Business leaders are ratcheting up pressure on President Cyril Ramaphosa to re-open the economy more swiftly, warning that the devastation wreaked by a lockdown could exceed damage caused by the pandemic.
Author: Agency Staff
Ever since Donald Trump fired the first shot in the US trade war with China, one technology company has been sitting in the middle, trying to avoid the crossfire.
President Cyril Ramaphosa warned that the coronavirus will be present in the country for at least a year and that infections will rise as lockdown restrictions are eased.
The Covid-19 pandemic likely barely dented Tencent Holdings’ growth. The bigger long-term threat may be the growing posse of challengers to its Internet leadership.
The post-pandemic landscape will be very different. The individual’s autonomy over their data may be lost forever. Our mobiles will keep us safe – by spying on us.
South Africa is drafting a plan to procure an additional 2.5GW of nuclear power capacity within the next five years, according to the department of mineral resources & energy.
Regulators are moving to let US companies participate in technology standards-setting bodies alongside Huawei Technologies, despite the Chinese firm being blacklisted in the US over security concerns.
Elon Musk elaborated on his pledge to sell his homes and most of his possessions, telling comedian Joe Rogan that people are increasingly and wrongly taking a dim view on the existence of billionaires.
The world’s biggest cryptocurrency rallied back above $10 000 ahead of a technical event seen by some as having driven the price higher recently.
Twitch, the online video site popular among gamers, plans to fund a slate of original, unscripted series that would be live and interactive, airing two to three times a week.