MultiChoice Group is in trouble. The pay-television broadcaster on Wednesday reported a big loss for the year ended 31 March 2025 and reported a decline of 1.2 million linear broadcasting subscribers, or 8% year on year. The group now has 14.5m active subscribers, with customer losses evenly split between South Africa and the rest of…
At 21, many young professionals are driven to make an impact in the tech world. However, I’ve learnt throughout the years that the path to success is rarely a straightforward one. The journey takes you through highs and lows before ascending to tech leadership, and there are a few hard-earned lessons I wish I had…
MultiChoice headquarters in Randburg, Johannesburg. Video entertainment company MultiChoice’s woes are persisting with the company continuing to suffer massive losses in revenue and subscribers. This emerged today when the DStv parent company announced its financial results for the year ended 31 March (FY25). In a statement to shareholders on the Stock Exchange News Service, the…
Telkom’s Lunga Siyo Telkom on Tuesday reported a nearly two-thirds leap in full-year earnings and resumed dividend payments for the first time in four years. It also declared a special dividend on the back of the sale of its mast and towers business Swiftnet. According to Lunga Siyo, CEO of Telkom’s consumer business, the turnaround…
Navigating a university campus with a visual impairment is a gargantuan task, one which the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) hopes to alleviate with the provision of assistive technologies. One of the first South African universities to do so, UKZN has provided Envision Smart AI Glasses to five of its students who have visual impairments: Bright…
Lunga Siyo, CEO of Telkom Consumer. Telkom, South Africa’s third-biggest mobile operator, has set its sights on taking the competition to the Vodacom and MTN duopoly. This was the word yesterday from Lunga Siyo, CEO of Telkom Consumer, in an interview with ITWeb after the JSE-listed telecommunications company announced its annual financial results for the…
Qualcomm, the top maker of smartphone processors, is making a bigger push into smart glasses with low-power components that can run artificial intelligence software. The chip maker demonstrated a pair of glasses at the Augmented World Expo trade show that rely on its new Snapdragon AR1+ Gen 1 processor. The idea is to let glasses…
This new feature will soon be released as a new option to users of Google’s search engine in the United States, with no timeline yet for the rest of the world. The company says it will be akin to having a conversation with an expert well versed on a wide range of topics. This is…
Stadio Connect aims to tackle data costs for students and staff. Private higher education provider Stadio has launched Stadio Connect, its own mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) offering. According to a statement, it targets Stadio students and staff, offering low mobile data rates, as well as data-free access to certain Stadio resources. CIO Merwe Roux says…
Mark Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire CEO of Meta Platforms, is setting up a team of experts to achieve so-called “artificial general intelligence” (AGI), or machines that can match or surpass human capabilities, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. Zuckerberg is building the new AI team in tandem with a reported investment of over US$10-billion in…
