The rand is stronger against the US dollar than it was a decade ago as a falling dollar and surging gold price lift the local currency.
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Amazon is cutting 16 000 jobs worldwide in the second major round of layoffs at the company in three months.
iCAUR has confirmed it will enter South Africa with 20 dealerships, launching two models and a national support network.
AI wearables are advancing fast, but affordability and functionality will keep smartphones firmly in charge for now.
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MultiChoice Group, the parent of brands such as DStv and SuperSport, has eked out a 5% improvement in subscribers in a difficult six-month trading period.
The power utility will reduce load shedding to stage 2 on Thursday and expects load shedding to be completely lifted by Friday morning.
Key government ministers have reached a broad agreement to sell some of Eskom’s coal-fired power plants to help reduce its debt burden, finance minister Enoch Godongwana said.
Bolt, a rival of Uber’s ride-sharing and food delivery business, plans to focus on Europe and Africa for now, CEO Markus Villig said.
An unnamed investor has proposed stumping up $5-million for a 51% stake in the company, provided criminal proceedings against the Cajees are dropped.
Following a meeting with the CEOs of six of South Africa’s telecommunications infrastructure operators on Monday, Icasa is moving to license access to “provisional spectrum”.
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Facebook users suing over the social network’s worst-ever privacy scandal gained leverage to pry into its internal records to back up their claims that it failed to safeguard their personal data.
WeWork fails on nearly all the criteria which determine whether a tech start-up is likely to be successful in the long term.
Jack Ma is giving up the reins of Alibaba Group after presiding over one of the most spectacular creations of wealth the world has ever seen.
Volkswagen is unwrapping not just new models at the Frankfurt auto show, but a tweaked logo as the world’s biggest car maker ushers in the electric era.
Whatever happened to cracking open Telkom’s last mile of copper cables into homes and businesses to rival broadband operators? The industry regulator has gone silent on the issue, leaving industry players wondering whether local-loop unbundling has quietly been shelved
Kickstarter project BRCK, the brainchild of Kenyan nonprofit technology outfit Ushahidi, hopes to raise $125 000 to build a communications device that connects users to the Internet using any means possible, even when the power is out. And it’s well on its way to achieving its first objective. In little more
