Tesla has won a vote of confidence from Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings, whose purchase of a 5% stake boosts Elon Musk’s ambitions to get his mass-market Model 3 electric sedan to buyers this year. Tencent paid about US$1,8bn
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A battle between national security and privacy is brewing. Governments and secret services are asking encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp to allow them access to users’ data. Most recently, in the wake
In the first of several TechCentral podcast interviews diving into cybersecurity issues, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod sat down with Jacques Louw, director and head of cyber defence at MWR InfoSecurity in South Africa
You may have heard about the sword of Damocles, hanging above its target by a single hair. It’s a metaphor often used to describe impending doom, yet this is not the actual meaning. The story goes that
Samsung Electronics has detailed its plans for the millions of Galaxy Note7 smartphones it pulled off shelves when some caught fire last year, including recycling materials and potentially letting customers use them as
From 1 April, it will cost residential consumers 5,3% more per month to lease a phone line from Telkom. Line rental will increase from R189 to R199/month on that date. Meanwhile, a residential telephone line installation rises by
Telkom plans to break out its telecommunications towers and real estate assets into a separate unit that may then be listed on a stock market, according to two people familiar with the matter. The new entity would be run by a new, property-focused
Former MTN South Africa CEO Zunaid Bulbulia has been appointed as chief financial officer of Huge Group with immediate effect. Bulbulia, who joined Huge Group in January 2016 as a nonexecutive director, is also
One year ago this week, Elon Musk took to a stage to unveil his most important vehicle yet: the US$35 000 Model 3. The electric five-seater accelerates as fast as the the best-selling luxury sport sedans in America
Growth in the shipment of feature phones is outstripping smartphone shipment growth, according to new research. International Data Corp said on Monday that the continent’s smartphone market totalled 95,3m units in