Heartlines, a values, transformation and upliftment initiative is working to finalise its Forgood channel to inform, connect and inspire South Africans for social action. The Convergence Partners Foundation is a founding partner of Heartlines Forgood social networking platform.
On 15 July 2010, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (“NTT”) Dimension Data Holdings plc (“Dimension Data” or “DiData”) announced that they have reached agreement on the terms of a cash offer to be made by NTT for 100% of Dimension Data. The offer, totalling approximately GBP 2.1 billion (R24.4 billion), was unanimously recommended by both Boards of Directors. Andile Ngcaba, Chairman of Dimension Data’s Middle East and Africa business (“DDMEA”), as well as of its minority shareholder Convergence Partners, is excited about the deal and how its positions DiData in his region. “With access to the resources, products and R&D of the NTT Group, DDMEA is better positioned than ever to grow its presence and capitalise on new and fast growing market opportunities, such as cloud computing. The deal is great for the country and the company”.
Convergence investees SkillPod Media and Integrat have launched their joint mobile games portal, Play4Games.co.za, which supports all the most popular smart phone handsets. The site has been branded as Play4Games and forms part of Integrat’s mobile entertainment brand Play4. The platform makes use of the Integrat High Gate mobile payments platform and the SkillPod Media mobile games platform.
Dimension Data and Convergence Partners Foundation has extended their e-learning program into the Limpopo Province, by establishing an e-learning centre at the Hudson Ntsanwisi School, over the weekend.
Inala Technologies and Convergence Partners Chairman, Andile Ngcaba announced the appointment of Executive Director, Laurentius Human, as Chief Executive Officer of Inala with effect from June 2010. The company, which has grown into one of Africa’s leading Telecommunications and Broadcast systems providers over the past 14 years, is currently represented in 17 African countries and is poised to expand into India, South America, the Middle East, and Turkey.
Dimension Data, the $4 billion IT solutions and services provider, has achieved Global Certification from Cisco. This elite designation recognises Dimension Data as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, deploy and support Cisco® networking solutions around the globe. Dimension Data becomes one of four organisations with this elite status worldwide.
The Technology Top 100 (TT100) awards ceremony was held at Vodaworld last night. Convergence Partners’ investee SkillPod Media was a finalist in the Excellence in the Management of systems category.
New Dawn, the first of its kind joint venture between Convergence Partners and Intelsat, is on track to launch its $250m geostationary communications satellite, which is targeted at the African market, by the end of the year, Flavien Bachabi, vice-president for Intelsat Africa said yesterday, 13 April 2010.
At the ninth annual Metropolitan Oliver Empowerment Awards ceremony held on the 25th March 2010, Dimension Data was awarded the prestigious most empowered ICT company award.
Convergence Partners, together with Altius Investment Holdings, takes a 40% strategic equity stake in Bloodhound Technologies, a leading South African radio frequency identification (RFID) systems and solutions provider.
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