Women’s groups, tech watchdogs and progressive activists are calling on Google and Apple to remove the apps.
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Oracle has been accused of concealing its need to sell significant additional debt to build out its AI infrastructure.
Fewer learners studying mathematics at school level threatens South Africa’s economic competitiveness.
Investment is pouring into renewable energy, but grid expansion will determine whether momentum can be sustained.
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South Africa’s headline unemployment rate hit a record high of 34.4% in the second quarter from 32.6% in the first three months of the year as businesses shed staff due to Covid-19 lockdowns.
OPay, an Africa-focused digital payment start-up founded by a Chinese entrepreneur, has secured $400-million in its latest funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, valuing it at $2-billion.
Google’s new submarine cable system, Equiano, which will connect Africa and Europe, will make its first landfall later this week – on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic.
Facebook is letting some users make voice and video calls within its main app on a trial basis, aiming to make it easier to place calls without opening its standalone Messenger app.
In a virtual strategy update event on Friday, Standard Bank Group revealed that it plans to cut head office and branch space by as much as a quarter by 2025.
It was only a few weeks ago that some strategists were eyeing a possible drop to $20 000 for bitcoin, months after it had hit an all-time high near $65 000 in April. Now it’s back above $50 000. What happened?
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A senior White House official is seeking to delay putting in place portions of a law that limits the US government’s business with China’s Huawei, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Salesforce.com has agreed to buy Tableau Software in an all-stock deal valued at US$15.3-billion in a major bid to build its analytics offering.
Amazon.com plans to spend billions of dollars building a network of thousands of satellites to provide broadband Internet service, CEO Jeff Bezos said.
Google has agreed to buy Looker Data Sciences for $2.6-billion, expanding its offerings to help customers manage data in the cloud.
Each year, tens of thousands of South Africans find themselves signed up for mobile subscription services that deduct funds from their airtime balances or add costs to their monthly bills without their knowledge. One way to limit the impact of this is to make the sign-up process more difficult, but to date only one
Telkom and its mobile arm 8ta may be sitting in the pound seats when it comes to next-generation wireless broadband thanks to its access to a big chunk of valuable radio frequency spectrum — and the telecommunications operator has signalled it plans to take full advantage of it. Whereas all
