MTN scoops Ask Afrika Icon Brand Award

MTN has won the 2017/2018 Ask Africa Icon Brands Award in the Mobile/Cellular Network Providers, and Internet Service Provider categories for the third year in a row. Icon brands are those that are loved by South Africans across the age, income, race and language...

Youth vote endorses Samsung brand

South Africa’s youth has endorsed Samsung as their brand of choice across the Smartphone, Tablet Devices and Cellular Phone categories, as well as the Platinum Icon Brand of Tomorrow in the Smartphone category in the 2017/18 Ask Afrika Youth Brands Awards. The...

Malware targets taxi, ride-sharing apps

Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a new modification of the well-known mobile banking Trojan, Faketoken, which has been developed and is now able to steal credentials from popular taxi applications. The mobile app market is growing and offering more and more...

Discover Digital buys IKON Interactive CMS

South African on-demand solutions provider, Discover Digital International (DDI), has completed its acquisition of Turkish firm IKON Interactive’s content management solution (CMS) and source code, in a multi-million dollar deal to support its aggressive...

Cell C reshuffles board

Following its recent recapitalisation, Cell C has appointed Kuben Pillay as its new chairman and Larry Nestadt as deputy chairman. “We are honoured to have two of South Africa’s most astute business leaders join the Cell C Board at a time when the company...

Adobe outlines Flash end-of-life plans

Adobe has announced the end-of-life (EOL) for Flash, the once-ubiquitous plug-in that played a pivotal role in bringing video and gaming to the Web. Adobe plans to stop updating and distributing Flash Player at the end of 2020, and is encouraging content creators to...