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MTN Group and Telefonica ink strategic partnership
South African headquartered MTN Group and Spain’s Telefónica Group jointly announce the signing of a Strategic Partnership Agreement, which enables both telecommunications operators to work together to benefit from their joint scale, combined expertise and market access. The Strategic Partnership…
Top Google searches for 2015 in Nigeria
Google revealed its annual Zeitgeist, a look at 2015 through the collective eyes of the world on the web, offering a unique perspective on the year’s major events and hottest trends based on searches conducted in South Africa and globally.…
Innovative ICT enables industries to ‘Go Cloud’
Looking at the past and future of technological development, we can see that we have arrived at the threshold of a digital economy that is driving economic transformation in all countries and causing great changes for individuals, businesses, and governments.…
Are organisations struggling to align Hybrid Cloud deployments?
Survey finds Hybrid Cloud adoption is high but mixed messages and disruptive technologies mean IT decision-makers are suffering from clouded vision. The Bunker has published a new report providing compelling insight into Hybrid Cloud adoption, the key factors dictating whether…
Taking a closer look at Google’s Top Searches of 2015 in SA
Google announced its annual Zeitgeist, a look at 2015 through the collective eyes of the world on the web, offering a unique perspective on the year’s major events and hottest trends based on searches conducted in South Africa and globally.…
Ghana: Vodafone launches M-Pesa
Vodafone has extended M-Pesa to Ghana, the 11th Vodafone market across Africa, Asia and Europe to benefit from the mobile money transfer service. The launch of the service, operating in Ghana under the ‘Vodafone Cash’ brand, follows a successful pilot…
Upskilling to reduce unemployment and enhance economic growth
With an unemployment rate of 25%, South Africa is sitting on a largely untapped pool of resources that has the potential to drive economic growth. The problem, says Pitso Kekana, Head of Public Affairs and Corporate Citizenship for Samsung Africa…
Performanta increasing global footprint with Australian expansion
Performanta, a leading South African information security firm, today announced its expansion into Australia with the opening of its office in Sydney. Performanta’s industry-leading team, headed by Chris Pols, Information Security Analyst, will be bringing local support to existing clients…
Liquid Telecom to link Africa to the Middle East
Liquid Sea, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liquid Telecom, has started a project to build a new subsea cable linking Africa to the Middle East with onwards connectivity to Europe. Liquid Telecom Group CEO Nic Rudnick confirmed the Request For Tender…
South Africa: VOD service ShowMax adds download feature
ShowMax, an online VOD streaming service, has implemented a new feature that will allow its user-base to download and watch movies and series while offline. According to the company, this development is of immediate benefit to commuters and people looking…
Telkom inks partnership with Walt Disney Company Africa
Telkom and The Walt Disney Company Africa have partnered to celebrate the release of the highly anticipated film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens (in cinemas nationwide from 16 Dec) with South African consumers. From January 2016, according to the company,…
#Zumamustfall momentum growing on social media
On 10 December 2015 the Hashtag “ZumaMustFall” had sparked social media platform Twitter ablaze. On 11 December 2015 the movement had spread like wild fire to social media platform, Facebook, as various event planning groups titled #ZumaMustFall had been created. With the movement…
Social entrepreneurship is driving growth in Africa and beyond
Entrepreneurs are transforming business models and building new, strategic markets in a way, and at a pace, that large corporations and governments often cannot emulate. Moreover, corporate responsibility ensures sustainability says, Peter Conze, Country Director, German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) South…
Top 7 ways to safeguard your business from cyber criminals
If the 2013 Norton Report on the scale of cyber-crime in South Africa is anything to go by, it is obvious that cyber-crime has reached levels of high proportions in South Africa and any business no matter how small or big cannot afford to turn a blind eye.…
27 year-old wins big at Airtel Nigeria Future Awards 2015
Lily Kudzro, a 27 year-old social entrepreneur, emerged as the winner of the Airtel Nigeria sponsored Prize in Education award at The Future Awards 2015. The young Ghanaian social entrepreneur won the category, which had Cynthia Onwuchuruba from Nigeria and…
#Zumamustfall sets social media ablaze
The Hashtag “ZumaMustFall” has sparked social media platform Twitter ablaze. The uprising of the hashtag came shortly after South African President, Jacob Zuma, had revealed that he had dismissed Finance Minister – Nhlanhla Nene. A position which Nene had only held…
