Africa Bitcoin Corporation is handing a 4% stake in the company to a newly appointed financial adviser.
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The improving currency should help drive down prices for software and hardware, including computers and phones.
Icasa has amended regulations in a move that will materially change how mobile data, voice and SMS bundles work.
Elon Musk’s record on disinformation, power and accountability makes licensing Starlink in South Africa unacceptable.
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South Africa has officially exited the third wave of Covid-19 infections, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said.
Africa’s lack of industrial development puts it in a strong position to develop low-carbon manufacturing, McKinsey & Co said.
Government and some state-owned entities appear to be painting themselves into a corner on the user-pays principle, which government often uses to justify e-tolls.
South Africa’s mining industry has given its backing to moving the economy away from coal but said it must be done gradually and responsibly.
China’s multiyear crackdown on the crypto industry may have reached its apex on Friday, cementing a shift in the balance of power away from one of the countries that first embraced the digital currency world.
Mining companies in South Africa are considering spending as much as R40-billion to construct 2GW of power generation capacity.
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Huawei is planning to cut jobs at its US subsidiary as the Chinese technology giant continues to struggle with its American blacklisting, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint suspended all services after losing about ¥3.5-billion (R445-million) in a hack that involved ripple and other cryptocurrencies.
President Donald Trump on Thursday night warned Facebook over its plan to create a digital currency, the libra, a move that poses a new obstacle to the company’s cryptocurrency ambitions.
Virgin Galactic’s sister company, Virgin Orbit, has conducted a drop test of its air-launched satellite booster over California in a key step towards space missions.
As has become customary at this time of the year, TechCentral is pleased to present its lists of who it considers the biggest technology newsmakers over the past 12 months, both internationally and in South Africa. We kick it off, as always, with the five people the
Pretoria and Cape Town are home to two of the most advanced forensic laboratories in the world, but the biggest limitation to their efficacy is the lack of a national and standardised DNA database. Major-general Adeline Shezi of the South African Police Service’s forensic services division says the country has
