to celebrate. He’s amassed a fortune, inspir...
Battle lines drawn over digital TV
Kagiso Media, which has previously expressed interest in launching both free-to-air and pay-television services, says digital terrestrial br...
Main One provides forum to expand partnerships among West African telecom operators
Main One, West Africa’s leading communications services company last week joined Africa’s top telecoms carriers and executives to discus...
BBM now for Apple, Android
BBM is so convincing that we can let it live on its own merits now, says BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins.......
BlackBerry to release BBM for iOS and Android
BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins announced during the company’s annual BlackBerry Live conference today that their popular social messaging s...
Dell, Intel, Lenovo, Samsung to showcase at Tech Demo Africa 2013
Global technology powerhouses, including, Dell, Intel, Lenovo, Samsung, Syspro and SAS will showcase their latest offerings at Tech Demo Afr...
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Teraco, Absa in R200m funding deal
Vendor-neutral data centre operator Teraco Data Environments has secured a R200m medium-term funding facility from Absa’s corporate and in...
LAW Holdings acquires shares in AIS
LAW Holdings recently confirmed its purchase of a controlling stake in Assimilated Information Systems (Pty) Ltd. (AIS).As such the LAW Grou...
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Investors give thumbs up to Seed Engine’s eight tech start-ups
More than 140 potential investors were introduced to eight tech ventures in Seed Engine’s Business Accelerator Programme at its first demo...
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SARU has sights on 2023 RWC
SARU CEO Jurie Roux says the national body is in a good financial state and has plans on bidding to host the 2023 Rugby World Cup. &nbs...
Dangote ‘raises $4bn to build Nigerian refinery’
Nigerian multi-billionaire Aliko Dangote says he has negotiated loans of $4.25bn from banks to build a refinery to help the continent’s la...
“Symbion and many other companies from the United States are ready to invest in Africa.”
Symbion Power and many other companies from the United States are ready to invest in Africa,” says Symbion Power CEO Paul Hinks. “Thes...
Africa’s Top Five: Young Entrepreneurs
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Venter forgoes bonus at Altech
Craig Venter, the CEO of JSE-listed technology group Altech, which recently reported an operating loss of R1,2bn in the year to February 201...
Thinking Differently about Data Centres Previews at Africa’s Leading Forum
Thinking differently about data centres provides the focus for this year’s Datacentre Africa (http://www.datacentreafrica.com), the prem...
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GTBank continues to support Economic Growth and Bilateral relations
Guaranty Trust Bank plc. has continued to promote economic development and entrepreneurship by partnering with the Nigerian and London Stock...
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Cell C, NAPAfrica partner for better Internet
Teraco CEO Lex van Wyk hopes other mobile operators follow Cell C in supporting open peering.
In a move set to......
Mobile landscape changes amid price war
Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig says SA needs aggressive, proactive and intelligent communications regulation.
Smaller players in SA’s dyn...
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