Shoppers demand new ways to pay

Sub-Saharan African consumers see the value of new payment solutions and are demanding more innovative ways to pay, according to MasterCard.

SA-developed drone concept scoops award

Mark van Wyk, a private pilot and entrepreneur from Cape Town, walked away with the first prize at the first AVI Awards for his prototype UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) that will become the first hydrogen powered aircraft fully developed in South Africa.

IS pilots SA-first SDN service

Internet Solutions (IS) has implemented an elastic wide area network ( e-WAN) infrastructure, based on software defined network (SDN) architecture principles, which it is now trialling with a number of clients. Extending its network with an SDN based architecture IS...

Online e-sports set for massive growth

Online e-sports services, such as Twitch, will grow to over 310-million by 2020, increasing from 133-million this year and bringing in almost $1-billion in revenues from subscriptions alone. This is according to new data from Juniper Research, which adds that 2020...

Carbon Tax Bill up for public comment

The National Treasury has published the Draft Carbon Tax Bill for public comment, following on the announcement made by the Minister of Finance in the 2015 Budget.

MultiSource acquisition of WBS goes through

The sale of iBurst and Broadlink parent company WBS Holdings to technology company MultiSource has received final unconditional approval from the Competition Commission and ICASA. This means that MultiSource has now completed the acquisition of WBS. The current...