Electronics News Briefs 27 February 2002, News, Electronic News Digest Southern Africa
South African technology company Parsec Holdings, has attracted Treacle Venture Partners as a major investor. Treacle Venture Partners manages a technology venture capital fund. Parsec ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 13 February 2002, News, Electronic News Digest Southern Africa
Siemens has increased its share in Siemens Telecommunications from 51 to 60%. This was done by exercising its call option on 9% of the 21,5% Marconi shareholding acquired in November ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 30 January 2002, News, Electronic News Digest Southern Africa
Dimension Data is rolling out a R1,8 million network infrastructure project to meet the network bandwidth needs of Engen Refinery. Designed as a three-phase approach, it involves the ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 21 November 2001, News, Electronic News Digest Southern Africa
Local IT and telecoms research house, BMI-TechKnowledge, believes the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) exhibition held recently in Midrand is integral to the telecommunications ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 7 November 2001, News, Electronic News Digest Southern Africa
Technology group IST has posted a 480% improvement in earnings at the halfway mark as the turnaround process it initiated last year continued to pay dividends. The company said interim ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 26 September 2001, News, Electronic News Digest Southern Africa
For the fourth year in a row, Grintek has announced excellent results. Headline earnings for the year ended 30 June 2001 increased by 43% to R115,3m. The group's operations generated ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 12 September 2001, News, Electronic News Digest Southern Africa
Grintek Power Technologies has grown sales of its DC power solutions to the telecoms industry from R23m last year to R67m this year. The company has secured new business from Siemens ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 29 August 2001, News, Electronic News Digest Southern Africa
In line with its stated policy of disinvesting from noncore business activities, Spescom has announced the sale, subject to Competition Commission approval, of its 50% shareholding in ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 15 August 2001, News, Electronic News Digest Southern Africa
The Competitions Commission has given the green light to ALSTOM to acquire the assets of Northern Engineering Industries Africa (NEI). In terms of the acquisition agreement, ALSTOM South ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 1 August 2001, News, Electronic News Digest Southern Africa
Eskom has announced its sponsorship of the Expo for Young Scientists which will in future be known as the Eskom Expo for Young Scientists. The sponsorship amounts to over R1m over a period ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 18 July 2001, News, Electronic News Digest Southern Africa
Dimension Data and software partner Software AG are setting up South Africa's first centre of excellence dedicated to XML (eXtensible Markup Language). According to the group the establishment ...
Read more...Electronic News Digest 4 July 2001, News, Electronic News Digest Southern Africa
Siemens Information and Communication Group has been awarded a $221m turnkey supply contract for South Africa's third cellular operator, Cell C. The base contract for the main network ...
Read more...Appointment 4 July 2001, News, Electronic News Digest Louis Ferreira has been appointed as Development Manager - Africa, for Multisource. Ferreira has extensive experience expanding export markets for South African companies and will concentrate on developing ...
Read more...Electronics News Digest 23 May 2001, News, Electronic News Digest Southern Africa
Spescom has reported a 54,6% increase in revenues from R149m, for the corresponding period last year, to R231m for the first half of this financial year, ending 31 March. Net income for ...
