2025 marked a turning point for Cell C, says the company. 2025 marked a turning point for Cell C, with the operator focusing on stabilising its business, strengthening network partnerships and refining its strategy in a highly competitive mobile market. In an e-mail interview with ITWeb, Cell C CEO Jorge Mendes says: “We returned to…
Herotel operates fibre infrastructure. The Competition Tribunal has approved the merger in which Vumatel will acquire control of Herotel. In a statement, the tribunal says it has approved the transaction subject to conditions which address competition and public interest-related concerns. The conditions can be accessed here. Vumatel, already a shareholder in Herotel, is South Africa’s…
Lukas Pelser, Sophos Antivirus software is the thing everybody loves to hate. For many, it’s bloatware. From the moment you turn on your computer, it nags you about updates, scans and pop-ups that feel more like interruptions than protection. For others, it’s forever tied to John McAfee, the software pioneer turned fugitive whose personal life…
Ashlin Govender, DKS The South African logistics market has a mix of global giants like Imperial and DHL, mid-sized regional leaders such as Bidvest and Laser Group, and smaller, specialised local players. This last group focuses on overlooked markets, and tries to address some of the hurdles that often eat into a logistics business’ bottom…
Lungile Mginqi, digital transformation strategist. We convene the boardroom court: IT value is on trial; the accused is narrative − stories offered instead of evidence. The charge: theatre masquerading as business outcomes. Every year, boards approve millions in IT investment. usually with a toolset name attached. Yet the promised business value remains elusive. Too often,…
Ethan Searle, business development director, LanDynamix. The expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) into all areas of business, technology and life generally, is advancing at an exponential pace, which has great benefits to offer but at what cost? While AI fuels innovation and adoption, this development is a double-edged sword because it also amplifies the risks…
Junaid Hussain, head of digital services support at Ricoh South Africa. South African companies are accelerating their digital transformation. For medium to large businesses, digital transformation offers huge gains in efficiency and competitiveness, but it also brings new risks. Every move to the cloud, automation rollout or AI deployment expands the attack surface for cyber…
A constant refrain in the security sector is that everything is an endpoint. If it’s connected to the internet, it’s an endpoint. Endpoints need protection and they’re often neglected. While the criminals who broke into the Louvre in broad daylight in October used prosaic methods, it turns out that the museum’s cyber policies were also…
The Mojaloop Foundation and the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL), in collaboration with Singapore-based ThitsaWorks and The AfricaNenda Foundation, today announces the launch of the Liberian Inclusive Instant Payments System (IIPS), a modern real-time interoperable payments platform powered by Mojaloop, the open-source payments infrastructure built to advance digital financial inclusion. IIPS will principally enable mobile…
1GLOBAL strengthens its partnership with Revolut, expanding the leading neobank’s mobile data plan offering to the Polish market. 1GLOBAL, a technology-driven global mobile communications provider, strengthens its partnership with Revolut, expanding the leading neobank’s mobile data plan offering to the Polish market. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251216769985/en/ By integrating…
