Illegal connections overloaded the electricity grid causing power outages across parts of Johannesburg this week, Eskom said on Friday. Eskom said communities should “refrain from connecting themselves illegally
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he’s enthusiastic about the company’s US$26,2bn acquisition of LinkedIn, viewing it as an opportunity to build a business network for the working world like Facebook has created for
Salesforce.com was a rival potential bidder for LinkedIn in the process leading up to the professional networking website’s acquisition by Microsoft, according to people familiar with the matter. Salesforce was advised by Goldman Sachs in the
Hacktivist group Anonymous Africa said it was attempting to down websites of Gupta-linked media outlets ANN7 and The New Age on Wednesday. Earlier on Wednesday, Anonymous Africa
Oakbay Investments, whose dominant shareholders include the Gupta brothers, has acknowledged that hackers have targeted its websites. Hacktivist group Anonymous Africa said via
Gupta-owned Oakbay Resources and Energy’s share price plummeted by more than 90% on the JSE on Wednesday, the same day that hackers attacked the company’s websites and shut them down, although the two incidents
Naspers, Africa’s biggest company by market value, said it expects to report that full-year earnings rose as much as 20% when one-time items are excluded. The “core headline” figure for the
The South African Social Security Agency, which oversees the payment of welfare grants to more than 16m people, said it will on Wednesday file a criminal case against Grindrod and a unit of Net 1 UEPS
In 2020, four years from now, Internet traffic in Africa and the Middle East will be equivalent to 527 times the volume of the entire Internet in the region in 2005. This is one of the startling findings in the latest edition of the Cisco Visual
The high court in Pretoria has referred the dispute between the previous funders of the “please call me” case and Nkosana Makate over settlement negotiations with Vodacom to arbitration. The ruling