Eskom was able to avoid national rolling blackouts on Thursday evening, but only because there was a reduction in demand and because it made extensive use of emergency generation resources.
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Teraco Data Environments has completed the second and final phase of its massive new data centre, JB3, at its Isando campus in Johannesburg. Here’s what it looks like.
We believe TechCentral’s Duncan McLeod has overlooked key aspects of Telkom’s argument for a fair playing field in the telecoms sector and a pro-consumer approach to regulation and oversight. By Liza Zouabi.
The five-and-a-half-hour outage on the JSE that prevented traders buying and selling stocks until well into the afternoon on Wednesday was not a good signal for a bourse that touts itself as Africa’s finest.
Microsoft will raise prices as much as 20% for a bundle of software called Microsoft 365 that includes popular apps like Teams and Outlook.
South Africa is again on the brink of load shedding after Eskom was forced to take several power generating units off the grid on Thursday.
Facebook on Thursday launched a test of a new virtual-reality remote work app where users of the company’s Oculus Quest 2 headsets can hold meetings as avatar versions of themselves.
The rand, which managed to avoid a major blowout following riots in two of South Africa’s key provinces in July, finally gave way and weakened below the psychological R15 to the US dollar level on Thursday.
More than 90 policy and rights groups around the world published an open letter on Thursday urging Apple to abandon plans for scanning for objectionable material on users’ iPhones.
The investing world is enthralled by a determined Beijing as it cuts China’s private sector down to size by relentless regulatory action. India’s more subtle manoeuvres in the same direction are going largely unnoticed.