SA businesses lack focus in mobility spend

South African organisations need to focus on developing mobility strategies that are more attuned to their business goals. This is according to survey commissioned by CA Technologies that interviewed 50 senior South African IT decision-makers during December 2013....

Profit on the rise for Mustek

Mustek has announced an increase in gross profit for the six months ended 31 December 2013, from 13,2% to 14,1%. The group’s headline earnings per ordinary share are up 33%, and it has reported a net asset value of 785 cents per share. Revenue from continuing...

Altron expects big earnings increase

Allied Electronics (Altron) has advised shareholders that its basic earnings per share for the year ending 28 February 2014 are expected to be more than 200% higher as against the previous corresponding period. This increase is predominantly as a result of improved...

Foreign exchange gains to boost MTN earnings

MTN has alerted shareholders that it will have significantly higher earnings for the year ended 31 December 2013. The group expects an increase of between 25% and 30% in headline earnings per share (HEPS) and attributable earnings per a share (EPS) for the year ended...

DoC delivers on most objectives

Since Minister of Communications Yunus Carrim took the reins at the Communications Department just a few months ago, a number of its objectives have been met – and, although there are still goals that need to be reached, there is activity taking place. This was the...

SA to see huge mobile spike

Mobile data traffic in South Africa will enjoy a compound annual growth rate of 53% in the next five years, and will reach an annual run rate of two Exabytes by 2018. According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2013 to 2018,...