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What RIM shake-up means for bruised BlackBerry »
The resignations of Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, co-CEOs of Research in Motion (RIM), are surely intended to restore faith in the BlackBerry brand and to appease shareholders angered by a 75% collapse in the...
January 23 2012 / 5 comments / Read More »
Knott-Craig out to shake up ‘boring’ telecoms sector »
SA’s telecommunications industry has become “a bit boring” and “looks too settled”, says new Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig, who was named on Thursday as Lars Reichelt’s successor at the mobile operator. He appears keen...
January 19 2012 / 3 comments / Read More »
Matt Waddell: how ‘social’ is reinventing Google »
Online social networking is “broken”, Google+ is Google’s attempt to fix this, and the service will change fundamentally all of the Internet giant’s products, from search to YouTube. These are the key messages to come...
January 17 2012 / 3 comments / Read More »News
Banks train their guns on start-up 22seven »
Financial management website 22seven has been live for just a day and already it’s facing its first serious challenge. Some of SA’s big banks...
Jan 27 2012 / 14 comments / Read More »22seven: Nedbank, Standard Bank weigh in »
Standard Bank and Nedbank have finally offered their opinions on online personal financial management (PFM) start-up 22Seven, which has been garnering an enormous amount...
Jan 27 2012 / No comment / Read More »Telkom, KT Corp inch closer to a deal »
Talks between JSE-listed telecommunications group Telkom and Korea’s KT Corp appear to be progressing well. In an update to shareholders on Friday, Telkom says...
Jan 27 2012 / No comment / Read More »Ex-20twenty boss in new financial services venture »
Christo Davel, former head of now-defunct online bank 20twenty, has launched a new online financial services venture called 22seven designed to help people better...
Jan 26 2012 / 11 comments / Read More »S Africans love to chirp on Twitter »
South Africans are the most active tweeters on the African continent, producing twice as many tweets as Kenya, the next most active country. According...
Jan 26 2012 / No comment / Read More »
