New battery factory drives industrialisation, job creation

New battery factory drives industrialisation, job creation

Kathy Gibson reports – Actom has opened a new assembly line for locally-assembled LiFePOâ‚„ battery energy storage systems (BESS). Yesterday, the company also announced that is expanding manufacturing capacity for its high voltage equipment. These moves are...

Soweto wireless wants content to stay local

The Soweto Wireless User Group (SOWUG), a registered non-profit organisation that provides free wireless to residents of Soweto, will go live this month partly thanks to Teraco. SOWUG forms part of a number of development projects facilitated by The Foundation for...

Local cloud providers boost outsourcing

The call centre has evolved from a “transactional” department into a multi-faceted, social hub of customer service excellence and become a true differentiator for the wise business. As customer service requirements have shifted and evolved over the years,...

A local perspective on online classifieds

Felix Erken, MD of Junk Mail Classifieds, looks at the local lessons learned in the online classified space. In the more than 25 years that I have spent doing business, and more particularly in my time at Junk Mail, I have learnt that South Africans are not easily...

Orange invests in Johannesburg

Orange will open a local warehouse to support the sale of products (smartphones, tablets, computers, gadgets and accessories) from its online store in May this year. The warehouse will be located in Sunninghill, in Johannesburg, and will replace London as the service...