Netflix’s quest to create the first global, online TV network hit a speed bump on Monday when the company said a price increase cut subscriber growth to a three-year low, causing its stock to plummet
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our of the SABC journalists who were suspended or faced disciplinary hearings were fired on Monday, possibly because they approached the labour court, their lawyer said. “We will argue [in the court] on
SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s last bungled staff purge cost the public broadcaster millions, according to a public protector report released in 2014. The SABC this week sacked eight
You’ve heard of Pokémon Go by now, yes? It’s the pervasively viral, madness-inducing, privacy-invading, weirdly alarming, metaphysically destabilizing new mobile-phone game from Niantic. It’s potentially worth $1.8 billion a year. And
SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng allegedly told reporters at a June workshop that they could question anyone in their coverage, except President Jacob Zuma, according to court papers. Eight journalists, dubbed the “SABC 8”, filed an
Traffic police in Cape Town continue to impound cars connected to Internet ride sharing service Uber at record rates, despite attempts to legalise the service in the city. Data from the City of Cape Town reveals that 302 Uber cars were impounded
If Africa’s tech-savvy youth are given their basic needs, it will enable them to change the future, according to Microsoft founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates. Gates was delivering the 14th
Outgoing African Union Commission chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has managed to tick at least two big items off the to-do list she had in her term at the helm of the continental body
SoftBank Group has agreed to buy ARM Holdings for £24,3bn (US$32bn; R460bn), securing a slice of virtually every mobile computing gadget on the planet and future connected devices in the home. The Japanese company is offering £17/share in cash
Science & technology minister Naledi Pandor says with only 16 dishes launched so far, the MeerKAT is already the best of its kind in the southern hemisphere. The minister said this on Saturday when she went to the Square Kilometre Array