Electronics news digest 19 November 2014, Electronic News Digest South Africa
Many were shocked last year when the SABC reported a not insubstantial sum of R100 million in ‘irregular expenditure’ for its 2012/13 financial year. This year, it managed to burn through ...
Read more...Power supply shortform 19 November 2014, Vepac Electronics, Technical Literature MTM Power has released its new bilingual (German/English) product shortform – a 40-page overview of its products and services. The product groups of AC/DC modules, DC/DC converters, 19” power supplies, ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 29 October 2014, News South Africa
Saab has received an order to the value of R74 million for a new defence system that forms part of its euphemistically named ‘softkill’ platform. Developed and made at Saab Grintek Defence ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 8 October 2014, News South Africa
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has been tasked by president Jacob Zuma to investigate irregularities with regards to the conduct of former communications minister Dina Pule and her ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 17 September 2014, Electronic News Digest South Africa
Jasco Power will be supplying failover and protection hardware for another 35 sites as part of Sentech’s rollout of equipment for South Africa’s migration to digital terrestrial television. ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 27 August 2014, News OverseasBusiness
Microchip Technology reported results for the three months ended 30 June 2014, with record consolidated net sales of $528,9 million, up 7,2% sequentially and up 14,3% from the prior ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 6 August 2014, News South Africa
Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) has secured R3,5 billion from a syndicate of lenders made up of banks, financial institutions and development funding agencies, to provide corporate debt financing ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 16 July 2014, Electronic News Digest Africa
Researchers funded by the South African Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project have underlined the importance of the eagerly anticipated antenna array and the credentials of local radio astronomy ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 25 June 2014, News South Africa
The South African Renewable Energy Council (SAREC) has been launched as an umbrella body for all renewable energy industry associations in South Africa, with founder members including ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 4 June 2014, Electronic News Digest South Africa
Altron recently announced its annual results for the year ended 28 February 2014. Revenue increased by 12% to a record high R27,8 billion, normalised earnings before interest, tax, depreciation ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 14 May 2014, News South Africa
Altech has reached an agreement with Itas Services to acquire the remaining equity interest (50% less one ordinary share that it does not already own) in Altech NuPay for a sum of R80 million. ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 23 April 2014, News Southern Africa
Poynting announced unaudited financial results for the six month period ending 31 December 2013. Highlights included an earnings per share (EPS) increase of 68% over the previous half-year ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 2 April 2014, News Africa
Poynting has formally concluded its acquisition of African Union Communications (Aucom). This is Poynting’s first major deal since listing on the JSE, and is expected to more than double the company’s ...
Read more...Electronics news digest 12 March 2014, News Africa
Engen Maths and Science Schools (EMSS), the long-running supplementary tuition programme for matric learners, achieved a 95% national pass rate for last year, beating the national average of 78% ...
