Articles by Richard Cutcher, Page 13
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Fri, October 11th, 16:00 · Richard Cutcher
Zapacab goes live in Nairobi
Zapacab, a mobile taxi hailing startup, has launched its first beta phase outside of South Africa in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, beginning operations with a fleet of 30 cars. → Read more
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Fri, October 11th, 11:00 · Richard Cutcher
MainOne secures $100m, joins affordable internet initiative
MainOne, Nigeria’s fibre optic cable company, has agreed a US$100 million financing agreement with four banks which should help it to extend its services. → Read more
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Fri, October 11th, 10:20 · Richard Cutcher
Wilton made permanent CEO at Gijima
South African ICT services company Gijima has made Eileen Wilton its full time chief executive officer (CEO) following a year-long stint as interim. → Read more
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Thu, October 10th, 14:00 · Richard Cutcher
Uber exploring M-Pesa payment integration for Nairobi service
Uber is keen on developing mobile money integration into its taxi hailing app as it prepares to roll out in more African countries. → Read more
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Thu, October 10th, 11:00 · Richard Cutcher
Orange adds UK and Ivory Coast SIM cards to Nashua partnership
Orange Horizons has extended its international roaming products for South Africans travelling abroad through its partnership with Nashua Mobile. → Read more
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Thu, October 10th, 10:20 · Richard Cutcher
Zambia and Zimbabwe are Africa’s “most dynamic” countries – ITU
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has released its tech figures and global rankings, showing Zambia and Zimbabwe making above average progress. → Read more
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Thu, October 10th, 08:00 · Richard Cutcher
Telkom displays highest SA internet speeds
Telkom demonstrated the highest fixed-line and mobile broadband speeds in South Africa at a conference in Johannesburg yesterday. → Read more
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Wed, October 9th, 17:00 · Richard Cutcher
TaxTim adds more functions and universities
South African online tax platform TaxTim has launched its next generation Student Assist programme, targeting those at the country’s top universities. → Read more
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Wed, October 9th, 12:00 · Richard Cutcher
Cell C takes on Vodacom and MTN in competition case
South Africa’s third mobile network operator Cell C has lodged an official complaint against leading operators MTN and Vodacom for anti-competitive behaviour. → Read more
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Wed, October 9th, 08:30 · Richard Cutcher
Airtel Ghana releases portal for online sales
Airtel Ghana has relaunched its online Airtel Money trade portal, allowing customers to buy music, videos and Amazon e-books online. → Read more
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Tue, October 8th, 20:00 · Richard Cutcher
Public transport mobi site launches across SA
FindMyWay, a South African transport information portal, is rolling out to other major cities after a successful beta programme in Cape Town. → Read more
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Tue, October 8th, 17:30 · Richard Cutcher
Telkom predicts rise in earnings for six month period
Telkom is expecting headline earnings per share (HEPS) to increase by more than 20 per cent for the six month period ending September 2013 compared to the same period last year. → Read more
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Tue, October 8th, 12:20 · Richard Cutcher
Alcatel-Lucent to lay off 10,000 workers
Alcatel-Lucent, one of the world’s leading telecommunications equipment makers, has announced a 14 per cent cut in its workforce, amounting to 10,000 job losses. → Read more
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Tue, October 8th, 09:30 · Richard Cutcher
BlackBerry shareholders rebel amid interest from high profile bidders
BlackBerry’s strategic decision to go private is being threatened, despite reported interest from the likes of Cisco, Google and SAP. → Read more
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Tue, October 8th, 09:00 · Richard Cutcher
Egyptian startups unaffected by political turmoil – Cairo Angels
Egyptian investment group Cairo Angels believes the political situation in Egypt has not affected the country’s techpreneurs as much as might have been expected, with companies innovating around the turmoil. → Read more
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Mon, October 7th, 15:00 · Richard Cutcher
Bitcoin drop proves it’s behaving like a real currency – expert
A South African banking and mobile expert believes the recent fluctuations in Bitcoin value further legitimise it as a currency. → Read more
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Mon, October 7th, 12:40 · Richard Cutcher
Knott-Craig Sr praises ICASA’s MTR cuts
Alan Knott-Craig Sr, chief executive officer (CEO) of South Africa’s third network operator Cell C, believes the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has got its reduction of mobile termination rates (MTR) “spot on”. → Read more
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Mon, October 7th, 10:40 · Richard Cutcher
Telkom targets gamers with uncapped offering
Telkom, South Africa’s fixed line provider, is targeting online gamers with an uncapped offer for its SoftCap customers as well as its HomeOffice LTE service. → Read more
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Sun, October 6th, 12:00 · Richard Cutcher
FEATURE: The week in startups 06/10/2013
A South African psychometric startup is hoping to expand to the United Kingdom, having been selected as one of Web Summit’s top 50 Hardest Working Startups. → Read more
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Fri, October 4th, 19:00 · Richard Cutcher
Pepsi and CAF launch prediction app
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has partnered with Pepsi to launch a live game prediction app for the Orange CAF Champions League semi-finals, in collaboration with SPORTFIVE Africa. → Read more
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