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
Donald Trump was elected the 45th president of the US in a repudiation of the political establishment that jolted financial markets and likely will reorder the nation’s priorities and fundamentally alter America’s
Samsung Electronics took out out full-page newspaper advertisements in the US to apologise for its fire-prone Galaxy Note7 phones, seeking to restore its battered reputation. The message from the world’s
Emerging market stocks and currencies were rocked by early results from the US election that gave Donald Trump a narrow lead over Hillary Clinton. The Mexican peso, a barometer of Trump’s fortunes, tumbled the most in eight years
Business software maker SAP introduced the most significant update to its database software in five years, which includes new tools for analysing the stream of data being created by smart sensors
An influence-peddling scandal shadowing Korean President Park Geun-hye is raising fresh questions about decades of cozy ties between the nation’s big conglomerates and those in power. Successive governments
Move over Mexico. With the US election campaign over, South Africa’s rand has replaced the peso as the currency next in line for the biggest politically driven price swings. The peso, considered a barometer
