Silicon is transforming battery and charging technology, leading to thinner devices, larger capacities and faster charging.
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Apple led the market with a 20% share, the largest among the top five brands, according to Counterpoint Research.
South Africa’s electricity supply has entered 2026 in its strongest position in at least five years, Eskom has said.
China’s AI sector is gaining confidence and risk appetite, but chip-making constraints still blunt ambitions to rival the US.
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Vodafone said it would add nearly 7 000 software engineers to its workforce by 2025 to develop more of its own digital services across Europe and Africa.
MTN South Africa on Thursday unveiled MTN Online School, a free virtual platform offering educational resources for grades R to 12.
A Nigerian tax tribunal has cleared MultiChoice Group to appeal a disputed U$4.4 billion tax bill in the country, according to people familiar with the case.
Bitcoin smashed through its previous record high on Wednesday as the first US bitcoin futures-based exchange-traded fund looked set to open firmer.
A report that Facebook plans to change its corporate name has prompted a flurry of online speculation as industry followers rushed to register their guesses.
Vodacom South Africa is launching Sim cards made from recycled plastic to reduce the harm they cause to the environment.
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Apple’s reliance on China is looking increasingly like its biggest handicap, with the world’s most influential consumer electronics company shedding $44-billion of market value on Friday.
Mark Carney has laid out a radical proposal for an overhaul of the global financial system that would eventually replace the dollar as a reserve currency with a libra-like virtual one.
Huawei Technologies expects US export restrictions to reduce annual revenue at its consumer devices business by about $10-billion.
VMware has agreed to purchase two software companies on Thursday for almost $5-billion, expanding its reach in development tools and cybersecurity.
A thick Australian accent belies the fact that digital agency Quirk’s CEO, 37-year-old Justin Spratt, is a South African and African at heart. “I f***ing love this place,” he says colourfully when I meet with him at the company’s Sandton offices. “I’m exceptionally passionate about Africa in general,” he quickly adds
Crime is threatening to tear apart South Africa’s fledgling fibre-optic telecommunications industry as naked corruption by local government officials, deliberate damage to infrastructure by criminal syndicates and repeated threats of physical violence force sector players to stop building networks in parts of the country that desperately need
