Facebook takes $16bn WhatsApp gamble

Facebook has reached a definitive agreement to acquire cross-platform mobile messaging company WhatsApp for a total of about $16-billion. The purchase price includes $4-billion in cash and about $12-billion worth of Facebook shares. The agreement also provides for an...

MWeb aims for national WiFi coverage

MWeb has selected Ruckus Wireless to supply its Smart WiFi products and technology to support a new nationwide wireless broadband public access service, as well as managed enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) services to businesses on its fibre broadband service across...

3D Secure deadline looms for SA merchants

With online fraud being top of the agenda for the Payment Association of South Africa (PASA), the body has taken the decision to make it compulsory for all South African e-commerce merchants to be enrolled in the 3D Secure programme by 28 February 2014. With regards...

SA firm tests new messaging protocol

South Africa’s Flame Computing Enterprises is one of just four global software companies that successfully participated in the world’s first automated test and certification trial for the emerging AS4 Internet messaging protocol. Theo Kramer, chief...

Women still poorly represented in govt

In late 2013, women accounted for slightly more than 21% of the representatives in the lower or popular chambers of national legislatures worldwide, according to the Geneva-based Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). Filling one in five seats of national legislative bodies...

Rectron to distribute Hisense TVs in SA

Television and household appliance vendor Hisense has partnered with Rectron, giving the distributor rights to the full Hisense TV range within the ICT channel – including the new 84-inch UHD TV. “With this being our newest partnership in the channel, we could...