Africa’s mobile phone operators are ramping up plans to bring banking to millions of Africans, in some cases for the first time, after the coronavirus crisis caused a surge in use of digital financial services.
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Five years after it arrived in Africa, Netflix is struggling to grow beyond the wealthiest segment of the population, held back by poverty, piracy and limited access to broadband.
The number of employed people in South Africa dropped by 2.2 million to 14.1 million in the second quarter, according to a report from Statistics South Africa.
South Africa plans to tap global appetite for green bonds to help fund an infrastructure programme worth as much as R2.3-trillion over the next decade.
Google has sought to rebut criticism that it selectively enforces its 30% mobile app store tax, demanding that the over 3% apps selling digital items without complying follow the rules within a year.
Flightradar24.com, the popular flight-tracking website, is experiencing “sustained attacks” on its system and remains unavailable for users as engineers try to fix the issue.
US President Donald Trump’s administration is maintaining pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel to exclude Huawei from Germany’s 5G networks.
Microsoft unveiled a new cloud platform on Monday aimed at enabling telecommunications operators to build 5G networks faster, reduce costs and sell customised services to business clients.
South Africa is forecast to set an unwelcome world record this week when the statistics agency is predicted to report unemployment rose to a record 34.8% in the second quarter.
A US judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration order that was set to bar Apple and Google from offering Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok for download on Sunday.