Blue Label Telecoms will buy a 45 percent stake in Cell C for R5.5 billion to expand the network of South Africa’s third-largest mobile-phone operator and reduce the target company’s debt.
Slack, the group messaging platform valued at nearly $3 billion, plans to accelerate its growth by spending some of its $250 million cash pile on mass-market advertising.
South Africans will soon have an alternative calling option with the launch of a new mobile operator dubbed ‘me&you’.
Rapelang Rabana, the latest addition to Biznews’ Thought Leaders section, is stoking the fire of SA education with her entrepreneurial project, ReKindle Learning. Read more about her thoughts on education in SA and what she has done to make a success of not only herself, but others too.
Cameroon has renewed the operating licence of Africa’s largest telecoms provider MTN and allowed the firm to start offering third and fourth generation (3G and 4G) services.
In such a world, who would dare to build an empire in radio, the original theatre-of-the-mind medium? The answer is Given Mkhari, the ever-ambitious, ever-upbeat CEO of MSG Afrika Investment Holdings.
Best read of many pieces Biznews published from Davos was my interview with SA’s former Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
Digital money can potentially expand international commerce, support financial inclusion, and transform how we shop
South Africa’s best drivers are to be found in the Western Cape, with Gauteng ranked second overall, according to data from Discovery Insure’s road safety smartphone application. During June, the first month of the campaign 16.8 million kilometres of driving data was collected and analysed. The study has shown that although some 70% of users are male, … Read more
BANGUI (Reuters) – Central African Republic authorities have told mobile phone operators to suspend text messages following calls on services for a nationwide civil disobedience campaign to protest against violence. An organisation called Collectif Centrafrique Debout has been distributing SMS messages since the weekend asking people to stay home starting Thursday following more inter-communal bloodshed … Read more