Amazon is cutting 16 000 jobs worldwide in the second major round of layoffs at the company in three months.
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Government is seeking to boost local automotive manufacturing while Chinese brands weigh investment versus market risks.
AI wearables are advancing fast, but affordability and functionality will keep smartphones firmly in charge for now.
The Information Regulator reflects on Popia, Paia and why data rights governance must blend legal and technical expertise.
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MTN Group’s shares surged in Johannesburg after it moved a step closer to getting a licence to operate lucrative mobile money services in Nigeria.
Eskom will implement stage-4 load shedding from 2pm on Friday until 5am on Saturday, with the power cuts to continue all weekend.
Telkom has launched prepaid fibre, saying consumers who previously couldn’t apply for a broadband fibre line for credit-vetting reasons can now do so.
Less than three years after terminating its roaming agreement with MTN in favour of a similar arrangement with Vodacom, Telkom is back roaming on the MTN network.
MTN Group has reported a 19.1% improvement in service revenue on the back of strong performances in data and mobile money.
MTN Group plans to proceed with a public offer to sell up to 575 million shares in its Nigerian business.
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The Donald Trump administration slapped tariffs on roughly $110-billion in Chinese imports on Sunday, marking the latest escalation in a trade war that’s inflicting damage across the world economy.
Google’s YouTube has agreed to pay more than $150-million to resolve US allegations that it violated children’s privacy laws, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s account has been hacked, sending racist and vulgar tweets to his 4.2 million followers.
Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing will roll out robo-taxis in Shanghai, letting people hail self-driving cars through their smartphones.
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
