Author: Agency Staff

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejected the idea that fake news on the social network influenced the US presidential election and said echo chambers aren’t really a problem on the site. The company co-founder was responding

The rand slumped the most five years on Thursday, leading global currency declines against the dollar as a global bond selloff worsened amid concern that spending by the Donald Trump administration will fuel inflation

There’s been nothing but trouble for much of Africa as the price of oil plummeted 55% during the past two-and-a-half years. But there’s a brighter side to the sub-Saharan continent. Unlike Nigeria, where oil accounts for more

Local competition authorities have given their thumbs up to the South African leg of a global merger between Microsoft and LinkedIn. In June, software giant Microsoft announced plans to buy professional social network LinkedIn

Twitter can’t seem to go more than a week without a belly flop. The company’s top priority is adding users, but it hasn’t lured many of them. Revenue shifted from perky to pokey. One potential buyer after another ran screaming from

President Jacob Zuma will probably mount a legal challenge to a report by the graft ombudsman that calls for the establishment of a judicial inquiry into allegations that the Gupta family influenced cabinet appointments

America just endured its first presidential election in which the majority of the electorate got its news from social media. And the outcome is already prompting soul searching by the companies that shaped it. Facebook will have to contend with mounting dissatisfaction

The ANC on Wednesday called on public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to investigate her predecessor for releasing details of her interview with President Jacob Zuma. The party wanted to know if Thuli Madonsela acted unethically

The 2016 presidential race was a powerful illustration of the influence that Internet services have to shape the national political conversation. Yet in the end, many of the people involved in technology didn’t get what they wanted

The department of telecommunications & postal services on Wednesday kept mum on whether Telkom would be the preferred bidder to supply and maintain a government broadband project in South Africa. Deputy minister