If you keep your Uber driver waiting, you’ll now have to cough up for the privilege. Uber South Africa said on Monday that it is introducing a feature called “paid wait time”, meant to maximise productivity for
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BrandsEye, a company that mines social media to determine people’s view on topics from elections to companies, has found that Capitec is South Africa’s most loved bank among social media users. The annual
Telkom subsidiary BCX has launched a digital learning platform, providing free access to online educational content in the fields of science and technology. Learners, educators, school administrators and
Communications regulator Icasa has concluded an inaugural forum on 5G technologies, ahead of their anticipated introduction in South Africa by the end of the decade. The standards for 5G networks
Hetzner South Africa CEO Hans Wencke has apologised to customers affected by the data breach on the company’s systems this week, saying it is “deeply distressed” by the incident. On Wednesday, the data
Cell C has reported a 12% growth in the number of active subscribers on its network. The company had 15.7m active customers at the end of June 2017, up from 14m a year earlier. At the same time, the mobile operator
All South Africa’s national parks are now on Google’s Street View imaging platform. The company, working with a team of South Africans, has released a large collection of 360-degree imagery from the parks
Cell C will provide free Android television set-top boxes to customers on its C-Fibre broadband Internet service provider, Surie Ramasary, the chief executive for content at Black – the company’s new entertainment and video
Bitcoin climbed past $7 000 for the first time, breaching another milestone less than one month after it tore through the $5 000 mark. Spot pricing for bitcoin climbed as much as 7.1% to a high of $7 045.46 before pulling back slightly
Just months before Microsoft is expected to launch two Azure data centres in South Africa, one in Gauteng and one in Cape Town, Teraco Data Environments, which operates the largest vendor-neutral data