On Friday, 8 April 2016, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched a mission to deliver a spacecraft called Dragon with its payload of supplies and experiments into a trajectory towards the International Space Station (ISS). Most remarkably, the first-stage booster then landed
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It takes a bold person to declare that interstellar travel is now within our grasp. Physicist Stephen Hawking has shown that he is just that, taking part in the Breakthrough Starshot initiative. The project has announced a US$100m research programme to investigate the technology
Acquisitive JSE-listed IT services group EOH has announced it is buying 100% of Aptronics, a company that provides networking, virtualisation, and server and storage infrastructure services to businesses for R194m. The purchase price is payable over two
Giraffe, the South African start-up using technology to help tackle unemployment in South Africa through an automated recruitment service, has announced it has raised a seed round of funding led by Silicon Valley venture firm Omidyar Network. The parties have not
Reunert, the holding company of Nashua, ECN, PanSolutions and other brands, intends using the billions of rand on its balance sheet – including the proceeds of the sale of Nashua Mobile
The SABC is not there to make a profit. Rather, it’s a public broadcaster that serves the people, the corporation’s chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng said on Tuesday. The controversial Motsoeneng, who has survived attempts by the public protector
Google and partner Livity Africa have revealed a programme to train a million young Africans in digital skills in the next 12 months. The companies intend to provide training to
Roads agency Sanral on Tuesday tore strips off the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse, accusing the lobby group of making statements and claims that are both defamatory and actionable
Technology stocks, which outperformed the market in 2015, have had a wobble in 2016, forcing many investors to question whether the high-flying tech sector is facing an implosion of the sort
Open-access fibre telecommunications infrastructure provider DFA (Dark Fibre Africa) has acquired a “significant minority stake” in fibre-to-the-home specialist SA Digital Villages for an undisclosed sum. The transaction will see